For some, Mother’s Day comes full of rich memories and wonderfully cherished moments.  For others, it arrives with something far less meaningful and far more painful.  However it comes, we all have a Mother.  And the nature of our relationship with our Mother’s varies immensely.  Regardless of the nature or state of it, there is within each of us a … [Read more...]

Over the years I have been privileged to write an extensive array of books, articles, blogs and quotes.  During special times of the year, I search these writings for quotes to both enrich and enlarge our celebration of that particular season. For Mother's Day, I have selected a handful of quotations that express the power, importance and wonder … [Read more...]

Over his many years as a counselor, life coach, pastor and author, Craig has written an extensive array of quotes outlining the critically important role of a mother in the life of a child.  To enhance the celebration of Mother’s Day, he has carefully chosen a selection of these quotes to share with his readers.  It is Craig’s hope that these … [Read more...]

An unknown author wrote, “Real treasure lies not in what that can be seen, but what cannot be seen.”  We possess this strangely cockeyed perception that we must be able to see something in order to treasure it.  More than that, we think that we have to be able to somehow hold it in our hands.  And then, in far too many cases we think we have to be … [Read more...]

The desperate need for prayer in our world can hardly be understated.  It is the invincible porthole that grants us access to the halls of heaven and the throne of God.  It is the hope for this world of ours as the solutions of men are simply that…of men.  And since men have crafted the devastation and darkness that lays thick and dense around us, … [Read more...]

Too often we are repetitively reactionary and little more.  Life becomes something more of obligatory duty rather than gifted privilege.  Our days become stale, methodical routines that hammer out another empty twenty-four hours on the incessant assembly line of our lives, rather than being an astonishing adventure that could peel off in … [Read more...]

Isaac Newton's Third Law states that “for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.”  Or more simply put for the lay-people among us, there’s a consequence to the stuff that we do.  We all know that.  Norman Cousins wrote that “a human being fashions his consequences as surely as he fashions his goods or his … [Read more...]

What we want is opposite of what we have.  We want world peace, but instead we are beset with world chaos.  We want the hungry fed, but millions go hungry and millions more die from that very hunger.  We want medical cures to the diseases that ravage lives, families and nations, but untold thousands perish hourly.  We want communities that are free … [Read more...]

There is that exhilaratingly incessant drive within us, that unidentified but entirely electrifying spark, that rogue passion that is part of us but whose larger part is so expansive that it seems not to be part of us at all.  There are feelings that completely defy our capacity to create, but not our ability to feel.  There is a seemingly … [Read more...]

Easter is an incredibly rich time.  It is a reminder of the fact we are terribly fallen, but it is a far, far greater reminder of the phenomenal opportunity we have of being restored.  It is inconceivable that God would die on a cross and rise again. Despite our depravity, that death was indeed solely for us.  That is both the striking message and … [Read more...]