Issac Newton said, “For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.” If only that weren’t so. Too many times we formulate plans that we simply love. What we don’t necessarily love are the consequences that come along with those plans. Sometimes those consequences can be real spoilers, so we do everything we can do to avoid them, deny … [Read more...]

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Sometimes life is simply about fighting the battle. We succumb not to the battle, but to the sense that life is nothing but a battle. Too often we choose to contemplate the battle, analyze the battle, and become engrossed in all the many and varied aspects of the battle. And we become lost in this incessant process of contemplation when maybe we … [Read more...]

We need not define discouragement. We’ve all experienced it sufficiently to understand it in all of its many variant and rather dark forms. Discouragement has come our way, and it will come our way again. Sometimes it’s rather diminutive, passive and rather soft. At other times it’s monstrous and entirely debilitating. In whatever way it comes, it … [Read more...]

We fight or we flee. Sometimes it’s one, and sometimes it’s the other. At times we can explain the choice that we made, and at other times we have no idea at all why we made whatever choice we made. We can stand tall and fight and be entirely uncertain why we’re doing that at all. Or we can be running away in a blind panic and not be certain why … [Read more...]