Taking It to Work: Just out of school, I was happy for my job. I did my best for my bosses along the way, but the high expectations that came with senior responsibility, company growth and eventually retirement planning were not near as important as they have become lately. Similarly, Read more
Taking It to Work: I remember my grandfather telling me that it was very easy for him to quit smoking. He said he had done it a hundred times. Well, the New Year’s resolutions are coming. If stats are right, about forty percent of us will have at least one Read more
Taking It to Work: Our God is a God of order. Look at His creation. There is order in everything around us. We can look out to the farthest reaches of space, and then look in our own backyard, and order is all we see. The entire cosmos works together Read more
Listening to the Holy Spirit: How many years have I given My grace and mercy to you? Still you grow short with those slow, even as you are slow to change. My hand is upon you, leaving you never. I tarry, that you would one day shed the ways of Read more
Listening to the Holy Spirit: The young tree does not produce, for the keeper of the orchard removes the flower. Too soon a heavy crop, and the bough is damaged without repair. The keeper knows the proper season in the proper year. Do not grow impatient for what will be Read more
Listening to the Holy Spirit: The carpenter has the tools of a carpenter; the stone cutter, those of a stone cutter. What tools then do you take for My work? Tools of skill are the requirements of the workplace. Strength of mind and hand bring the wage. Time invested that Read more
Listening to the Holy Spirit: A tree planted by a stream gives much fruit. Even in drought, it fears not, and bears much. The fruit is abundant because its needs are forever met. It bears so much that it casts some of its harvest without thought, for there is plenty. Read more
Listening to the Holy Spirit: My ways are not your ways. I give to you precepts of my laws that you might prosper in the life I have granted you. My love is given in law. My creation abides by My law, and all who obey live in My blessing. Read more
In the workplace there are many. You are of the many, but also the few, for as the flowering tree stands among those with none, it raises the eye of all who pass, for its beauty surpasses. In the gazing, the passerby is blessed, as the seed of its flower Read more
To he who walks without counsel, it is he who will find only a close, but barren field. The wanderer knows not his way, and seeks no counsel. He starts with fervor but wanes with doubt. Tossed to-and-fro by wind and waves, lost and without fruit for the wandering, he Read more