Live for Others

Raise your actions to the standard of your beliefs. At a dinner recently, a guy about to have his first child asked a group of more seasoned parents, “what is your number one parenting lesson?” As great wisdom was being gleaned from the parents, one man didn’t share a principle but rather an action. “Every…

Father’s Day. A day to honor dads. Everywhere you look today, you will see messages about the perfect dad. It is an awesome thing to celebrate dads, and so needed. But, every dad that reads those messages about themselves or others, recognizes their own personal gaps. No matter how proud, they recognize the imperfections. They…

The girl at the coffee shop was wearing green tinted contacts, turning her eyes into a deep, unreal color. She had veiled her eyes, masked the real color, changing the appearance. Shakespeare called the eyes the “windows to your soul.” Just like the girl at the coffee shop, we mask these “windows to our souls”…

Headwaters form massive rivers. The headwater of the Mississippi River, flowing 2,340 miles, is found in Itasca State Park in Minnesota, an 18-foot, knee deep pool of water. The source creates a massive river full of momentum, full of impact, full of life. Ever consider the headwater of your life, your source? What creates the…

A quick guide for a great day. Be the light of the world. Let others see you and look up. Forgive others. Let forgiveness be at the tip of your tongue. Do not be angry at others, it does no good. Keep your word. Simply do what you say you will do. Love all, even…

Matthew 23:13-15 – “But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you shut the kingdom of heaven in people’s faces. For you neither enter yourselves nor allow those who would enter to go in. Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you travel across sea and land to make a single proselyte, and…