Tag: balance

  • Marked: Bright and Beautiful

    I was watching my girlfriend’s children for the day while she recovered from surgery when she suddenly slipped into a coma. Three of her four children were the same ages as my two boys. She had twins in preschool with Billy, and her oldest was in 4th grade with Andrew, she also had a 2nd…

  • Balancing Confidence Conflicts

    Have you ever been thrown off balance by a distorted understanding of truth? It’s easy to take one side of the truth or the other and blow it out of proportion. When we believe a distorted truth, we can be left off balance and confused … and it is not beautiful to live a  stressed…

  • Some Rules of Illusions

    Confidence is freedom from self-consciousness and the joy of others-consciousness. For us women, that freedom is found more easily if we fell like we are lookin’ good, wouldn’t you agree? Find your freedom by learning how to look your best everyday without thinking about it any more! Ideally, you want your outfit to hang well…

  • What Not To Wear

    I’ve said it, and I’m sure you have too: “I have nothing to wear.” My husband responds to my whining like he does when our teens say,  “there’s nothing to do!” He laughs and says “oh, of course not.” After a number of changes in attire I immerge from the closet and Ron will respond,…

  • Clean and Beautiful

    Matthew 23: 25- 27 “What sorrow awaits you teachers of religious law and you Pharisees. Hypocrites! For you are so careful to clean the outside of the cup and the dish, but inside you are filthy—full of greed and self-indulgence! You blind Pharisee! First wash the inside of the cup and the dish, and then the outside…

  • Beauty in Balance

    God is a God of balance. He wants us to be a people of balance in all areas of our lives – even in the area of beauty. When we walk in balance, we walk in great peace and joy. Our enemy is no fool, he knows that, and he does not want us walking…

  • The Great Pursuit

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    This Tuesday’s Tip? You can find it in both Psalms 34:14 and 1 Peter 3:11: Seek Peace and Pursue it.  it’s a phrase I’ve come to love and use often to encourage others with when they are doing too much. I figure anything God repeats in His Word is worth repeating to each other.  …

  • The Law of Balance

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    Can we talk a little bit more about “Jesus the Time Manager”? It seems to me that knowing we need to engage more in other people’s lives is not enough; we need to know how to develop the skills it takes to listen and care for them. Not that I think caring for others is…