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3 Ways To Live An Impactful Life pt. 2

If you knew you had  “X” number of days to live, what would you differently? How can we maximize today, knowing that tomorrow is not promised us? In the last post, we discussed how to live a more impactful life by focusing on people. This post is the 2nd post in this 3 part series. There is nothing more disappointing and frustrating than giving my daughters instructions, have them acknowledge the instructions and later come to find out, they failed to...

3 Ways To Live An Impactful Life

The average life expectancy in America is 78.8 years old, but we are all aware that everyone may not get that length of years. This past week, a young, vivacious, loving and beautiful individual passed away unexpectedly and my heart was heavy.  I literally saw and spoke to her on Sunday and got the news of her death a couple of days later.  This really had me thinking about the fragility of life and how we tend to take life...

Are You Really Ready For Something New?

My daughter received a pair of black boots for her birthday a few years ago. She literally wore those boots to school, to church, on the weekends, whenever she was asked to put on shoes. It wasn’t long before there was evidence of wear and tear on the boots. It started with the ends of the strings unraveling and then the heels  and eventually, the soles of the shoes started to fall apart. We replaced the laces eventually, but after...

3 Things To Do When You Don’t Know What To Do

This situation is all too familiar to me: Someone I love dearly is sharing with me a painful experience, or telling me about struggles that she currently faces. The problem is that I have no words to that can bring comfort or healing because this situation is new and while I can only imagine what it feels like to be in that particular situation or deal with that particular issue, I really have no idea and my imagination probably will not...

4 Ways To Be More Aware of God’s Presence

In Psalm 46:10, the psalmist reminds us that God wants us to be still and know that He is God. If you are like me, it’s hard to just be still. I can only go so long and then I feel like I need to be on the move, I need to be doing something, anything. A sense of guilt sometimes overtakes me if I am not engaged in something for a significant amount of time.  My mind starts to...

Where He Leads Me

I use my GPS app to go just about everywhere, especially on weekdays when traffic can be unpredictable. Sometimes I use my GPS because I do not know where I am going, but I also use it to determine if there is a better route that will get me there based on the conditions of traffic. Yesterday, I put in the address to the destination I have been traveling to all week. The GPS directed me to take a route...