Category: Be Brave

If your heart needs to be encouraged, be an encourager to others. What you give out will immediately come back and fill you up.

I grew up being told, “Believe in yourself” and “Don’t be a follower.” I wasn’t supposed to jump off the bridge when all the other cool kids did, I was supposed to use good judgement and think for myself.

When it comes to Jesus, the rules of the world are flipped. We are not to believe in ourselves, but in the ... Read More

I was confiding to a friend recently that sometimes I get fearful for the future. She wisely and gently reminded me to choose faith over fear with these words: God doesn’t give us grace for what may or may not happen tomorrow or the next day or the day after that, but He does give us all the grace we ... Read More

God, I pray for your perspective. Allow me to see the trials of this life as you see them. Allow me to see the people surrounding me as you see them. Allow me to see both my abilities and my responsibilities as you see them. Amen.

If you want proof that God exists, each night write down one act of kindness someone bestowed upon you that day. By the end of the year, you will have documentation of the many ways God works through people to show you His love.

I’ve decided I need to begin humbling myself before the Lord… now, if I could just stop thinking of myself long enough to figure out what that means I’d be in great shape!

We may not know how our loving kindness will affect the dark places of the world, but we can be assured that its impact will be tremendous and more important than we could ever imagine.

“The light disturbs the wicked and stops the arm that is raised in violence.” (God talking to Job) -Job 38:15

Do you tell yourself every day that you are smart, beautiful and strong? Or do you have problems extending kindness to the person you see in the mirror?

I happen to believe that you should never say things to yourself that you wouldn’t say to a friend. To criticize the creation is to criticize the Creator.

Nothing clears up the post holiday blues like waking up and deciding to bless someone with kindness.

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do, so throw off the bow lines, sail away from safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, Dream, Discover.” –Mark Twain