The alarm drums loudly and I awaken immediately to feel a sense of dread bubbling up in my spirit. With my first awareness of breath, I let out a heavy sigh and roll over for another 10 minutes. The cycle is the same each and every week as if I'm living the line from one of my favorite movies (Kate & Leopold), "I don't want it to be Sunday...Sunday is the day before the day I work, so it gets poisoned. Sunday's have a sort of heaviness to them. For me, they signal an end to losing track of time and living the weekend on a whim. As much as I love my job, it's difficult to not let Monday creep into Sunday. Maybe you feel the same. It's no fun to let tomorrow rob us of all that's waiting for us to experience today. A few years ago I decided I didn't want to keep feeling this way. I Continue Reading
When You’ve Had It Up To Here With Fear-4 Essentials to Courageous Living
Have you ever just had it up to here with fear? Wish you could find the sweet spot of courageous living and stay there? It busts open the heart walls with no invite and pounces on every rational thought. Catching us off guard before we ever have a chance to build our defense. Like a bully, it puffs its chest and blusters of strength and power greater than our own. And it threatens to steal every ounce of dignity we possess…because it can. I don’t know about you, but I’m over it! I’m tired of being held hostage by something that really has no power to demand the final word over my day or over my life or my dreams. I’m tired of the same bullying lies tormenting my heart~ You don’t have what it takes. You’re too ordinary. It’s too hard, not for you. It will never work. What if you Continue Reading