Category: perseverance

God made us competent and able

April 28, 2007 | 6 comments

Have you ever felt like there was one activity in life that you were totally incompetent at? That if someone insisted you do it, you would automatically reply, “Oh, I can’t do that,” and you wouldn’t even try? I’ve been

Feeling the Spirit, conquering depression

March 17, 2007 | 3 comments

I was reading an article in the March 2007 Men’s Journal titled, “Anderson Cooper’s Private War,” which reports on what motivates Cooper to cover the life and death stories he often brings to his audience’s attention. The aftermath of Hurricane

A higher perspective on troubles

January 25, 2007 | 4 comments

Have you ever made great spiritual leaps forward then suddenly hit a brick wall that gave you grief or got side-swiped by an unexpected problem and then wondered why the trouble? “I was making so much progress,” refrains a common

Goals worth pursuing

January 8, 2007 | 3 comments

I had a very enjoyable time this weekend getting obliterated in a doubles tennis tournament by some opponents far superior in tennis talent than to me and my partner. Let me explain… It was the Deep Freeze Doubles Tournament in

Go higher

January 4, 2007 | 1 comment

Someone asked me yesterday, “How do you conquer reappearing fear?” I replied, “Go higher!” I explained that fear is a limited view of spiritual reality. As the familiar acronym states, False Evidence Appearing Real Take in the true evidence and