A Carrot, An Egg, A Coffee Bean

When life throws you in hot water, you can choose to be a carrot, an egg, or a coffee bean.
A carrot becomes soft and pliable, giving in to the adversity, giving up.
The egg hardens and refuses to confrom.
The coffee bean, however, turns the water into a steaming, flavorful drink.
When adversity strikes, choose to make coffee.
 
Rosamary [...]

One Nation Under You – A Prayer For This Country

One Nation Under You
By Jim Ramsey
 
 
Rain mercy on this nation God
Though most Your love deny
Not everyone can see Your truth
On self they do rely
 
This country started long ago
One nation under You
The faith that built this land so strong
Has somehow gone askew
 
The evil one has gained much ground
Our government we doubt
We pray our leaders hear your [...]

The Joy of Being Attacked by Satan

Over the last few weeks my beautuful wife and I have had a continuing conversation about something that we cant seem to fully understand.
Why does life seem like a neverending series of crises for some people, and a walk in a rose filled park for others?
It can be said that the people walking through the [...]

Pink Vitamin February 14: Be Not A Slave to Your Own Past

 ”Be not the slave of your own past. Plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep and swim far, so you shall come back with self-respect, with new power, with an advanced experience that shall explain and overlook the old.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson
I copied this from the Word Ferret blog at http://elizadashwood.wordpress.com/  and I thought it [...]

Daily Vitamin 1/8/08

Do This in Remembrance of Me
I took communion for the first time in April of 1974, and over the years I have gone through various phases of “remembrance”. From overwhelming emotions to going through the motions. In thirty-odd years I have been from one end of the spectrum to the other, but in the summer [...]

1-2 Pink Vitamin: Weight Loss

 Weight Loss
Were the holidays good to you? Are you wearing more than the sweater from Uncle Fred? Here is a sure-fire weight loss strategy guaranteed to take pounds off immediately, if not sooner.
Forgive Yourself! Then forget it.
God has forgiven you, but better even than that, God has forgotten about what He forgave!
Jim gently reminded me [...]

Pink Vitamin December 13, 2007:Selfishness

 Selfishness
I don’t usually write while in the bathroom. Multitasking has its place but there are limits. Today, however was an exception. The faculty bathroom in this New Mexico school was probably decorated by the design team of Southern Living magazine. In the bathroom was one of those Sentiment-of-the-Day calendars. Probably everyone wondered why I left the bathroom, [...]

Pink Vitamin: November 15, 2007

 Discouragement
I am occasionally discouraged. Are you? Do you or I ever feel “blah”? Do you or I ever bring discouragement to others or become their “buzz kill”? Do you or I make a room better upon our exit?
Definitions of discourage, say it is “to cause someone to lose confidence or enthusiasm” and “to cause to [...]