If you need some motivation and a kick in the pants, this book is for you. It has go get ’em, conquer the world, quit slackin’ energy. Some of us need that. I, however, did not. Rhinoceros Success came into my house several years ago (I think through a Ramsey Solutions book sale and myContinue reading “Book Review: Rhinoceros Success”
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Book Review: Unrelenting Grace
United Methodist people long to love God and serve their neighbors. Unrelenting Grace by Bishop Ken Carter shows us how to come together and embrace grace, seek holiness, and build meaningful connections promoting strength and healing. Unrelenting Grace evokes insights and courage to overcome feelings of isolation, loneliness, and alienation. Amazon book description Unrelenting Grace was a good book.Continue reading “Book Review: Unrelenting Grace”
2023 Mid-Year Goal Update
That is the story I want my brain to tell myself. Even though I haven’t done what I hoped to do, I can take my own advice and take a moment to BREATHE.
Book Review: The Noticer
One a recent Sabbath day, I needed something easy and light to read. I needed a story and something that wasn’t too long. So I picked up The Noticer. I am so glad I did! It took me two Sabbath days to read, not because it is long, but because I got distracted with other things. The story is engaging, thoughtful, and with a moral compass.
Cleaning Up
When the breaking was done, I grabbed a broom as others started picking up the bigger pieces. As I swept, a whole host of emotions unexpectedly rose within me. The cleaning up part seems harder, takes longer, has more potential for getting unexpectedly hurt.
Book Review: Simple Living
For many years now, I’ve been on a journey of trying to live with less and reduce my consumption footprint on the world. At times, I’ve tried too hard, ultimately giving myself more work to do than I can and making everyone around me mad. Other times, I once again get caught up in wantingContinue reading “Book Review: Simple Living”
It Is Well With My Soul
Horatio Spafford had a choice. He could respond with anger and rage and turn his back on God. And maybe at some point those emotions crossed his heart. The legacy he leaves behind, however, is a response based on his deep faith. He responded in a way that lives out a knowing of Jesus’ words in John 14:27 “Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled, and do not let them be afraid.”
Perspective
Time in the woods is always healing for me. I took a familiar path down the trail, off the trail, and by the stream. This time I saw something new.
Book Review: Organizing Your Day
I’m always looking for a way to get more out of my day. More out of the time I have available to me. Ways to be more productive or time efficient. I’m not exactly sure how I came across this book, but Organizing Your Day by Sandra Felton and Marsha Sims ended up at theContinue reading “Book Review: Organizing Your Day”
Go Back to Go Forward
We’re doing the best we know how to do. We take the cards we are dealt and do the best we can. And some of us have been dealt some pretty crappy cards. Some of us have personal and extended family histories that include abuse, extreme poverty, infidelity, divorce, addiction, emotional abandonment, family secrets, untimely deaths, crime, instability, and a whole host of other stories. Our family stories influence who we are and how we are in the world.
And they do not have to define us.
Rev. Kris Mares 