It was the first wake up of the day that sprang up the desire to becoming more than what was on the surface. A lot of people, myself inclusive have lived a life behind other’s shadows long enough that they have lost the thirst of being what they have been called to be.

Poetry can be a medicine that heals and sustains. Everyone had their own way of surviving. Some people escape from circumstances in their lives by drinking, doing drugs, falling into depression, and many other things, not knowing that there is a healthier way out and most importantly, seeing hope, peace and light at the end! I survived with everyday life problems by reading and writing poetry. Poetry is a form of expression. Poetry can touch your heart and soul forever making a change in y...

Get out of your own way and (re)connect to your intuition!Get Out of Your Own Way: A 31-Day Tarot Challenge for Writers and Other Creatives is the perfect tool to understand your creative process, and to help you tune in to your soul’s calling.Get Out of Your Own Way walks you through thirty-one days of questions that will help you unravel:Your fears and desires around creativityYour creative strengthsYour...

God Is LoveWe can’t separate this idea of giving ourselves over to the demands of love from our relationship with God and our expressions of Christian faith, because God is love. I hear people quote all the time from the gospel of John where Jesus tells his disciples that if they love him, they should obey his commands. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard that passage quoted as a way of telling people that they should follow all the rules. I think that completely misses the ...

This full-color, giftable book from Mark Batterson (Whisper, In the Pit with a Lion on a Snowy Day) contains inspiring quotes from his New York Times bestselling The Circle Maker paired with vibrant, full-page photography that together encourage you to dream big, pray hard, and embrace your God-given desires.What impossibly big dream has God given you?We all have future hopes planted in our hearts, but making those dreams a realit...

One of the most important skills that you have to learn in life is conflict resolution – how to resolve conflict and how to restore or reconcile a broken relationship. But here’s the problem, nobody taught you how to do it. You certainly didn’t learn it from your parents. You never have a class in school that taught you how to resolve conflicts. And yet this is one of the most important skills to your happiness in life.

All of life is made up of choices we make and the consequences that follow. Most choices we make are out of personal preference and the consequences are known to us from previous experience. Others are harder to decide on because the outcome affects those we love as well as ourselves. Then there are choices we make that could change everything, the whole direction of our lives and future.The ones we wish we could have someone else decide for us. Some choices could be a matter of life or de...

A child with all the promise a parent could hope for becomes a severe addict. A father pulls out all the stops to help him, oftentimes at the emotional expense of the rest of his family. Ups and downs, good times and bad, with lots of tears and prayers in between. Searching for somethinganythingthat might make a difference. In the end, all seems lost. My child, my son, lost his life to drug addiction. No one can comprehend the pain unless they have experienced it themselves. There is a hol...

Working with difference-that is what rhythm is. However, creating synergy can be messy especially when the disconnect is within yourself just as much as you see it in others. Here, two beings will attempt to be together despite the complexities pulling them apart...this is a tale about how such beings learned to dance instead of fall.

Life is a mixture of experiences - some sweet and some bitter. The Bible abounds in examples and stories of people, and it tells us that without faith we can never please God. We must learn how to trust Him, and trust is developed in private, but it's always shown up in difficult experiences we have in life. So difficulties are an opportunity for us to grow because they reveal our heart condition

God will take care of you no matter how dark or turbulent your life might appear to be now.  There is a higher power or source, which can and will take you through.  When you have tried everything else and nothing seems to be working out for you, then I recommend that you try God.  Let God fix it for you.  God can do what no other power can do.  He can touch and heal your body when all else fails....

In this book I wrote a formula for answered prayer. When I used this formula and followed all fourteen steps religiously, everything I prayed for came to me in fives in a month and a half!