Category: Forgiveness

  • Health: What’s In Your Bookbag- Emotional Baggage

    Health: What’s In Your Bookbag- Emotional Baggage

    Today I am writing about your bookbag, your purse, your wallet, your gym bag of whatever it is you carry around with you day to day.  This bag is filled with all the stuff you need for the day to function like a phone charger, some snacks, bottle of water, clothes, laptop and all the…

  • Health: Physical, Mental and Spiritual Impact of Tragedy

    Today I am writing a brief post about one of the hardest times in my life.  I was coaching at a local high school and halfway through the season our head coach and my good friend passed away suddenly and unexpected.  This was a huge loss for his family, students, athletes and the community as…

  • Relationships: Showing Empathy During Tough Conversations Builds Bridges

    Today I am talking about having a tough conversation with people and how being empathetic and showing you respect and care about what they are saying goes a long ways to building a bridge that can help you gain some type of agreement.  That agreement may be to agree, disagree or table the topic but…

  • Relationships: Dump Them Now- Five Signs To Avoid In A New Relationship

    Relationships: Dump Them Now- Five Signs To Avoid In A New Relationship

    Today I am writing about toxic relationships and how they can destroy families, friendships, marriages and cause chaos.  I have been fortunate in my life to find a loving and wonderful wife that seeks a great relationship with me.  We get along mostly, disagree at times, but in the end we are together and strong. …

  • Daily Bread: Cleansing Activity- Closing the Doors of Our Past

    Daily Bread: Cleansing Activity- Closing the Doors of Our Past

    **Please Read All of this top to bottom and try what I have given you.  I promise it will help you (if you are open to cleansing) and really focus on it.  I would appreciate any feedback on the process and any comments that you would like to leave for me and my readers**.   Today…

  • Parenting: Women Have Super Powers

    Today I am writing about woman and their super powers.  I am writing this in honor of my wonderful talented and beautiful wife Cindy and daughters Taylor and Brooke.  Women are super at being assertive, empathetic, powerful, fabulous, beautiful, caring, loving, inspired, hard working, dedicated, disciplined, healing, forgiving, courageous, adaptable and so many other traits…

  • Americana: Polly and Beona- Two Peas in a Pod

    Americana: Polly and Beona- Two Peas in a Pod

    Sisterly Love- My mom and her older sister, my Aunt Beona were two of the most wonderful people one could ever know.  My family, immediate friends and so many others were touched by these ladies in so many ways.  Both of these wonderful ladies have went on to be with God and I know they…

  • Relationships: Conflict Resolution vs. Conflict Escalation

    Relationships: Conflict Resolution vs. Conflict Escalation

    This week I have been working with my students in class on social emotional skills to help them grow their ability to get along better with peers at school, online and at home.  As a veteran teacher I have seen my fair share of conflicts between students, staff and their peers.  Most of the conflicts…

  • Faith: Serving Others Above Yourself

    Serving Others Above Yourself Serving others is something many people do.  I grew up watching my parents serve the community in various capacities for the majority of their adult lives.  I watched the impact they had on people and saw the joy they got out of living a servant based life.  My dad was a…

  • Faith: Do Not Hide Your Light

    Let your light shine so that others may see him through you!

  • Faith: Random Acts of Kindness

    Today I am writing about the random acts of kindness that people show one another and how they can make a huge impact on that persons day.  Being kind is something we all like to see in people and it shows that one has a love for their family, friends, neighbors and strangers.  I can…

  • Faith: Traveling The Windy Roads With God

    Faith: Traveling The Windy Roads With God

    In our life we have traveled down many winding roads not knowing exactly what lies ahead.  Most of these roads were paved, smooth and relatively straight.  Then there are the dirt roads, rocky roads, hilly roads, curvy roads and others that are exciting to travel on, but also make  you nervous as to just where…