Do you ever feel like your emotions are taking you on a roller coaster ride? Emotions are affected by your thinking. So, I have a question for you. Do your emotions control you, or do you control your emotions? Several years ago I taught a class about how thinking affects what you feel, speak, and choose. After the class...
We all experience events in our lives where we are the victim. Things happen to us that are beyond our control. You can be stopped at a stoplight, obeying all traffic laws, and still be the victim of an accident because of someone else’s choices. There are many other things that we have no control over where we may be...
Sometimes everything seems to go wrong all at the same time. That is often true during the holiday season when pressure is high and time is short. In reality, bad things happen to us all the time. I’m no exception. When we face negative circumstances, we get a choice. We get to choose our response. We can focus on the bad or...
Everyone has experienced pain and disappointment, and many have experienced trauma that makes it difficult to trust. We have struggles that are common to man. We have experienced rejection, loneliness, abandonment, fear, persecution, accusations, and judgment. We face uncertain futures and our hope needs to be in God. Many of...
How often do you find yourself following the “Path of Negativity?” First one bad thing happens, then before you know it your entire day is ruined just as soon as it began. On a daily basis we all face both good and bad events beyond our control. How we end up on the “Path of Negativity is determined by how we feel,...