OK Guys Lets Show A Little Self Control Here…

“God has equipped you to handle difficult things. In fact, He has already planted the seeds of discipline and self-control inside you. You just have to water those seeds with His Word to make them grow!” — Joyce Meyer

In the 1960’s Stanford university conducted a study children were asked to sit down in the chair and pick a snack from a tray of treats. A researcher then made each child an offer: he or she could either eat one marshmallow right away or, if she was willing to wait while he stepped out for a few minutes, they could have two snacks.

Footage of the experiments, which were

Soul Searching??? Try Soul Surfing!

My posting for this week is on persistance, and a movie I saw recently really shows the pay off of persistance. The movie is called “Soul Surfer” and it is the story of Bethany Meilani Hamilton of Hanalei, Kauai, Hawaii who is the Persistance Poster-Child…

From her own biography: [http://bethanyhamilton.com/about/]
Bethany has become a source of inspiration to

A Poetic Way To Be Well-Organized [A.K.A. Wayyyyy Too Much Time On My Hands…]

This week the virtue I followed was “well-organized” and i found it hard to figure what makes someone well organized. Then I remembered a trick  I used when I was writing in prose. Prose is a type of poetry where  rhyming rhythm is not the artistic tool in use, meter is. Meter is when the syllabic rhythm is repeated throughout the prose, so a 8-5 meter means one line is 8 syllables long, the next is 5 syllables  and it repeats through the entire piece.

My trick was to

Someeee…Whereeeee… Over The Rainbowwww…. OK, OK, Over The Rain Bucket…

Cowardly Lion:

Courage.

What makes a King out of a slave?

Courage.

What makes the flag on the mast to wave?

Courage.

 What makes the elephant charge his tusk in the misty mist or the dusky dusk? What makes the muskrat guard his musk?

Courage.

What makes the Sphinx the

Medical Alert – Beware The Danger Of The Highly Contagious Disease CSTFFTT

Our MKMMA assignment this week was to notice Little Acts of kindness around us.

As a minister, I try to notice things happening around m,e but kindness was proving to be hard to find. I strained so hard to see the hearts of others in action, that I almost missed the real kindnesses. I was looking for the thought provoking and almost missed the thoughtful. I was expecting the inspiring and almost missed the engaging.

I had fallen victim to the the little known and seldom discussed malady called CSTFFTT ( pronounced cast-fit ). This insidious and crippling disease can