One of the greatest challenges in creating a joyful, peaceful and abundant life is taking responsibility for what you do and how you do it. As long as you can blame someone else, be angry with someone else, point the finger at someone else, you are not taking responsibility for your life.

Forgiveness is a process of giving up the old for something new. Old experiences and memories that we hold on to in anger, resentment, shame, or guilt cloud our spirit mind. The truth is, everything that has happened had to happen. It was a growth experience. There was something you needed to know or learn. If you stay angry, hurt, afraid, ashamed, or guilty, you miss the lesson. You will be stuck in a cloud of pain.

You know why the road curves as you're driving along? It curves because if God showed us the distance from where we are to where we’re going, we’d think it was too far.

Some children do what they’re told to do; some children do what they’re told not to do; all children do what they’re parents have done.

No whining, no complaining about anyone. Everybody in your life has come to teach you lessons.

Any time in America when the military has to stand in opposition of their own citizenry, something is wrong.

You are never angry for the reason you think you are. There's an older hurt under that.