Instincts under pressure crush the carbon of conformity and create diamonds. Each new season of life offers to train us for the next season if we pay attention and adapt.

Real value isn’t in what you own, drive, wear or live. The greater value is found in love and life, health and strength, friends and family!

Baptism was to put a line of demarcation between your past sins when you are buried with Him by Baptism-you are burying your past sins-eradicating them-putting a line in the sand saying that old man is dead and he is no longer alive any more and I rise up to walk in the newness of life.

You can't just be a recipient of a blessing, you have to do something to make it happen.

Being angry is human. Staying angry is foolish.

Forgiveness is a gift you give to yourself

I was raised in the Baptist church... but I didn't really have a real committed experience with Christ until my father died.