Category Archives: Today’s Encouragement

Thoughts to help you break out of discouragement and shame

The Prize Is At the Bottom!

Prize at the bottom

The Quest . . . Back when I was a kid, a lot of grocery items came with a prize in them. I can’t count how many bowls and boxes of things I ate that I really didn’t care for, just to get a chintzy little plastic prize. Those silly trinkets always seemed to settle…

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Addiction: Can you get it from your family?

There is scientific evidence that suggests that our genetic makeup can make us more vulnerable to addiction. Maybe you can point to situations where addiction seems to run in a family. The addict’s parents, and maybe even their grandparents, have had their own struggles with addiction. On the other hand, you may be aware of…

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If He Can Do It, So Can You!

Yep! YOU can do it! Some of you may be wondering what happened to us. It’s been quite a few weeks since we last blogged. What’s up? Well, let’s just say, life can sometimes take some very unexpected turns. One day things are fine and, literally overnight, everything changes. IT RECENTLY HAPPENED TO US July…

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Do You Need to Recalibrate your HOPE meter?

IT’S EASY TO LOSE HOPE . . . We get impatient when success doesn’t happen as quickly as we think it should . . . and we lose hope. We take our eyes off the goal . . . and we lose hope. We start listening to the negative voices in our heads instead of…

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Who is the REAL You? How Can You Know?

Who are you? Who did God create you to be? When we’ve spent a lifetime hiding our true selves from a world that we’re not quite sure will accept us, it’s easy to lose sight of who that authentic person really is. THE TRUTH ABOUT YOU One thing I can say for sure . .…

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