I woke up this morning with an image in my head of people all around me playing a game of "Peek a boo", only they never reached the final phrase and phase of the game, which is "I see You!". They just kept covering and uncovering their eyes and saying "peek a boo."  As I thought more about it, it hit me in a profound way that most people go throughout their lives playing this form of "peek a boo". They uncover their eyes just long enough for others to have a peek at them, but then they quickly cover them up again. The eyes being the windows to the soul or the windows to who is really inside that human figure are revealed for anyone to see, but only for a moment. They are covered again before anyone can really get a good long look or be...

What do people think about in their final moments of this life? I was watching a recorded Oprah episode today in which she was interviewing singer, Bret Michaels (from the rock band, Poison), about his recent near-death experience. She asked him what he thought about when he thought he was going to die. He said that he thought about his family and the people he loves. He began to ask God to allow him to live longer if he promised to be a better man and let him stay with his family. Oprah agreed that she had heard many people say that their last thoughts were of the people they loved and the people that loved them. In Brendon Burchard's Book, Life's Golden Ticket, he says that people will ask three questions when their life is ov...

There is a popular saying that says, 'Hindsight is always 20/20' which eludes to the fact that if you would have known the significance of something in your past at the time that it was happening, you might have acted differently than you actually did at that moment. Many see it as a very important tool in learning. However, I would suggest that its relative "insight" is much more important. Hindsight helps one to see the significance of things that occured in the past, but insight takes a deeper look to understand that significance. Insight helps us find the answer to the most important question..."why?" It shines a light on the underlying reasons and points to the truth. It is what enables us to learn from our experiences. Until you ...

"Our job in this lifetime is not to shape ourselves into some ideal we imagine we ought to be, but to find out who we already are and become it." Steven Pressfield in The War of Art. I just finished the book, The War of Art, by Steven Pressfield, and this quote traveled with lightening speed from my reading eyes straight to my heart. It turns out my mom was right all along when she reminded me to 'just be myself'. It is so easy for us to get caught up in trying to be who others want us to be, who we think we SHOULD be, and in trying to be someone who is completely different than we are. Often times we act a part so much that we even forget who we really are or perhaps we never even take the opportunity to find out. Then we wonder wh...

Today I had the opportunity to discuss personal missions, talents, gifts and purpose today with my 9-year-old Sunday School students. We talked about Moses and various other people from the Bible and about their personal life missions--how their gifts, talents and experiences prepared them for the things they were to do, how they had little faith in their abilities in the beginning, how their faith AND their abilities grew over time with the help of God, and the differences they made in the lives of others. Of the many valuable gems of wisdom found in these stories, two things really stood out for me in our discussion that I wanted to share with you. The first thing is that as each of us shares our talents and gifts with others, we mak...

Dorothy's journal on self-esteem motivated me to write about a topic I have recently been studying. The topic is finding one's voice. I really believe that each of us as human beings has a specific message that we are equipped with to share with the rest of humankind. It may be shared by what we do for a living. It may be shared through our daily interactions with others. But mostly, it is shared through WHO we are. As we start to clear away the baggage, drama, excess clutter, stresses of life, lies about ourselves, limitations, etc., we slowly evolve into our true selves, and it is through this true self, that the voice comes out and can be shared with those around us. The problems that we run into are that sometimes we have a hard...