What’s the last thing you said to your spouse?
Or your parents? Or your children?
What were your parting words when you last left the office? What did your coworkers take away for the ...
Are you a people pleaser?
Do you naturally say things people want to hear, follow the rules others set up, even go out of your way to ask how you can make their day better?
If so, you are a ...
It’s not where you start. It’s where you wind up.
We’ve heard that. We don’t have to be born the CEO of the company. We can start out at the bottom and work our way to the top.
It adds to ...
Take two people.
One rages at the world, and the other finds good things to celebrate every day.
What makes the difference? Why is the one angry all the time, and the other filled with joy?
Is ...
Change tinkles like diamonds in a crystal bowl.
In our pocket as we walk, in the bottom of our purse, or in our hand when we shake it around, those tiny rounds of metal sing to us as we go through ...
The modern thing is to Celebrate Us!
Cheer on the Things We’ve Done Right!
Whoop! Whoop! Let’s gather around for a party because We’re the Best We Can Be!
All that’s okay, but there’s ...
What good things have come your way recently?
Has good news flooded your inbox? A message from an old friend?
Maybe “good things” means financial gain for you.
Has your credit card limit ...
Set a glass of water in the freezer.
Leave it there for a few hours, long enough to coat the top with a solid layer of ice.
Then take a drink. You can’t, can you?
The water’s still in there, ...
What’s good about Christmas?
Everything, you say. It’s all perfect, wonderful, and joyous.
Setting up the tree! How fun!
Cooking for a month! Exciting!
Midnight gift-wrapping sessions! ...
We can improve our memories with verses of song.
It’s in our vocal muscle memory. We can hear a fragment of a song from decades before, and we can sing it, even though we’d forgotten we knew ...
We have a holiday song we sometimes sing. It starts like this:
Oh, the weather outside is frightful, but the fire is so delightful …
Those words translate to more than cold and snow and the ...
So you’re not the soloist in the choir.
Does that make you less of a Christian example?
You were never successful teaching a Sunday school class.
How much does God favor you if you’ve failed ...
David, the master songsmith, the singer of praises, and the worship leader of Israel, gave us much of the Book of Psalms.
A favorite verse from the man after God’s own heart comes from Psalm ...
