I don’t know about you, but I’ll be glad to see 2016 go. This has been a year filled with changes, some good and some…not so much. Change causes growth, however, so I have tried as much as possible to embrace those changes and learn to say, “Thank you” to those individuals who were placed in my path to help me confront some of my rough edges that I would have preferred to ignore. In hindsight, I now recognize that they had to be acknowledged and polished if I was to become a more refined image of the One I seek to honor and glorify. (Between you and I, there must have been a LOT of rough edges because there was a LOT of polishing these past 12 months!!!) One thing I have learned is that if w
My age will show for certain with this post, but I am a child of the sixties and seventies. When I hear three-part harmony, I get the chills. I grew up listening to Hendrix, the Chambers Brothers, and lots of Earth, Wind & Fire, and associated with those who believed that we could all live in peace and that love could prevail and that we really we had more in common than we did that set us apart. This quote about sums it up for me. We cannot attain these qualities; we must strive to become these qualities and live them out if we want to see them manifest in others. I believe we can create the kind of world we want to leave behind for our children and their children and that it can be better
