The thief only comes to steal, kill, and destroy. I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.

John 10:10

Clearly, we are made for abundant living. The world around us and God’s power in us says that we can do the impossible.The Bible declares that we are fearfully and wonderfully made. Though there are some who dispute the Bible, the world that we live in bears witness to its truth. Mere mortal men have created everything from the social sites that consume us, to the planes that we fly in, and to advances that I don’t even have the intelligence to explain.We marvel at the works of others; while we doubt whether we can do the same. It would be understandable if those who did not believe in God were the chief doubters. Left alone in this world to figure it out and do one’s own bidding is indeed an enormous task. However, so many of us fill churches, tell others of God’s goodness, and fail to trust God for ourselves. Sure we pray when things go wrong, and we cling to our faith in the face of hard times, but we fail to believe God for the dreams in our hearts. We also say that we believe, but we fail to act.

The God who created the universe is the same God who empowers us. It is time that we believe–for real. It is time that we do those things that we were created to do. It is time that we start living abundantly. Our gifts and talents were given to us for a great purpose. We should die trying to figure out how to best use them to serve God and serve our fellow man. Someone’s life may be richer because we figured it out. However, both we and others are left poorer if we do not.

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   26 Apr, 2016

   My Guest Spot on the Women in Funeral Services Blog

   http://womeninfuneralservice.com/2016/04/26/thriving-in-a-male-dominated-industry
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   14 Apr, 2016

   Work Ethic

   I am not a sports fan, but I have always been a Kobe fan. My family has always wondered about my fascination with him when I hardly care for sports. What they don't understand is that the stories of his work ethic astound me. Hard work always gets my attention! They don't understand that work ethic is everything to me. My dad was a construction worker and ALWAYS did what he had to do for us. When my daughter was small and my ex was not working, my dad tried to come out of retirement and go back
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   19 Mar, 2016

   The Cost of Fear

   For those of you who do not know me, that is me circled in the picture above. I know the picture is a little grainy, but I absolutely love it because it captured everything that I was feeling at our book release party. When I look at it, I see how beautiful I look. I see how happy I look. I remember how overjoyed I felt. I wrote a chapter in an anthology with 19 other authors and when we came together for the launch party on this weekend, it was nothing short of divine; I see that when I look at
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   26 Jan, 2016

   Dab!

   Unsportsmanlike conduct? I get it, there are rules. But do we really want to say don’t celebrate the time of your life? Don’t have fun? Who’s really mad? You did the work, you overcame the obstacles, and now your preparation has met divine opportunity and you just want to dance, or dab a little, or even a lot! You are not the least bit worried about all of the negative forces that were against you, they thought you would never make it but you are too busy celebrating your successes to think of