"Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it." (Proverbs 4:23) Seventeen years ago, I was diagnosed with a condition called mitral valve prolapse. The day of my diagnosis still haunts me today because it was a day of great fear and uncertainty. On that day, as I left work abruptly because I was having what I believed to be chest pains. The pain invaded my neck and my left arm and it also wrapped a sheet of anxiety around me. I couldn’t breathe – I

Eat thou not the bread of him that hath an evil eye, neither desire thou his dainty meats: for as he thinketh in his heart, so is he: Eat and drink, saith he to thee; but his heart is not with thee. Proverbs 23:6-7 (KJV) Have you ever known someone who was a social climber? Have you watched them "position" themselves with others who are considered "influential", so as to further their own agenda? In my mind, there is a huge difference between networking and making an allia

As a spaceship rocketing off on its voyage tends to adjust itself automatically along the way, so should we married folk as we careen through our lifetime together. The end goal for the ship is some far off point in space, whereas marriage has no true “end goal” (and please don’t say “it’s the perfect marriage”). Yet, we must acknowledge as always that marriage undergoes changes – some positive and some challenging; but, how do we navigate our way through the challenges and