A great artist will tell you, at its core, paintings are about soft and hard edges. Great art, they’ll explain, regardless of genre, is about limiting the hard edges. Strategically placing the few you have, and softening as many as possible. The same is true in life. We may admire the granite jaw of our heroes, and it may draw is to them, but their heart keeps us there. It’s less about vulnerability, and more about relating to others. It’s about compassion, hope, and friendship. While we love when our heroes are fearless, at the same time, we want them to understand our fears. My heroes may have fought those…

Numbers 19:7-8 7 Then the priest shall wash his clothes and bathe his body in water, and afterward he may come into the camp. But the priest shall be unclean until evening. 8 The one who burns the heifer shall wash his clothes in water and bathe his body in water and shall be unclean until evening. This was not sin, it was uncleanness from burning the sacrifice. This affected the Priest, and the one who gathered the ashes. They had been washed, but they were unclean until the sun went down. What interested me, was where they spent the time of uncleanness? I began to wonder, so just for…

TheRe is a weapon in your arsenal, that you may not be viewing as a offensive instrument. However, you can be armed with Gratitude, without even realizing the power it wields. It is more than a state of mind, but a weapon in battle. Gratitude, if kept in the forefront of your heart and mind, will do much more than cause you to say thank you. It will remind you, in the midst of your current struggle, that you’ve experienced victory. It will reinforce that you can again. Gratitude, or thankfulness, gives you strength in the moments when, your current problem is trying to convince you that you haven’t the…