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WINSDAY WISDOM 224 Are you ever frustrated and worried that your performance must reach some perfect standard to feel good about yourself or to receive the approval of others? I recently experienced the frustrations of walking a dog in a direction where she did not want to go. It was a struggle pulling on theContinue reading “THE PERFORMANCE TREADMILL (Part 2): More Than Good Enough”

WINSDAY WISDOM 223 What should you do if you feel you are never good enough? Do you get back on that performance treadmill and turn up the speed or do you just discount its value in a garage sale and quit life altogether? [This Winsday is primarily directed to women, but it is also veryContinue reading “THE PERFORMANCE TREADMILL (Part 1) Not Good Enough”

Do you have someone who does not like you? Maybe they hate you or have hurt you? Have they become an enemy by choice…theirs, yours, or mutual? Can you ever forgive them? Will you forgive them? How? When? Why? God’s Word teaches us that when a tree falls, it cannot be undone. If it fallsContinue reading “REWIND 8: LOVE IS SO EASY…UNTIL IT GETS HARD”

WINSDAY WISDOM REWIND 7: LET THEM EAT CAKE! I stood in the corner alone as the short, elderly lady walked toward me with a piece of cake. This was a celebration party, but I was neither the one celebrating or being celebrated. I was hated. Hated. Not like in the cultural world of social mediaContinue reading “REWIND 7: The Missing Piece of the Love Puzzle”

WINSDAY WSIDOM 222 I can hear the voice of my guardian angel as he drops his head and wings in disbelief, crying out, “What did you do now?” These are the Dog Days of Summer, the hottest, most uncomfortable part of the year. I am spending those sultry days at home, not on the beach.Continue reading “WHAT MORONIC THING DID I DO NOW?”

WINSDAY WISDOM 221 There are too many kids having to grow up with trauma. We have much needed ministries striving to help them. I want to share one life story. This youngster grew up in a dysfunctional family. It was a big family, lots of brothers and sisters. He was one of the youngest. HisContinue reading “TRAUMA and HOPE”

WINSDAY WISDOM 220 ANGER!!! Anger gets the best of us. It brings out the worst in us. I have experienced worse driving incidents, but this was the latest. The car jumped two lanes to squeeze into the left turning lane as we approached the crowded stoplight. Right in front of me! They would have hitContinue reading “ROAD RAGE ANGER”

WINSDAY WISDOM Session 219 What do you complain about? How often do you complain? If the answers are ‘Everything’ and “All the Time,’ then there might be a problem with the complainer. Just sayin’. We all complain too much and too often. Raindrops keep fallin’ on my headBut that doesn’t mean my eyesWill soon beContinue reading “CONCERNS and COMPLAINTS”

WINSDAY REWIND 6 (Back by popular demand or requested by Jeff Segner) Take me out to the ball game,                                                                         Continue reading “Rewind: The Mystery of the Missing Cheese Nachos”

WINSDAY WISDOM 218 What’s love got to do, got to do with it?What’s love, but a second-hand emotion?What’s love got to do, got to do with it?Who needs a heart when a heart can be broken? (What’s Love Got to Do with It?   —Sung by Tina Turner, written by Terry Britten and Graham Lyle)                                                                                            Continue reading “WHAT’S LOVE GOT TO DO WITH IT?”