What images comes to mind when you hear the word insatiable?

A thirst that you can never quench. An itch that can never be fully scratched, or perhaps an appetite for something that can never be quite satisfied.

What is it that you have an insatiable uncontrollable craving for? Is it food, money, power, prestige, a person?…

Do you find yourself tossing and turning in bed because you just can’t seem to go to sleep? Are you up surfing the web, on your phone, watching tv, or hitting the fridge all times of the night trying to position yourself to fall asleep? …

All around the world, wringing in a New Year comes with many traditions, ranging from fireworks to food to festivities. It is easy to find people everywhere making promises, pledges, and affirmations regarding relationships, their bodies, their faith, and their finances. One of the more common popular traditions you find is the playing of the song, Auld Lang Syne…

I have found that Squatters and Dwellers can also apply to our thought life. We should be mindful of the thoughts that are Squatters and stay long enough to become Dwellers in our minds…

Believing works better for those of us who concede we do not know everything, nor can we. Believing means you just came to a place of Trust. Trusting in the unseen and the unknown. A place where we say I don’t have to understand a thing to believe…

Sometimes just the very thought alone of asking for something can be a nerve-wracking experience by itself.

That is before we also consider the fact that we must stand, wait, and act like we believe it will happen, just in order to get it to happen.

Sheesh! …

Time…Time…Time…

Many times, we don’t seem to give a lot of consideration to Timing. It’s as if though we assume that Time, will tell Timing when things are ready. It’s as if we believe that Time, is far more important than Timing.

But nothing could be further from the truth…

What first comes to mind when you hear the word obey?

Do you cringe? Are you indifferent?

Or does some form of defiance raise up in you?

Perhaps an image flashed in your mind of an instance when someone was attempting to control you, and thus they required you to obey them…

Worrying is when you feel uneasy or trouble by something that could happen.

No matter where we are in our faith, whether beginners or veterans, we still worry.

But does it help?

Let us examine the power of worrying and how it affects our situations…

The presence of Peace means there is no conflict occurring nor brewing.

Peace is not the absence of conflict, but rather it is the force that has managed and subdued the conflict…

I like being comfortable just as much as the next person.

But what do we do when we encounter the uncomfortable? Those things that we cannot adjust or fit our own personal comfort level. How do we handle those things? …

Within each of us there is an Inward High Point, A Spire. A place in our being that doesn’t want to give up and quit. A place where we still believe and hope it can still happen. A place pointing upward…

Fear, Death, Illness, Sadness, and Uncertainty, are almost everywhere we turn.

It would be tough, to expect anyone to be grateful, throughout all this madness. Yet, learning to be grateful, will greatly increase the quality of our daily life…

No matter what. We can’t lose Hope!

It will be okay, even if we lose a loved one, Hope will get us through it.

I say this from my own personal experiences with losing my little brother recently and previously having lost my mother and two sisters over the past few years…