If you have a painting in you, paint. If you have a song to sing, sing. Don’t judge your creation. Just create it. Banish doubt and fear and step out of your own way if...

Change can be terrifying, but I’ve come to expect that God has an even greater adventure awaiting me than the one I leave behind.

Do the things you love to do so you’ll enjoy spending time with yourself.

Even indecision is a decision.

everything we can” isn’t enough. It’s only enough when our everything joins with Christ’s everything.

Picture for a moment the scene of a son carrying wood up a hill. He is about to make the greatest sacrifice he can make. Is it Abraham’s Isaac? Or Heavenly Father’s Jehovah? It is...

Courage is not beating up the bully or letting the bully beat you up, it is standing strong before the bully and seeing him for what he truly is: a child of God in need...

If Christ is missing from your life, it isn’t because He is lost.

To keep the entire body in shape, tend to every part of it, every limb, every organ, every joint and system. Educate yourself about your own body. Learn what to feed it and how to...

We labor under the great delusion that we are in control. Silly humans.

The truest of all truths is this: You are a child of God. Out of more than six billion people on earth now, He knows your name, what you fear and what you revere. He...

Don’t fear experience. Embrace each one as a gift, a teacher, a step to get closer to where you want to be and who you want to become.

If you’re giving to get, all you’ll receive is disappointment. But if you’re giving to give, all you’ll receive is joy.

You want to be loved? Love yourself first and passionately. Forgive yourself readily. Care for every part of you. Only when you love yourself do you have love to give to others.

To improve quality of life, to evolve into a better version of ourselves, to pause in recognition of blessings with only our name on the tag, to dance in graitutde, to embrance with abandon, to...

Sometimes letting go is the hardest thing imaginable, yet holding on is even harder.

We are spiritual children of God the Father. We preach it. We sing it. But do we really understand it? Sometimes it’s easy to tell others they are loved, but not so easy to believe...

Change isn’t only about changing your circumstances, it’s about changing you.

Be your own best buddy.

We might give God our tithing, our material possessions, even our time and talents, but those are not really ours to begin with. They are gifts on loan. What is ours is the only genuine...

No matter our sins or our sufferings, we are not isolated or abandoned. Christ is there for us, in good times and bad, and if we know how to follow Him, how to walk in...

Here’s a simple test to check and see if you have surrendered or if you are still struggling with control. When you are miserable, stressed, doubtful, and fearful, you are in control. When you are...

The roadmap to a rich, rewarding life is to follow your passion, to be willing to deviate, to never dull to the dawn of a new day and all of the possibilities it holds for...

The world teaches us to be self-sufficient, self-reliant, self-motivating. But anytime we put self before Savior, we’re in trouble

Unhealthy people tend to be unhappy people.

Sleep on it until your thoughts are rational and your tongue is capable of speaking only kindness and truth.

God is not someone you meet when you die. His smiling face will be the first and the most familiar to greet you on the other side of mortality. You’ll recognize Him and know in...

Never be afraid to share your story. No one can tell it like you can.

Life moves for people who move their bodies!

Want more energy? Drink water. Sleep deep. Love passionately. Eat clean. Forgive completely. Create something new.

I believe that we are all born for greatness yet most of us mire in the mediocrity of life. We become complacent or worse, discouraged and stagnate. We damn ourselves by not progressing.

When my toes are sunk into warm sand and the ocean is lapping my feet, when I breathe in the scent of salt and hear the cry of a seagull, I know that I am...

A sweet life is a sweaty life.

Today is the day to stop, look around, realize where you are in relation to where you want to be, change direction if needed and move forward with faith in God and in yourself.

Tears do not signal your weakness. Tears testify that you are alive.

I should learn from today and make tomorrow better.

When you’re planning the perfect Christmas … the gifts, the lights, the decorations, the paries, the cards, don’t forget the most important item on the list—Christ.

Jesus was a hiker. The wilderness was His retreat.

My grandmother caught me climbing the highest tree in her yard, the one we were all forbidden to attempt. All five feet of her stood tall as she tilted her head back and squinted up...

Let’s not beat around the bush. Life is one great big wonderful but terrifying adventure. It can be as brutal as it is beautiful. There are no do-overs. We get a single shot to make...

Health and happiness are interconnected.

Christmas is a blanket that warms our cold hearts.

I do not know the answers to life’s hard questions, but I do know the One who knows them and that’s sufficient…for now.

You are the only one who can dream your dreams.

Why are you alive? To discover joy and to share that joy with others.

How we feel is not who we are. We might feel like failures, but as long as we are still trying, we are not failures. We are works in progress.

Quiet that self-sabotaging inner voice that lays blame anywhere besides at the altar of your feet. We are responsible for the quality of our lives.

Do we? Our problem is whatever wedges between us and God.

Change doesn’t come in nickels and dimes. It comes in dedication and sweat.

Self-awareness happens when we become aware of other people, things and places around us and how we are all connected.