I currently use decorative doors for my booth display when participating in events. What started as a cute enhancement to add dimension and draw the eye upward from my table, later revealed itself as another facet of this ministry and mission to draw eyes “upward” from the tables of our hearts to God. It all …
Get a “Real” Job?! Gee, thanks.
Creative work has been around for centuries. For as long as they’ve been around, artists, singers, dancers, writers, speakers (and dern it I gotta include mimes)… they’ve all been heckled with “Get a REAL job” by those who don’t understand. And it hurts. It’s hard to NOT take that personally, even to a small degree, …
Flattery Will Get Me Somewhere
You’ve heard the old adage, I know you have, “Flattery will get you nowhere”. There is something powerful in flattery, something rather profound, and I feel compelled to share because it’s a bit of an eye-opener on a fresh perspective. A hundred years ago (give or take a few years) when I was in early …
Thank You Lord and A Smile
Count your blessings. We know we should, and let’s face it when we actually take the time to do so, it’s rather simple to count our blessings. All too often people fall back onto counting their “blech-ings”. :) Everything seems to point to “blech”, nasty, no-good, horrible, terrible, could-it-get-any-worse, etc. EVERYTHING? Not ONE good thing …