Playing Through The Whistle

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Happy Friday, ladies and gentlemen! As young athletes we’re always told to play through the whistle. Coaches look at us crazy (occasionally lose their minds) when, during practice, we just stop in the middle of a play. Usually, when we stop in the middle of a play it’s because we’re not fully engaged in the […]

Give Them Mercy

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Good morning, ladies and gentlemen! Today’s Word with Joel and Victoria Life may not have turned out the way you planned, but you still have the power to be happy right where you are. God is the source of all joy, and when God gives you something, nothing in the world can take it away. […]

Living From A Merry Heart

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Happy Hump Day, ladies and gentlemen! From Mary Morrisey’s, The Miracle Minute  Not long ago I was speaking with a group of people who have been doing the recent research on gratitude from a scientific point of view. All the new research from Harvard and Penn State and every other prestigious university that is doing […]

It’s Not Easy To Be Grateful

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Good morning I heard a great sermon in church Sunday that discussed needs, faith, and prayer. In a nutshell, the message of the sermon was that, while we are focused on our needs and what is wrong in life, we are doing nothing but bringing more of that into focus. Rev. Jackson explained that even in prayer, we […]

Separate The Music From The Message

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GREAT Monday morning, ladies and gentlemen! Each and every one of us has heard a song or two and wondered why anyone would think it’s good music. And we’ve probably already convinced ourselves that it’s actually not good music. We look at certain people listening and singing along to the songs and wonder if they have any clue as […]

A Healthy Mental Diet

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An empty head is not really empty; it’s stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head. – Eric Hoffer Good morning, ladies and gentlemen! Happy Friday and happy November! I like the above quote because it’s a reminder to us to manage the thoughts that occupy our minds. I often mention the […]

Share Your Talents

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Good Wednesday morning, ladies and gentlemen! Let me begin by thanking you for being an audience, and an outlet for me to toss my thoughts too. If you’d asked me when I got out of college, what I’d be doing right now, I would have said teaching. I would not have said playing lacrosse still. And I […]

Stress Is A Choice

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Good morning, ladies and gentlemen! I hear from people all the time that they are “a little stressed out.” I also hear from people that “we all get stressed” sometimes. I wholeheartedly disagree. Stress, like many other things in life, is a choice. I, personally, do not allow myself to use the word stress in […]

The Power of Stories

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Good Monday morning! Last week, I had the opportunity to reconnect with a friend of mine that I had not spoken with since college, save a couple of emails. We picked up as if there hadn’t been an 8 + year lapse of communication; as if we’d just been hanging out in the dining hall or the dorms […]

Planting Seeds To Grow

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Good morning! If words are to enter men’s minds and bear fruit, they must be the right words shaped cunningly to pass men’s defenses and explode silently and effectually within their minds. – J.B. Phillips Being a (wo)man of few words can be good. Being a (wo)man of effective, engaging, empowering communication is better. As with […]

Life By Your Terms

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Good morning! Last week I started typing one of these messages, and it went completely off track into another message that I was not ready to send, so I didn’t. As I was typing yesterday, I almost spawned off into a completely different message as well toward the end, but decided to erase it and save it for […]

Managing Our Words

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Given my 3 minutes of poetic life, I want to inhale inspiration… Digest divine definitions of diction, and let them pass through my system to the point where… this poem stings the intellectually inclined and creates a process of healing for the intellectually deprived. – Chazz Woodson, Prophecy Good morning, ladies and gentlemen! In poetry […]