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Faith is not tested when you are well-dressed in church, on your knees, and praying surrounded by “believers”. We can all pray there.  Faith gets tested in the desert while frustrated, bored, scared, hungry, thirsty, and alone. You know that season of life when everything seems to go against you despite your best efforts. That…

Forgiving others from the depths of your soul is not just a blessing or a gift but a powerful act of self-liberation. It’s one of the most selfish and empowering things you can learn to do in your life. The Buddha once said: “Holding onto anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die.” If I have wronged you…

Your most profound battles, the ones that truly test your mettle, are fought and won or lost in the depths of your own being. It’s a testament to your personal strength and resilience. There are no three-headed dragons outside following you and waiting to eat you alive. From the outside, all that comes is temptation. The…

“No relationship, no problems” – gets posted quite often, and it amuses me every time I see it. It is true that a serious and committed relationship has its challenges. It is not easy to consider someone else’s view of the world.  It is true that time passes, and the two people who met at…

In our arrogance, we all think we need or should be the first violin in God’s orchestra of life. You may need to be that fat kid with the big drum in the back.  Are you ok with that role? Are you focused enough in that role to give us the perfect “bang” at the…

Faith gets tested because faith is one of those things that are easier said than done. Submitting to God and the flow of life means renouncing your idea of “good or bad.” Right? You don’t get to say what is good or bad anymore, for yourself obviously, because you submitted to God and also to…

People can’t wait to advise you on things they have never done and have no idea how to do. Talk is cheap, and people love to blabber about anything and everything. When I first got divorced, people who had never married started giving me marriage advice. When I first started fasting, fat people gave me…

A form of prayer I am just discovering and started practicing is being completely honest and direct with God. I am stating directly and honestly how I genuinely feel and what I actually think. Oh, I must tell you that I love it. “God, I don’t understand, and I don’t like this season you are…

Develop an “unhealthy” obsession for winning. I used to wake up in the morning and start worrying about money, relationships, health, my job, my family, you name it.  I remember having times when I would start worrying about the position of Mercury in the sky.  Is Mercury in retrograde again? I used to ask myself….

Negative, Nelly or Nancy, take your pick.  Don’t you just love them?  Yup, me neither! This is a topic I thought long and hard about because I have a negative Nelly in my close circle, which I can not avoid or ignore. For me, my negative Nelly is my mother. May God bless her soul…