Dreams

You have to love yourself to love others. But loving yourself doesn’t mean getting what you want, when you want it.  It doesn’t mean protecting your heart.  Loving yourself doesn’t give you permission to hurt others on your way to the top.    It means seeing what God sees.  He knows the deepest part of…

Every entry in my journal for 2012 is dated 2011.  I see the blunder in previous journals.  In the first few weeks at the beginning of each year I’ve done the same.  I see where I’ve changed the numbers, trying to make it look as if I’d not made the error.  Or I’ve erased it,…

There’s a box in the hallway.  It doesn’t belong there.  It holds a gift that we’ve not opened yet.  It won’t fit under the Christmas tree and it’s too large to put in our closet. The first couple of days I bumped into it and stumbled over it.  Now, I walk around it like it’s…

Two friends. Five words. One minute or less.  That’s all it took to encourage me yesterday.  I received two separate messages from two different friends that said, “I am proud of you.” I thanked them but I doubt they realize how much their words meant to me. According to Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary the word encourage means…