Good morning and good coffee!  Does this ever happen to you?  You are just idlily thinking and your mind gravitates towards a problem and you spend the next several minutes or hours thinking about the problem over and over again.   I s

Good Morning and Good Coffee!  Do you worry about what is in the future?  Does the future distract you from focusing on your steps today.  Jesus tells us to focus on him as he leads us on his path, but that can be hard to do.  Let's di

Good morning and good coffee!  Some people say they need a strong cup of coffee or energy drink to strengthen them and get them through the day.  However, that strength (if we want to call it that) is fleeting at best.  Jesus promises to be

Good Morning and Good Coffee!  Have you ever heard the phrase, "Whatever occupies your mind the most becomes your god"?  Kind of a scary thought, isn't it?  What occupies your mind the most?  What would Facebook report as occupying you

Good Morning and Good Coffee!  What you focus on is what you see, but what kind of lens are you looking through can cause all kinds of distortion.  Anxious, judgmental, and confused perspectives distort what and who we are looking at, but when w

Good Morning and Good Coffee!  Over the course of our lives, many important people will move away from us, and we don't see them as we once did.  Jesus disciples were worried when Jesus talked about leaving, but he made them a promise that he al

Good Morning and Good Coffee!  There was a Scottish song from my childhood about taking the high road or low road implying one was a direct route while the other was a more difficult path.  Jesus instructs us to stay close to him and he will gui

Good Morning and Good Coffee!  Do expect that this world should be problem free because you are a Christian?  Well, I hate to break it to you, but this world will never be perfect.  But it doesn't have to be to see the wonders and feel the

Good morning and good coffee!  What kind of sacrifice does Jesus desire?  Money?  Blood?  Fruits or Grains?  No, he desires the sacrifice of our time to draw close to him and to experience an intimacy and transformation into what

Good morning and good coffee!  If you found a great treasure on someone else's property, what would you do?  Would you sell all you have to buy the property and have the treasurer?  How valuable would you consider a powerful peace that is a