Do you really need a title?

Clever quotes from leaders about leadership abound; my personal favorite is John Maxwell’s: “Leadership is influence.” It doesn’t matter where your ‘position’ is, and you don’t need a title. You might be brand new to a team, in your first week on a job, maybe a...

Moving Forward: Who are You?

END OF YEAR REFLECTIONS… assess the past, inventory the present and walk into the promises stored up and waiting for you. Standing on the crest of a new chapter of your life, what do you hope for? Is it love? Peace? Health? Faith? Influence? Patience? Trust?...

Love with strength?

“Listen, O Israel! The Lord is our God, the Lord alone. And you must love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, and all your strength. And you must commit yourselves wholeheartedly to these commands that I am giving you today. Repeat them again and...
Why would you wannabe?

Why would you wannabe?

There’s a life lesson my dog taught me. He finds incredible joy in who he is and what he was created to be. In the silences of your life…do you? Do you like who you are and how you fit in? Or are you left wondering if you are not only counted on, but counted in? In...

Unscripted reality

My work days are spent in worlds of augmented reality, in lightened shadows and retouched blemishes, in looking delicious to the eyes, maybe not always to the palate. I work in un-lived roomsets, with moving walls that change scenes, beautifully propped flowers and...

Tempted? Take it higher

Tempted. You? Me too. For we do not have a high priest who is unable to empathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who has been tempted in every way, just as we are—yet he did not sin. Let us then approach God’s throne of grace with confidence, so that we may...