"Since there is so much power in the tongue, I plan to spend a portion of every day in 2020 verbally reaffirming my vision for myself, to myself." ​

"Sure, rain helps you appreciate sunshine; however, rain also helps your appreciation of an umbrella."  

“Lord, if there is any reason why I shouldn’t have this conversation, I pray you’ll make it clear.  And if I should, I pray you’ll guide my mouth."

"Here is a fact, your AP will be the person who steps into your most vulnerable place.  They will know your success, secrets, and shame.  Therefore, making a sound and good decision on who you allow your AP to be, should be the highest priority."

"This is because life gets busy and before you know it, if you’re not intentional about your pause, you’ll unintentionally become negligent in your willingness or even desire to resume. "

​You name it, I tried it?  Productivity apps, alarms, charts, spreadsheets, task accounts, books, deleting ‘distracting’ apps, shutting down my social media (yeah, that’s why I did it), working overnight, and a host of other aimless things.  All in an attempt to fix a problem that I was too proud to admit and too ashamed to ask for help with.

​I’m not attempting to advocate pessimism; however, I know that nothing good comes from living like ministry is supposed be perfect.

It’s that cringe feeling of knowing that you allowed an issue to take that much control of you.  It’s knowing that you lost sight of who you were and more importantly, “Who’s” you were.