Welcome! These are just notes. My (often unfinished) thoughts, not properly edited. Things taken from my journal, study notes etc. I mostly wrote these notes as a way to help me give voice to the thoughts and ideas I have floating around in my head, but I made them public just in case someone else might benefit from them.

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  • How to Write Out Your Dream Life

    How to Write Out Your Dream Life

    Where there is no vision the people perish (Proverbs 29:18). Is your life boring and mundane?  Do you have a dream for your life? One thing that will help you get excited about life is writing out your dream life.  What would your life look like if you had unlimited money, time and resources?   How…

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  • The Gifts and Calling of God are Without Repentance

    The Gifts and Calling of God are Without Repentance

    For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance. Romans 11:29 Awhile back I asked my mentor what she thought about me adding some Christian success tips to my writings. She gave me some sound wisdom and some things to think about then she said, “…you could focus on making this your goal for…

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  • Meeting My Mentor for the First Time

    Meeting My Mentor for the First Time

    Meeting Connie Ragen Green On April 12, 2023, I saw this message in Connie’s e-mail. This is the last call to join my live marketing event, “Clarify Your Message, Enlist Your Tribe.” I love gathering with a small group of people to share my knowledge and experience with them, and to also learn from each…

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  • Lots of Practice in Learning How to Reframe

    Lots of Practice in Learning How to Reframe

    My family and I have been traveling and yesterday was… well, phenomenal! We were almost home when a thunderstorm caused delays. After circling the airport too long, the pilot announced we were low on fuel and had to divert to another airport to refuel. Then we sat on the tarmac for four hours because of…

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  • Family Fun

    Family Fun

    Saturday turned into one of those unexpected little adventures. We drove up to Fort Wayne and spent the afternoon wandering around downtown, taking in all the beautiful hydrangeas and other flowers and colorful murals splashed across the sides of old buildings. Promenade Park was especially peaceful—we sat on that giant swing overlooking the river and…

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  • My Gourds of Christmas Book Adventure

    My Gourds of Christmas Book Adventure

    Several years ago, I had the privilege of creating an “art” book with one of my friends who is a gourd artist. This wasn’t just an ordinary book with text. No, it had images of her gourd art as well as other images. My goal was to make each layout a piece of art. For…

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  • Becoming the Artist I Didn’t Know I Was

    Becoming the Artist I Didn’t Know I Was

    I’ve always wanted to create art, but I never learned how to draw and never enjoyed trying to learn how to draw and paint in the traditional sense. It was too much like work to me, so I put away my pencils and paint brushes and unleashed my creativity through sewing, crafting and creating flower…

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