I recently read a book called The Geography of Thought. It’s about how Asians and Westerners think differently and why. It was fascinating to read, especially as I have spent so much of my life between these two cultures. For those of us in the West, we think...

There Is More There is more to life than you ever thought Thinking “this is the end” is not truly so You are not alone in this big world It is full of hurting people who need your help. There is a rich man, dying alone. A mother who has lost her child grieves alone. A...

Sometimes the worry and care that we carry has to do with sins from our past. We can think over and over again about them, and that burden we carry just gets heavier. But we need to remind ourselves that the sins from our past are not just covered, they are judged,...

When we are faced with problems—a lack of resources, a misunderstanding or some health problem—we have a choice. We can either give in and react through worrying and anguish or we can pray and ask other people to pray for us and leave the whole mess and all the...

When we face difficulties and are tempted to worry, it is our choice as to how we will respond. I’ve been learning and relearning this. Like I shared the other day, we can worry and be anxious, or we can remember that God is working. He loves us and we can trust Him...

Worry causes us to lose the opportunity to enjoy the present blessings. Are you able to enjoy life right now? The friends you have, the opportunities given you, your teachers, your living space, your family, are you able to enjoy these things that God has given you?...

You can see what someone lives for and who a person is internally by the way he or she responds to problems and difficulties. Only when the storm comes, the rain falls and the earth shakes do we learn the true character of the person. When circumstances become adverse...

Enable me, Jesus, to build faith for someone to give hope to the hopeless to create confidence to generate enthusiasm to spread peace to turn dreams to reality to turn problems into opportunities to lift up the fallen to bind up the hurting to say a kind word to let...