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March 17, 2025

March 17, 2025

Trust is a primary ingredient in establishing a healthy relationship! A solid foundation is needed to produce trust. The Bible tells us that Christ is our spiritual rock (1 Corinthians 10:4). As believers, we are able to build a rock-solid relationship with Him (Matthew 7:24-25). As we build our relationship with the Lord, we are empowered to build healthy relationships with family and friends. 

 

If we don’t accept God’s word that Christ is our foundational rock, we allow doubt to become our enemy! Doubt presents serious roadblocks to building healthy relationships, as well as undermining our spiritual growth. Doubt takes root when we rely on our feelings and experiences, instead of trusting in Christ to direct our path.

 

Are you putting your trust in Christ and building on the Rock?

March 10, 2025

March 10, 2025

This article and magazine appeared when unpacking a box left over from my last move twenty-five years ago!

 

In the year 2000, I fulfilled my dream to be a Maine resident. In retrospect, I believe that my move was a part of the Lord’s plan to move me toward a fulfilling profession as a Life Coach and a calling to help others resolve problems, achieve goals, move forward, experience healing, and find God’s purpose by exploring, understanding and improving a personal relationship with Him.

 

At the time, I was motivated to save the coaching articles simply because the idea of being a life coach seemed appealing to me. Actually, I knew little about the profession and its methodology at the time. After earning my B.A. in Psychology and some follow up study in a graduate social work program, along with six years working in the mental health field, my interest in becoming a therapist or other professional helpmate became more ingrained. However, a move to another state, along with a divorce and remarriage, moved my focus to employment that seemed better able to meet my financial needs at the time. It has helped me to appreciate the fact that God’s timing is always right, whether I can understand it or not.

 

Although my coaching career had a relatively late start, I now realize that I was in need of a better understanding, and some healing and resolution of my personal issues, before moving ahead with further education and acquisition of additional coaching skills. God’s timing is always the right timing!

 

Is there something that God may be whispering to you about help with your desires or your struggles and difficulties? Do you know His great love for you?

 

Talking with a Life Coach can help you toward resolution and a new lease on life!

March 3, 2025

March 3, 2025

Two primary facets of coaching involve help in finding the right direction and encouragement. A major key to providing a positive result is a willing attitude and desire on the part of the client to both receive help and to help themself. 

 

From my experience working in the mental health field, I can’t count how many times my efforts to help clients were thwarted or frustrated because the person I was trying to help did not genuinely and wholeheartedly desire change. They wanted someone (whether me or God) to wave a magic wand, or say a prayer, and presto change-o! All done!  

 

Finding the right direction and experiencing real encouragement takes desire, commitment and hard work, especially on the part of the client! There’s a correlation with the spiritual growth that occurs when a believer experiences the desire to know more about, and become a disciple, of Jesus. The desire and commitment, over time, for spiritual growth produces change. That person becomes more like Jesus when there is consistency in learning and responding to God’s direction day by day.

 

John Darby, a noted author has observed: “Spiritual growth is the Holy Spirit engraving the Lord Jesus on a man’s heart, putting Him into his thoughts, his words, and his ways, just as the Law was engraved upon stones.”

 

If you are ready for change, having a coach can help considerably. But, I invite you to first consider asking yourself a question.

 

“Do I have a desire for a relationship with Jesus Christ and for the spiritual growth that He desires for me?”  

February 24, 2025

February 24, 2025

Although honesty seems to be accepted, almost universally, as a top of the list virtue, it’s critical for achieving success in a coaching relationship.

 

Gainful insight and clarity are needed, and they both require absolute honesty. 

 

Coaching, as is true in counseling, will only work when clients are willing to be honest about the situation at hand. 

 

My clients, in addition to being honest with me, must also be honest with themselves. 

 

The #1 enemy of honesty in our relationships is denial. If a client is in denial about any aspect of the issue that we are working on, progress will come to a halt.

 

If you’re in agreement with me about the value of honesty, and you feel ready to move forward, then you are ready for coaching and some positive results!

February 17, 2025

February 17, 2025

When you understand God’s opinion of the care and attention that He put into creating you, you know that your value is off the charts!

 

You can put aside the notion that your value, in God’s sight, is measured in relation to the attributes or accomplishments of others.

 

God created you exactly as He intended. 

 

“For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.”  Jeremiah 29:11 ESV

 

You are worthy because God says you are worthy. He loves you to the extent that He sent His Son to die in your place so that you could live with Him forever!

 

How can you not believe that you are God’s desired creation?

February 10, 2025

February 10, 2025

Happy Valentines Day!

 

Valentines Day should remind believers of God’s commandment to love others.  (Matt. 22:37-39, Mark 12:30-31, Luke 10:27, Romans 13:8-9)

 

Before we can love others with a love that is true, it’s necessary to understand our Father’s love for us. As devotional author Chris Tiegreen puts it, “Before we ever know how to love, we have to know how to BE loved”.

 

For many of us, it can be very difficult to comprehend how God can love us, especially if we are filled with shame and guilt over past mistakes and failures.

 

As we come to understand the gospel truth that, as believers in Christ’s sacrifice for our sins, we become children of God and accepted into an eternal relationship with Him, we gain the understanding and ability to accept the fact that God loves us. In turn, this opens a door that leads us to a place where it becomes part of our nature to love others.

 

In other words, when you understand the love that God has for you, and that you did nothing to deserve that love, you will become naturally open to loving others, even when they wouldn’t normally appear lovable.

 

Simply put, loving others begins with understanding, believing, and accepting God’s love for you.

 

If this is a challenging concept, or an obstacle in your life path, I’m available to discuss it.

February 3, 2025

February 3, 2025

It’s already February and Valentine’s Day will be here soon!

 

A day to celebrate Love!

 

Valentine’s Day can also be a difficult day for those who do not have a significant other.

 

The good news is that we can all take comfort in knowing that we are loved with an everlasting love. We have a God who loved us so much that He sent His one and only Son to die in our place so that we can enjoy an intimate relationship with Him.

 

I don’t know where I would be without the love of God. He has given me all that I have, as well as all that I need, including the wherewithal for coaching as a service to Him and to others.

 

It is His love that fuels my passion for coaching and for helping others. His unfathomable love and grace are my motivation for wanting to share His love and to help others achieve their God-given goals.

 

God is love! Now that is something to celebrate!

January 27, 2025

January 27, 2025

Don’t all of us have reasons to complain at times?

 

Everyone has their own issues and problems to deal with that few, if any, others are ever aware of.

 

As believers, Jesus cares and provides every need, whether we recognize it or not.

 

“And my God shall supply all your need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus.” (Philippians 4:19)

 

As Paul tells us, at a time when he was hurting and had a ton of problems, he was learning to be content. It is something we have to learn (Philippians 4:11).

 

Only by trusting the truth (Jesus) when He tells us that He has all of our needs met, can we know that we have nothing to complain about.

 

Need any help adopting this mindset? Let me know!

January 20, 2025

January 20, 2025

God has a great plan for your life if you choose to follow Him (Jeremiah 29:11)!

 

To reach your full potential, you can’t allow yourself to believe that you are inadequate or undeserving. Believe what your Creator says about you.

 

Focus on the truth of His Word that you are a unique child of God and that He has a purpose for your life!

 

Is there some reason that you’re unable to accept God’s Word about you and His plan for your life?

January 13, 2025

January 13, 2025

Most of us have visions for our lives that we turn into goals with plans to help guide us in the right direction. Unfortunately, many of us miss God’s accompanying directive to seek His help and His leading as we move, step by step, toward that goal. 

 

When we seek God’s leading, one or more of our steps may seem to conflict with our own thinking. But, as we step out in faith, and put our trust in the Lord, He will guide us in the right direction and get us to the right place.

 

One of my jobs as a coach is to help my clients to see and remove any obstacle that may be blocking God’s better plan and to substitute any step toward the goal that leads to what God sees as the most desirable.