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August 18, 2025

August 18, 2025

There are many verses in the Bible about paths, and several about the “path of life”.  The verse I quote most often is David’s in Psalm 16:11, which adds “with eternal pleasures at your right hand.”  Is there anyone who wouldn’t want to be on this kind of path?

 

This is where the name of my coaching business comes from. It is not my path, but the Lord’s. He has a unique and special path laid out for each one of us. My work as a coach is to be a guide on your path, helping you to navigate around the obstacles and avoid and/or overcome the various roadblocks along the way.

 

Not only are we on a path to the life we will have for eternity with the Lord in glory if we belong to Him, but we are on a path to a better and richer life here on earth. This life path can be one that leads to healthy and fulfilling relationships – with others, with God, and with yourself!

 

Are you on the path of abundant life? If you would like to learn more about how I can help you or whether we would be a good fit for a coaching relationship, send me a message and we will set up a time for a complimentary discovery call.

August 11, 2025

August 11, 2025

Today I am bringing you the ultimate tip!  This tip has the power not only to change your relationships, but everything in your life that needs changing. 

 

Here it is: God is the solution for every difficulty and problem we face in life. He is the source of our strength. 

 

He wants us to trust Him completely. He wants us to turn to Him for the solutions to our problems and difficulties in life. 

 

He is our healer and comforter and desires to heal us of our old emotional wounds and memories. 

 

He wants us to be completely dependent upon Him. There is no substitute for trust in God.

 

Where do you turn for help? Are you depending on someone or something besides the Lord? 

July 21, 2025

July 21, 2025

Do you find, as I often do, that Monday mornings tend to leave me feeling like I need an extra dose of God’s peace and reassurance? There are fresh to-do lists to tackle, including ones that didn’t get completed last week, and it’s a challenge to figure out how to accomplish it all in the week in front of me.

 

I often rely on these verses from Philippians 4, especially in The Message version of the Bible, and the thought of “shaping” our worries into prayers, even into praise! When you think about it, we have a choice to make, not only on Monday, but every day.

 

Do we trust the Lord that everything will come together for good? Do we allow ourselves to feel His peace settle down on us, or are we determined to hold onto our worries and to fret?

 

Our Heavenly Father wants to replace the worry in our life with the peace that only He can bring.

 

Are you up for choosing to let Him take over and shape your worries into prayer and praise?

June 30, 2025

June 30, 2025

Do you ever feel like a failure? Have you ever felt like you’re not good enough and maybe you ought to give up? I have!

 

Failure is defined as “lack of success or the omission of expected or required action”, but, individually, we tend to define failure based on our personal experience.

 

It’s been said that Thomas Edison failed thousands of times before he succeeded at inventing the electric light bulb. His own statement was, “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work. I am not discouraged because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward”.

 

If you take a look at the book of Isaiah, chapter 58, verse 11, you’ll see that God is aware of our failure problems and offers a fix.

 

“The Lord will guide you continually,

And satisfy your soul in drought,
And strengthen your bones;
You shall be like a watered garden,
And like a spring of water, whose waters do not fail.”

 

We only fail when we stop trying and give up!

 

Don’t be afraid of failure. Like Edison, face it with a positive attitude, learn from your mistakes and keep moving forward. There is always a positive end result!

 

Look forward to the likelihood that there will be a day when you will be able to contribute a word of wisdom about failure!

June 16, 2025

June 16, 2025

Oceans of Love!

 

Staring into the endless horizon over the sea helps me to comprehend His unbounded love for me.

 

My experience of coming to a place of understanding and appreciating His love for me spanned many years, and was often an arduous journey. It takes faith and perseverance to capture an understanding of His love that allows us to breathe it in, to feel it and to breathe it back out.

 

God desires that we see ourselves and each other through the lens of His love – a love that is endless and unconditional. Only He can love us with perfect love.

 

Along with giving His unconditional love, He desires that we love Him back and that we let others know the joy that they can experience in the acceptance of His gift of love.

 

Are you really aware of how much the Lord loves you?

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!

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 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?

December 30, 2024

December 30, 2024

Happy New Year!

 

Does that greeting lead to any thoughts about possible changes for the better in your life next year?

 

In other parts of the world people do some odd things on New Year’s Eve to try to ensure changes in the coming year. In Russia, there’s a tradition of writing wishes on a piece of paper, burning it, and then drinking the ashes in a glass of champagne! In Turkey, people sprinkle salt on their doorstep at midnight to assure peace and prosperity in the new year.

 

My personal hope for the new year is that there will be a widespread recognition of the truth found in God’s Word that, as individuals, we all fall short in God’s sight. This one critical insight is what allows us to understand and accept Jesus’ offer to put our hopes and desire for the change that God is looking for in His hands. If you haven’t done that yet, that’s the one life changing event that I hope you will experience in the new year!

 

My coaching goal is to help my clients to find this new beginning and to help them travel a new road that leads to becoming the people that God made them to be, new people in partnership with the Holy Spirit! It’s the same goal that is beautifully stated by Frances Brook in 1896 when he wrote the hymn, “My goal is God Himself, not joy, nor peace, nor even blessing, but Himself, my God.”

 

As Charles Stanley observes, “His commitment to you is lasting…His friendship never changes.”

 

Does the transformation that God is looking for, and offers to each of us, sound like a worthwhile goal for the new year?