If you want to get anywhere in life, you first have to start. To lose weight, you have to start eating healthy and exercising. To be an athlete, you have to practice daily. To get an education, you have to start school. To be able to write your dream book or novel, you have to start. It can write itself in your head but the story can’t come to life until it hits paper. I’ve been where many find themselves…
It doesn’t matter if you’ve never been married. It doesn’t matter if you’ve been divorced one, two or a few times. It doesn’t matter that you’re a certain age and feel marriage has passed you by. It doesn’t matter what people think about your status. It doesn’t matter that you will be solo at the holiday gathering. What does matter is that you don’t feed the weeds of discouragement and despair. They quickly spread and kill the grass. There is…
Everything is on a timeline. We have to get up at a certain time to be at work at a certain time. ⏰ The sun rises 🌋 and sets at a certain time. 🌅 People walk in and out of our lives at certain times. Some”times” it seems as if that moment will never come. We work hard to reach a goal. We pray 🙇♀️ for a mate. We work to save a relationship or a marriage. We pray for…
There are people who will knock themselves out for a position of power. They kiss up to those in authority while looking down on the ones they’ve deemed useless and unimportant to them. When exposed to these types, it can feel demeaning to work with, socialize with, church with, network with, campaign with or whatever “with,” but it shouldn’t. When you love and put God first, are happy with who you are and where you are and you treat everyone…
Is this you? There are times when we want nothing more than the truth…even when it hurts, disappoints, betrays and wrecks our confidence in others. The TRUTH can close doors so new ones can open. The TRUTH sets us free. The TRUTH can fire us up and motivate us into positive action: leaving an unhealthy environment, ridding ourselves of toxic people, relationships and vacating situations where we do not belong. But not everyone is going to be honest. Some people…
How many times have we confided in someone or multiple people, all to have one or more repeat what we entrusted them to hold dear? Time has taught me more lessons than I can count and one of the most important ones is: If you don’t want something repeated, tell God! Our secrets are safe with Him. Not only that, He is our Source that we draw our strength from. We rely upon Him to see us through the good…
Happy Wedding Day to all the Saturday brides! Wishing you well! Wishing you Together, today, always and forever! Written by Kathryn Kaufmann © June 30th, 2018
It’s easier said than done. When someone mistreats us or a grave injustice has occurred, we can carry a grudge like a thirty ton weight. Eventually, the load becomes so heavy, we either flat-line over it or release ourselves from it. There really is something about forgiveness. Whomever it is, whatever it is, however it is…breathe deep, exhale and genuinely wish them well. And what you will find and feel is exhilarating and liberating. Written by Kathryn Kaufmann © June…
Two sweet and simple words with profound meaning that no one ever tires of hearing and they can never be overused: “Thank You!” Written by Kathryn Kaufmann © June 30th, 2018
A friend of mine used to say repeatedly in conversations, “Don’t Burn Your Bridges.” He said it so many times, it was graffitied onto my brain. He was speaking of people in his workplace and how office politics had caused many ruffled feathers. At times he said he was tempted to get involved. But during the midst of it all, he kept quiet and stayed out of the burning heaps of gossip, backstabbing and mudslinging that was an every day…