Sign Language for Dogs

the people you have put in cages……have held you back from progressing to different stages and you wonder why you don’t grow…….because guarding them takes up so much of your time………….spiritual growth take a distant back seat……………. the captivity has held you captive as well and under a spell that…

unlimited grace…………………give it a shot…………comes when i am willing to adopt a plan i cannot see or conceive…………a plan that takes me above my limited self………..to unlimited………………….. i would not worship a deity that could do no more than i am capable………………God affords me the power to do things i…

the constant battle for me as i head out to see, is keeping the channel open and that means breaking the ice in front of me……..the ice forms when i become frozen, locked into a mindset, conclusions as to how things should be……………………….i have my basic tenants and they keep…

in Your Hands i am complete…..in my hands i find defeat……… in Your Hands i fine serenity…..in my hands i find calamity…….. in Your Hands i am empowered to deal with the tasks before me…..in my hands the issues seem daunting and overwhelming…….. in Your Hands i feel protected and…

what you are afraid of will determine what you see………..and that can trigger thoughts far removed from reality…………….so it’s nothing to be ashamed of, we all have our things………but only those who face their fears ever reach maturity……….. what are you afraid of……… the things we are unwilling to bring…

for all intent and purposes in the scope of things i am just a grain of sand………………put in the proper perspective that is what i am………….so that would mean there are two ways to perceive………..one, i am not that important or two having the courage as most grains don’t…………………to be…

it isn’t easy for me to see what you see through your eyes………….but i try, and ask for your help so i can gather where you are coming from if i can’t catch a glimpse of what makes sense to you ………..might as well be talking to monkeys at the…

everyone has issues and we stumble as we grow…….. our missteps may be stepping stones….but they do not go away……… when you least expect it and you are skipping down the path………… the past will drop from the sky, like a hawk on the attack……………………… you had almost forgotten and…

it would be hard to accept getting advanced in years , the current popular term for aging.……if i wasn’t learning and discovering more about myself and life……………………that is the price for living ……exchanging time for knowledge…….or not………………either way time is passing……one can spend it in search of wisdom or in…

when He stirred us up and spit us out………He already knew how this would turn out…………some would ignore the invitation to grow…………….some would pretend, but not really know and a few would would keep looking though their journey was hard and slow…………but as they struggled their faith continued to grow…………………….…

i do believe in heaven and can only imagine how it will be……………the price of admission has already been paid for me……………..but my faith and discernment has led me to believe many of heaven’s blessings are available…….now……to me……. i believe the scenery would be hard to recreate………but a mind set…

from my point of view i wouldn’t think much of a faith that kept me from things………..rather would let me move freely through any situation or circumstance and not take the bait…………….neither to condemn nor compare…….but to choose another path and direction more in line with my beliefs………….. my faith…

nothing like proof to stop the wringing of hands, shaking of knees and the night sweats………and there is lot’s of it my problem, well one of them, is recalling and embracing them…………..i have a built in forgeter but i guess that’s a good thing……………….because it brings me back to the…

from where i stand it’s impossible for me to see what’s down the road awaiting me………so quite often i summarize and project and ask for things that i think will protect me from things that never happen…….. so thank God my remedies are set aside and i get what i…

one thing………………..one big thing………………..that has never failed me…………….God………………my Ace in the hole…….. all the avenues are closed as far as i can see…….the walls are closing in and the world seems to be coming after me………throw my hands up and hit my knees……………God makes a way………….. the comfort and confidence…

G could drop a dump-truck full of gold at your door or rig the lottery for you…………….but until you are ready………..like giving a toothbrush to a cat………….wouldn’t know what to do with it…..the blessings aren’t contingent on God……they depend on you……….. G wants to shower the faithful with resources to…

saints don’t choose their scenery…………they go where they are led…………….interesting that some of the most beautiful people i have encountered are in some of the direst circumstances……..doing what they were called to do………….help others………..workers in shelters…………..lay people in missions……….treatment centers……………youth clubs………………animal shelters………….. the beauty of a soul is exposed in…

i do believe i could sit on a bench with nothing in my hands…………….just the clothes on my back and a pair of glasses with a broken rim and feel the presence of my God and the Love He has for me……….and i would be okay, i know He would…

when u have have enuf…………the help u need is near………………….when all remedies u have tried…………….disappear in the air………..when pride has worn u out and worn ur patience thin………………the answer that u need ………. ask God to come in……….. if u only knew how many have scoffed………until they tried it

most of us are searching for this or that, what we think we want or need to get………………while walking by the ”treasure chest”…………………….God knows what we need and is happy to assist……………..but we refuse to use the key to open it……………….that key is the acknowledgment that He loves us and…

i write this clog to get in the way………..to be a speed bump and encourage others to slow down enough to feel the presence of God…………..forget debating………….i won’t go there……………waste of my time………..if you can look around at the wonder of nature and conceive that it just happened…………you are dead…

when life regurgitates pieces of the past that stir things up and remind me, the past is behind me, but it isn’t gone………..it still rears it ugly head and i have to accept that i am the one and only one responsible for it’s content……which basically centers around chaos and…

you can’t live there, you may visit every now and then……………..you can try and cover it but the light finds it’s way in………………….it may not be riding on your back but it will jab you every now and then…………..that old hitch-hiker…………the past………………sometimes a distant voice………….and sometimes a roaring lion……………..always there

i have seen a coward, turn into a warrior……….a thief transformed into an elder statesman………a drunkard, addict with the least concern for taking responsibility for the course of His life do a complete 360 and help many others find their way to sobriety……………and i am talking about me……. to find…

i believe God is everywhere and everything……..God is to big to hide………….a mountain wouldn’t conceal him………….God doesn’t hide………….He does His work silently……in our hearts

hip is……………………..hip is not like everyone else………hip is new…………and by the time people jump on the bandwagon…….it’s not hip…..it’s a trend…………………trends cannot be hip…………..they denote that the lemmings have fallen inline to join the masses………..the masses are never hip……….they are followers…… the only hip thing i have found that never…

you don’t have to like things in life…………….but you better accept them if they are true……….you are going to serve somebody or something…………..you can rear up like a wild stallion in protest………..but you will be broken and i have the scars to prove it and if you continue fighting………you will…

i have found a remarkable way to live and it was by changing my focus………………constant contact with God…………….the only culprit i must continually monitor is my raucous mind………delinquent entity as it is……. i stand ready, rope in hand, to lasso that critter and bring him back into the fold…………and often…

how many times have i heard the characterization of crossing the invisible line regarding behavior, addiction and thinking………..first indication of denial………..one may not be able to correctly identify an actual date and time………..understandable………………but anyone knows when they are driving in the ditch…….come on………………you saw the line……you just didn’t give a…

i would not have considered applying this term to me…………….but it is appropriate in regards to rising from the ashes to start a new life………………….i do not regret my past, though it was problematic…………..it was a vital part in dismantling a wayward soul and slowly replacing worn out parts and…