Change is hard. For some people it is easy as cake. They love change. But for others of us (yes, I said "us") change is down right difficult. There is comfort in things staying the same. We are able to rest assure in the certain...certain of who will be there, certain of what will be there when we get to where we have always gone. Things remaining the same also allows for us not to step up to the plate of new responsibility. In my rusty, trusty Bible, I am being reminded of

What is the point of having open doors if you don’t walk through them? I mean, we pray for doors to open but when the door does open in front of us, we tend to stand in the doorway staring. We are either staring ahead to what is on the other side of the door or we are staring behind us to what we are leaving. Regardless of what we are looking at, we are looking and not moving. What is going on??? Well, I will tell you. We are paralyzed by the “what ifs” of the open door possi

Time is of Who’s Essence? We hear the idiom “Time is of the essence” so much that we repeat it to everyone. To ourselves, our children, even the clerk at the grocery store. Eek! But what does that really mean. Time is the essence of what, a clock? Cambridge Abridge dictionary tells us that it is a formal way “to encourage someone to hurry along.” (This would explain why it is often said to children, those little slowpokes.) When we say or hear “Time is of the essence” we are