Mastering A Moment

As we enter the new season. A new set of rules are laid out. What are resolutions but new moments? How do you master a moment that produces fruit? The success of a moment isn't within the moment but the collection of all moments made into one journey. momentmoment

The Mockers Storm

The most recent acts in North Korea are no different that what's allowed to play out in modern way and day of America. The decision to bully a movie company to close down its thoughts to release a movie shouldn't come as a shock. In every work place there stands the accepted bully. Nobody stands in their way. Being held accountable for being a bully and or verbal abuser is protected by the keepers gate key. I stand back and wonder why we judge another nations practices when we are doing the same. Until there is change on this divided highway. The journey toward a more peaceful tomorrow is a silent poets thoughts and not actions.

Deer Thief

I'm not sure why God created man's desire to kill animals. I grasp the concept of survival. Why then does man think he wins when the sport of killing becomes his passion? And none of it rests in the hands of survival but rather ego? I cannot ask God to strike out. I cannot use verbal accusations to create bigger wars. I ask why does man think he is greater than? When the end result of all things living isn't death...but rather peace.

Display The Right To Write

've been a writer my entire life. The addiction first slipped onto my path as far back as the second grade. I always knew I was going to write books, poetry, music and radio commercials. What I didn't prepare for was the judgement. The endless amount of guilt laid upon the prints belonging to the Poet. A signal should have sounded off somewhere. Like when the refrigerator door is left open. But like everything else in life. We all ignore the sounds of silence.

The Birth Of An Artist

I have been held in captivity my entire life. My only way out is creativity. No matter the shape of the canvas or the scent of the music. The locked up soul holds no key to the closed off world. Only that being a creative person means a lifetime of imprisonment.

Trusting The Way

Growing in success isn't a guarantee. Being the best is more than breaking records and collecting trophies. The patches of victory we post on Face Book and Twitter are beautiful to stare at. But what if the true gift is supposed to be unspeakable?

The Faith App

Where does Faith come from? Is it an object? Is it a method of thinking more than presenting. I see Faith as being an App that God puts into your system at birth. If its already there then where does it go? Does it disappear? Why is Faith so easily lost?

The Street J In Human Clothes

Was Shakespeare one of the writers of the Bible? Can you turn away from what you believe to be true or do you have to read it first on the internet? Type any verse into Google and a billion different versions appear. Why then aren't preachers and teachers telling their congregations that what they're sharing is an unauthorized look at the big book?

Washing Your Lost Dreams

It's too easy to not to forget. What would happen if we forgive? A simple jaunt through Google lands me on the steps of a Bible verse. The moment influences me to write.

Conversation Not Evaluation

I cherish the moments when I get to sit down and have open conversations with preachers and ministers. I was born to ask questions. Not to change or challenge. But to help smooth out the darkness after midnight's glow removes its mystic from the painting. I don't chase but rather embrace. What would happen if the man inside the control room called me and said, "We can give you six minutes to talk with God." What would your reaction be?

Daring To Be Wide Open

Just because I've been in radio for 35 years doesn't mean I know the lyrics of the songs. More importantly... I have no clue as to what they are singing about unless a book has shared it with me. What about the lyrics of the biggest book? How are you expected to know how to live a life of peace if you're ignoring Gods greatest gift: Experience....

God Doesn't Have A Pointy Head

The most difficult task while multi-tasking is understanding other peoples points. Especially if it includes directions! What keeps us from reaching a point? How did we get to this point? GPS and Google have made us lazy in the art of locating a destination. It's weird being lost. But where are you lost? On a highway of choices?

Who Is Stealing Your Fruit

Being a true leader begins with leading yourself. How you lead people must begin with how you wake up and meet the demands of having to take a shower and brush your teeth. Building a team spirit at work shouldn't be about offering fun and prizes. It's one winner and 99 thousand losers. To create a team requires people. To honor only the top dog is bad business.

Joel Olsteen Is Johnny Appleseed

I've never been a fan of Sunday nights. It's been my most fear filled night of all seven nights delivered. All things connected to my worst of times have roots reaching toward Sunday nights. So I've learned to peacefully put myself in places that may or might... offer something positive rather than negative to hold.

The Visiting Spider's Message Of Love

We've read the billion plus two stories of how rock stars and writers of books take their dreams and turn them into huge success stories. Satisfaction from the Rolling Stones came to Keith Richards by way of a dream. Michael Jackson always kept a tape recorder by his bed. My book Conversation With The Devil first entered my heart through a dream. Do you document your dreams or are you afraid of what they might be saying?

Speak To My Heart God

What happens when God doesn't give you instant answers? What happens if Google proves to be the faster method of digitally downloading answers? I spent three days tightly wrapped around an assumption. Was I in the wrong? Or was God waiting to see how I would react by way of lessons?

Direct Deposit Destroys Trust and Faith

How you are treated at work is how you treat the rest of your day. Talk about **** rolling down the hill! How can you locate trust and faith if where you work lacks it? The idea of building a strong team at the workplace is continues to be the greatest joke ever written. The employees want to invest their energy in building a strong firm foundation. Leadership's decision to fail in faith and trust has shattered the back of the hardest working group in the world. It all starts with Direct Deposit. The boss no longer has to say, "Thank you."

Do We Laugh Cry Or Hide

For some reason I felt like being real today. For some reason the idea of being open had to make its way to the surface. I sit with extremely creative people every day. We're told its a gift. But what is the gift if its endlessly being stolen? God! What were you thinking? Take it back!!! How many people are you injuring when downloading free music, stealing books and or movies. How many people are you injuring by ignoring copyright laws?

Being Lead? You're Told To Follow

I love watching those who believe they've been chosen to lead. I love listening to people speak. It's those at the podium that I wish would one day sit down with a radio station program director and take in what has kept this industry alive for over 100 years. Do you honestly believe its because of great music? It's the art of engagement, content and relationship.

Out Of Body Experience

I love to interview people. It's the art of listening. The way we speak and share journey's is nothing more than me reading your book. But the accent is changing. How we speak no longer carries the adventure that was once part of your community. Mark Twain speaks from beyond incredible words of wisdom.

The 2000 Year Old Sip

Putting something that's living inside something already alive. Rather than being blinded by the unfocused journey's of reaching tomorrow. The process of strength becomes a healing art when the continuation of chapters are recognized by way of gratefulness. Being aware is the teacher.

Talk Isn't Cheap Your Belief Is

CBS Sunday Morning recently did a report on motivational speakers. How they are gifted and or able to lift the spirits of one that's in need and or has the belief that only they have the energy to achieve success. Its almost like someone is saying, "God knows nothing about success." Then again... are today's preachers nothing more than motivational speakers like Zig Ziggler? What if the language God speaks changes? Do you have the right to say, "Hey speak my street!!!"

My Brother Is Broken

When best friends walk through life being treated like they are broken. And yet in their hearts they held a shape of forever love... My brother has been challenged his entire life. But no man nor woman on the outside of his daily walk knows what his heart feels when something so normal becomes part of a new path. God keeps telling me, "I made your brother unique. He can handle this." From the outside I wonder if God knew what he was doing?

Serving Is The Job But What Is The Mission

Breaking down the words we use reaches beyond a childhood game. Do we actually know what we are truly projecting? When someone asks you to serve. What are they truly asking you to do? Who serves and who is doing a job that falls under the definition of serving?

The New Cocaine Is The Workout Powder

Ask me about most of the 1990's and I'll laugh out loud. It moved by so quickly that time itself forgot to wear a seat belt. Before Red Bull and Monster. Before the enormous rush of pre-workout powders. There was once a time when getting up legally was attached to pills designed to look like a great way to lose weight. When in fact it taught the fast paced life and style how to attach itself to energy levels never before felt. You don't become addicted to it. But you begin to question what feeling normal is.

Is God's Punishment Our Memory

I don't take photographs while on vacation. I try never to video tape family and friends. We are weighed down with too many memories. Your heard and heart have been taken over by too much and you are way way too little.

When "When" Leads To The F Word

What is failure but an investment? When do you learn that failure is a tool that will lead you to success? Warren Buffet won't invest in any man or woman unless they have failed twice. Why then are we fighting failure? Why do we feel so pained when failure happens? Warren Buffet has the cheese! Who is the loser? You or the man that thinks success can't happen until you are so weak that mighty men of money can haul you along easier because of your doubts and fears caused by failure.

Questioning The Gift

The journey never seems complete because the pages you keep are unwritten. You have nothing to teach inside a world that forces you to never remember. Unless its painted in the shade of bad thoughts and doubt.

Celebrating Billy Graham

Today is Billy's birthday. 95 glorious years of message making and sharing. In celebration of this nations most famous carrier of God's unconditional love. The Poet that God made me into shares through words the simple questions that may or might have shaped the wisdom of the leader that led so many to the love of Jesus Christ.

Trees Are Sky Speakers

A poetic expression that travels beyond the assumption readers feel. The wandering Poet begins a journey to explain why it is the words were shared and or maybe taken. Looking beyond the words of a Poet is truly a connection to the sky. Who then would be the speakers? Mine happen to be trees.

We Are The False Idol

The body mind and soul belong to the keeper of the maker. You chase your entire life the tail of endless search and rescue. Only to realize that happiness became the choice of judgment. We are guilty of pointing fingers. We struggle each day not only to shape us but those around us. We act as if we are the new God. Computers changed our path. But it didn't give us permission to become the keeper of the pages.

Soul Behavior

We are no longer shapes created by God but rather the end result of research. Consultants make billions doing studies on how a business can profit. It means Dept Heads and Decision Makers must put into play where their money lays. Reshape the human mind body and soul. Build not upon the God given talent of they born with the gift. Take what they have and melt it down. For every human will bend if pressure is applied.

The Farmers Fall

Studying the farmer taught how to find focus in the future. No matter how tick the rock. The farmer knows how to mend his fields. But is it the farmer in control?

Too Shy Shy Like Kajagoogoo

Your most embarrassing moments can actual be reasons to study a deeper meaning and path. Life has it share of lessons. But what if a day at a festival turns into a message that helps shy people reach from behind the walls and begin to locate faith and trust?

Truthfullness Is Painful

I get in more trouble for being truthful. What does that say about society? True leaders don't delegate, They sweat with the lowest paid employee. True leaders know the way. They don't hire and fire those that assume.

The Burning Bush

Texting, Face Booking. Tweeting. We are creating no music for tomorrows grandchildren with great gran children. And it started with our modern day choice.

Make Your Bed Every Day

You are in control. Its your choice to allow bosses to beat you up. Be the CEO of your life and begin the journey of success. Your boss says, You are the man!" Wow is that all it takes to sell your soul?

I Wish I Could Practice What I Preach

God shares gifts with you every day. It's your choice to set them aside. Its your choice to put away your fears and doubt. Its your choice to attain success or wait for it to happen. Did you know its not your choice as to when God calls you home? I'm so tired of people calling their rebirth in life a midlife crisis. Its laziness! You should have been discovering new things every day!!!!

The Un-Halloween Is Your Reality

Learning to speak to the other side is a journey beyond normal... Being a writer. An Author and or Poet. Is the acceptance of knowing stranger things will always become your daily language. While holding a book today. A physical book. Not a Kindle, Nook or IPad. A book. I began to think. Reading the words of any author is no different then speaking to a wandering soul from the other side.

Bewilderment

My favorite book to read is the dictionary. Every word is connected to a story and or event. Today I opened those huge pages that often scare people into changing and I pulled out: Bewilderment.

The Audit

Learning the farming skills of cultivating a field of positive energy.

Gods Gift Is Transformations

As of late... I've heard a lot about transformation. What if God said you could come back three times? How would you handle the possibility? What if it included the requirement of learning how others study and how transformation changes not only your life but others?

Unexpected Messages From The Past

There are moments when pages written several weeks ago speak much louder than the intended whisper. But your heart says, "Listen to the wind not what was written." Do doodles carry messages to the future?

Brave Part Four

In part four we participate with the thought of you being a bully. Your victim is self. It's done in secrecy. Shaming yourself creates storms. How can we add peace to a sky that looks like a weatherman's fantasy?

Brave Part Three

Taking the lessons taught by a traveler and shaping it to fit within the darkness that keeps us from being successful. We allow other peoples problems stop us from achieving a higher level of play. Today's workplace is built on nets. How thick is your net or are you the one being caught daily?

How To Be Brave Parts One and Two

For one week. I've decided to set aside my poetic writing instrument to put faith and trust in a tool shared this past weekend. We're going to be open. Maybe too open. Today we continue our conversation about the storms we create. Anxiety is just as dangerous as driving drunk. I can't imagine what the endorphins are doing to your mind body and soul. We just know in the aftermath...the silence felt is no different than a hangover.

Congratulations You're Pregnant

It's Labor Day Weekend! You are carrying your bosses child.

God's Mulligan Is Your Gain

What's that one thing in your life? Be it a person place or thing. That you wish you could change. Hollywood has made its movies. Books have been written. Blah blah blah. If God gave you a moment that you could step back and change. What would it be? Mine would be the day I picked up a book called Why Suicide.

Create Movement

Without movement. There is silence. You may invite our mind and body to stop. But ultimately it's not the body locked on being overworked and stale to the pale delivery of happiness. Study the art of movement. earn to see how your stream flows by way of movement. .

Key Faub To My Heart

When I was a kid. I thought everybody went to church! I assumed that was part of the process. By my teen years. I learned about indifference. Guess who won? The beautiful blonde girl. Why should I want God anymore when wow wow wow! I gave her the key to my heart. Never realizing that thirty five years later she'd be gone but never once did God turn his back on me. What? ''

Sleepless Not In Seattle

I don't sleep at night. I don't sleep in the daytime either. I get sleep. About thirty to forty minutes at a time. Is this a call for Jesus? Or is it Jesus calling me?

Stop Questioning The Interviewer

If God has already planned out your life. Why do you keep asking questions? The more questions you ask. The more he gets knocked off the origin of his path. When was the last time you looked at who you are and finally realized that what you are is not the person you dreamed of becoming. That's ok! It wasn't meant to be. So what are the right questions?

Being ON is your OFF

Building character is all about taking chances. Putting out there a self that looks bigger than what it truly is. In radio...we call that Theater of the Mind. The problem with living out the character you are on Face Book and Twitter is the number of times you're gonna have to be ON. To be him or her. To be ON. When in reality. Happiness is found in being OFF.

What Is Mindfully Living In The Present

Mindfully living in the present. Everybody from George Harrison to the greatest in spiritual flow and performance have passionately shared their vision and version of what it means to Mindfully live in the present. If you know the way. Then what way are you teaching others to travel?

Quarterbacking With Pointed Fingers

The best commercial on TV right now is T-Mobiles interpretation of what football fans do while watching the game on their smartphones. Only to see the players leap out and begin harassing the fan. What if the people we point fingers at...were given the chance to give it back?

Free Cup Of Coffee

For the love of God! Will you please stop blaming everybody for your lack of success! Stop walking up to the coffee pot expecting it to be hot and fresh. If you want it your way. Then make the coffee!

The 11:00 News Should Feature Your Picture

Depression is back in the headlines. By the droves people will escape their closets. Then by Saturday return. I'm not afraid to talk about the sickness that has weakened me. I base my calling on trying to reach through the thickness of doubt, fear and overbearing silences that barely a normal person can explain. Depression is real. It's not a mood swing.

A War In Road

Why should we stop watching the 11:00 news when everything around us is a replica of what's being reported? Hordes of people herd their way into church every week hoping to locate peace. Where does such an incredible luxury begin and end? Is it through awareness? You might think differently after today.

Breast Cancer Isn't An October Thing

Every year. October has always been looked upon as being 31 days of Breast Cancer Awareness. Once the month is over. The positive motivational signs are lifted from the street. The parades are gone and so are the gatherings where cheering so loud brought incredible tears to your eyes. But Breast Cancer and the threat of it doesn't go away. It's every day!

The Crow Nation's Moses

My stepfather always claimed I had bird brain thoughts and plans. He didn't trust me to lead. He called my methods of speaking an obstruction of thought. Sadly...the moment I got into radio. The accusations continued. No show on the radio came un-sliced. And yet the message from afar kept telling me to stay true to the path chosen before birth. We run from message makers because it feels better to fit in. When was the last time you tried to re-invent a puzzle? There are stories of great spiritual travel you'll never hear. But this is one that does affect your path. Because if someone hadn't stayed true to the message from afar. The world would be different today.

Numbe One By Default

Every one of us can name ten to twenty people that have verbally abused us this week. Add on the five to ten others that stole your art and or gift to create to better their life and style. But shared nothing when the victory was scored. I've spent more time trying to recover from the accepted abuse than any other time in my 35 years of Broadcasting. Its ok to abuse in 2014. For the decision maker starts the process giving permission to those below him or her to continue the leadership methods of intimidation. And yet not once does God do this to you. Doesn't he have the final word?

Moods Are A Choice

I am a hypochondriac! If its anything bad. My path will always become poisoned. I allow everything around me to shape my moods. But is that being fair to God? That's like walking into a Home Depot and never putting fuel in the chainsaw then complaining that it doesn't work.

Coffee Verus Jesus Who Wins

We love getting high. High off caffeine. High on religion. But in most places of business. Latching onto a Jesus fix can be an invitation to visit the wonderful people in Human Resources. And f you're like me... Too much coffee cause acid reflux and the end result is a 25 dollar bottle of Zantac. Sooo where do we go to get a rush? That high! The internet. To vent everything negative. And the problem is... we're getting away with it.

Tomorrow's Stories Started Yesterday

When you've been chosen to write. Most wanna walk away. The expectations are too big. Judgement from friends and family too heavy. The idea of being a writer is a lifelong journey of chance versus fate. In the middle of every step is a new word. A new idea. A misguided wonder. But how true are you to the creator that gave you the story? Is this a mission of wanting to be published or a goal to hear the true vision before others can see it?

Withdrawal 2014

Giving up something that totally makes your world rock is going to cause withdrawals. They hurt. You shake. You instantly become angry. You have no time for anybody but trying to figure out new ways to feed that emptiness.

The Dick The Dork And The Deer

The rules were made to change. No matter how many bad calls are being made by man made refs and umpires. The strength to make your own call. To keep peace and not incite unrest is the invisible way to sell your soul.

The Blank In Your Stare

It is a strange but true world. So strange and true that its become nearly next to flu like to say, "I am blank. I have no feelings." And yet your eyes tell a different story. If your eyes are the window to your soul. What then gives while in communication? Blank is not the new black.

Write Versus Right

Are we spending way too much time trying to "Right" what we assume is wrong? What is "Right" when everything feels wrong? How can you push yourself through a mountain of doubt if everything you feel is "Right" doesn't agree with those "Wronging" your life?

Barbed Wired Fences

Perception versus actualization. How can business and the pleasure of being part of a family exist when everything we do is perceive? We are the butt of every joke but refuse to admit in the mirror. Every generation before us is painfully laughing. Because they can't cry anymore. You've blamed your reasons for being you on them.

God's Call

Preacher's around the world brag of how God made the call. How God pushed them into religion. How God bolted their souls to the front door of a church they'll never leave. Spiritually speaking. God makes the call to every one. Even if you aren't a planter of peace. You still have a message. No matter what your choices are. The call doesn't always have to be about... the book.

Dreams versus Trash

Staircases... Your life is a series of steps. Which direction are you going?

Pen To Paper To Bookstore

What if what you write had a deeper purple other than fill a trash can? Sleepless nights? Really? Maybe you should be asking about who is trying to speak through you.

The Book Of Black Crow

Black crows love to make a lot of noise in the morning. Why? What are they saying? Don't they care about you not getting enough sleep last night? What does it mean when the crow steps onto your path? Is it to be yelled at? What if God uses his other living creations to continue spreading his incredible message?

Too Inside For God's Reality

What you think is impossible and lost forever. Has a strange way of walking up to you during a moment of extremely few expectations. No matter how old you are. No matter how thick your skin or long your dreams. Life hands you a fist full of family members. And even fewer friends. Friends that begin to drop off the path due to a desire to be successful. Friends that should've been born into your family but... you know... that success thing has a way of grabbing you by the nads and saying, "There is only one way." Then one day your paths cross unexpectedly. And the only emotion you share is laughter.

Get God In Your Head

In martial arts we are trained: Wherever your head is... so shall the body flow. Then why do so many try to stuff God into their hearts?

The Evolution Of Sand

The process of invitation must include change. Instantly we run! Quickly we hide. Change? Nobody likes change. Yet without change there would be no smart phones. What if your life, your experiences and doubts blessed with fear and shame. Are part of a giant rock that God needs to turn into sand? Sand that rubs up against another shore. What if the process of invitation includes what you have lived to be a learning tool for others to breathe?

20 Years Of Daily Writing

What started out as a letter to my sister Margaret has turned into twenty years of daily writing. God finds ways to communicate. The choice is based on whether you've decided to listen. It's not easy! I mean to wake up every day and put pen to paper! And yet... if I don't. Where does God's voice go to be heard? Is it God speaking through me? That sounds totally ego based! Cuz I ain't one of those crazy preachers that scream, "God told me to touch the hand of a lost man." What is lost in a society that brags of having everything?

Ancestors In A Digtal Age

Who shaped you? Wouldn't it be nice to think it was the end result of a very beautiful evening? I never want to know what created me! I never truly met my father. He was there for three years. Which makes me think... maybe I was the end result of make up sex. No human heart can withstand the pressure of how it is they came into being. And yet we are told to follow the trail put into the earth by way of ancestors. Really?

Why So Much Hype In Hypnotize

Seriously...is it really July already? How did we get here so fast? Why is life moving and the rest of me can't catch up? Who is hypnotizing you? What if its you?

The Ballad Of God And HR

The weather patterns this summer are mind blowing. Even more powerful are the accusations against God. How dare the creator do this to your July 4th weekend!!! With the way we like to complain. God would be hauled into Human Resources and reprimanded for his weather behavior.

Stop Saying I'm Sorry

Too many times during the average business day coworkers and friends are allowed to beat the hell out of your emotions followed by the quick, "I'm sorry." Too many times during the average week we accuse ourselves of being forgetful. We've lost our memory. Seriously? My new book Scrambled Eggs is about a man that had his memory taken away. But damn him! He won't convince himself to quit making new ones.

Not My Calling

We hear it everyday! You have answered your calling. Be it a brilliant player of sports, financial planning, a doctor, chef or someone that sweeps the streets. I believe we have this thing called, "The Calling" mixed up with the true story of gratitude.

Destination

Who are you? Are you the you that dreams are made of? Are you who they wanted you to become? Do you have the strength to believe in the self you were given at birth? Have you allowed yourself to sell out? Only to find in later years that everything you wanted to be still has life? Your body has been patiently waiting for the outside shell of the person you became...to look out across the horizon and say, "I want to help paint the next sunset."

The Veins Of A Living Tree

How many times do you toss away chicken scratch? Words unevenly layered into the weaves of a napkin or sheet of paper. Can you count the number of times you've accused God of not talking to you?

Windows Are Your Weakness

My oh my we love to look outside. Those windows are wide open! Yet few of us realize. There's always someone looking in. There's always gonna be someone that wants in. There's a lot you don't know about yourself yet the world sees everything you are through a window.

It saddens me that so many radio station this past weekend broke format and played old American Top 40 shows that featured Casey Kasem. Radio stations that have and continue to fire Broadcasters from their positions of communication. Radio stations that brag of playing the music but fail to share the stories just like Casey Kasem. Radio fails to grip the journey. They'd rather cut and paste. Casey Kasem invited connection. Two dots. The artist and the listener. If Radio wants to pay tribute to one of the greatest storytellers of our time. Don't air the show! Hire Broadcasters! Teach the future of radio how to share stories like Casey. Get the physical act of one on one communication back on the air. Get Program Directors back into the seat of creating a connection with listeners. We can get a song from anywhere anytime. We can't pick up the art of what an on-air talent delivers unless there's a reason to want to listen. The fact that we are here in 2014 isn't the greatest moment inside our well talked about chapters. How we evolved into who we are is based on how God has worked through people. For God's word to work. He realized early...use real people. Use their voices to influence and or inspire. Be real and there will be art.

The Doubting Soul

We wander through office space. Meander within the collection of stores at the mall. Complain about nothing making it all too simple to be something. And yet we leave out the most important voice. The one that didn't bring you to the dance. But they were there when you screamed for the first time. Signaling to your mother and doctor that you were alive.

Is God Protected By Copyright Laws

Kind of weird how everybody seems to feel like they are owed something. When what they hold didn't belong to them. I laugh when preachers get mad at pastors and ministers feel violated when authors borrow from their handwriting. The process of plagiarism is tossed out like candy at a Thanksgiving Day Parade. I laugh. Out loud. A man that stands in front of his congregation claiming that God told me. God said this to me. Can never be plagiarized. God gave them the words. God doesn't play favorite student games. God gives to one. God gives to all.

Is God A Black Belt

A division point. That single most unimportant place. I mean. We are completely set on paths and patterns that we've forgotten that there's always a choice. But elect to take the manly man way out. And or the easiest because who has the time?

I Don't Want To Write Anymore God

I call writing my sickness. I have accused my passion to write my addiction. I don't write because I want to. I write because the power is too overbearing and I have to release it through a writing instrument. But the judgment. Oh the harsh actions of others that fail to understand what has been written. The slaps. The punching. The verbal beatings from those that don't want to see the positive in the flow that comes from God through me and into a readers next decision becomes too tough to handle. So I asked God to take me off his list of writers.

Three Of The One Thousand Twenty One

I didn't set out to write a book that still sits on the new age religion bookshelves. I was embarrassed when the publisher labeled my book religious. How dare you call me a Preacher! And yet in the way that I write. Its anything but heavenly or spiritual words of advise. Ask those that have been to the pages. They'll tell you what "They" pulled from the lyrics of my soul. And what they yanked on. Broke free from the origin of roots was their interpretation. I get in more trouble writing words of positive value than I did breaking the ten commandments. It's just not fair! So every once in a while I step back a few years and share the true story behind the emotion given to me by God. So that others may hopefully learn from it during the day you least expect.

Lesia Cartelli Angel Faces

About the founder: Lesia Cartelli endured a serious burn injury over 50% of her face and body from a natural gas explosion at her grandparents' at the age of nine. The home was completely destroyed yet her spirit survived. Not wasting her pain, Lesia is the founder and director of Angel Faces®, the first and only national nonprofit organization whose mission is to provide healing retreats and aftercare support designed to inspire adolescent girls with severe facial disfigurements to achieve their optimum potential and develop meaningful relationships for themselves, their families and their communities. Angel Faces® You Will Never Forget Their Stories San Diego, CA, June 4, 2014 – For young girls with severe and permanent disfigurement from burns or other traumatic injuries, the cruelty of the world can be almost unbearable. The stares, name-calling, teasing and cruelty of others create a sort of living hell for this special group of survivors. Lesia Cartelli knows this is true, because she lived through it herself. Her desire to heal from a serious burn injury over 50% of her face and body at the age of nine in a natural gas explosion encouraged her to create Angel Faces for girls who suffer similar disfiguring burns and other traumatic injuries. This year, the retreat is in Wolfeboro, New Hampshire on June 15-21, 2014. It is the first year that the retreat is on the East Coast. During the multi-day, intensive retreat, survivors hear first-hand from Cartelli about her injuries and the long road to recovery. The young girls work closely with licensed therapists to share and explore ways to facilitate emotional healing and meet others with similar struggles. They learn to use new tools that will help them increase their self-esteem, decrease their depressive symptoms, and have a better quality of life. Most important of all, they are given hope that they can create the life they desire through empowerment. "The retreat is only one small component,” Cartelli explains. "We see the fruits of our labor when the girls go back home. We receive several calls and emails from the parents and medical centers about how confident and content their daughter/patient is since she has returned -- she joined a sports or academic team at school or now is going to prom, or interviewing for a first job, ending their social death.” This year the girls are coming from San Diego, Houston, Galveston, Miami, Michigan, Florida, Indiana, Kansas, Tennessee, and New York. Angel Faces® is a national not-for-profit organization, headquartered in Encinitas, California, whose mission is to provide healing retreats and ongoing support for adolescent girls and young women with severe and permanent disfigurement from burn/trauma injuries to achieve their optimum potential and develop meaningful relationships for themselves, their families, and their communities. The unique retreats and aftercare programs focus on the healing process within a holistic framework of mind, heart, and spirit. In addition to art therapy and private, corrective-cosmetic sessions, the program provides licensed therapists to help the girls through their loss and trauma issues, and provides the girls with strategies to handle staring and teasing. The goal of Angel Faces® is to offer a physical, spiritual, and emotional transformation so each girl walks away with a new confidence and a hopeful outlook toward the future with the skills to be excited about their life. For more information, please visit the Angel Faces website at www.angelfaces.com.

E Group On I Heart Conflict

Conflict. Why does it have to be such a numb word? I believe the word cons us into believing we can just flick our troubles off our shoulders and move forward. And yet the weight of world keeps shoving your knees deeper into depressions you can't explain.

Family Values First Mountain Man From Duck Dynasty

I can't go to Google and tap in the letters required to send me to a Mountain Man bio. I just have to say. I honestly felt like I just talked to a damn good old friend.

Beyond Materialistic

We can't afford martial items any more. The things that used to purchase happiness. Bosses and coworkers still attack you on the work front. What is HR but a protection device for the business not the employee. Who can you trust? Where can you find hope and faith. You need all three to greet you in the center of discomfort tomorrow as well as today.

Alice's Kitchen

What is an echo but another reason to keep from locating inner peace....

Waves Trickles and Rob Schneider

Often accused of being extremely disconnected from the modern world of business success. I still stand straight up knowing bosses and business owners aren't leaders. They rob from the hardest working generation in history. They steal not just the money you deserve but your energy and everything that could and will make you beyond brilliant. Then...in walks actor comedian Rob Schneider. You gotta love radio and how being in the moment turns a pond into a cool place for bugs to hang out.

God Won't Pat Your Back

I still laugh at preachers that claim God talks to them. I want to know which plan at Verizon they got to get the call. Who and what is a God that doesn't text message you? Why should we trust a creator that makes him or herself invisible inside a society that plasters every photo they can get onto Face Book and Twitter?

The Words You Say

If... If we just watched what we said. If we could watch what we say. When you least expect it. It's what we say that gets the best answer.

Its Not WhoYou Know

Taken directly from my difficulty to wake up this morning. I wasn't alarmed by the alarm. But rather wakened by what I was seeing in my dream. Taking the experience and placing it in a modern 2014 society. You begin to see. Maybe it wasn't truly a dream. But a message.

Seasons Are Every Reason

In every season there is a reason why we stop growing. In every reason there is an excuse as to why we can't accomplish success. I've heard it all. And yet I learn more everyday. The art of being human is simply a canvas with nothing painted on it. Because that requires a destination that we want others to do for us.

Preacher versus Teacher

People laugh and point fingers. I laugh and point fingers back. How else can you explain that God speaks through you than to publicly admit that you are one of God's choices? The problem with religion is that its a business and who you know is what leads you to helping to change people's lives. Spirituality leads you to places of quiet darkness. It is there that you set aside your desire to be a preacher and become one of God's teachers.

Still At War With Time

I've never been a fan of time. No moment passes that I don't feel like I'm wasteful of what little time God gave me to live and breathe. It's extremely difficult for me to see through other people's reasons for wanting to be late. But whose right? Or are we both moving left?

Remove The Label

The infield of the Charlotte Motor Speedway is an ever changing working machine that's been spoiled by real people being themselves. In the past few years major corporations have sent into the infield their top dog stars to study the craft of the hardest working person on the planet. Bosses are undercover. I find tremendous joy in locating the bosses. Not to blow their cover. But to create communication with their reasons for wanting to be real. When all they ever had to do was remove the label.

Mike Boettcher The Hornets Nest

The Hornet’s Nest is a groundbreaking and immersive feature film, using unprecedented real footage to tell the story of an elite group of U.S. troops sent on a dangerous mission deep inside one of Afghanistan’s most hostile valleys. The film culminates with what was planned as a single day strike turning into nine intense days of harrowing combat against an invisible, hostile enemy in the country’s complex terrain where no foreign troops have ever dared to go before. Two embedded journalists, a father and son (Mike and Carlos Boettcher) bravely followed the troops through the fiercest and most blood-soaked battlegrounds of the conflict. What resulted is an intensely raw feature film experience that will give audiences a deeply emotional and authentic view of the heroism at the center of this gripping story. INTERVIEW WITH MIKE BOETTCHER FROM THE SAN ANTONIO CURRENT MAY 16th Award-winning veteran war correspondent Mike Boettcher has seen a lot during his more than 30 years working as a journalist. From being kidnapped by terrorists in El Salvador in 1985 to surviving an attack by a suicide bomber in Baghdad in the mid-Aughts, Boettcher has found himself in a number of extremely dangerous situations throughout his career. In the new documentary The Hornet’s Nest, Boettcher and his son Carlos, both working for ABC News, spend two years in Afghanistan capturing footage of U.S. soldiers at war. The Current sat down with Boettcher during a tour stop in San Antonio a couple weeks ago after a screening of the film. Q. Tell me about the first time you ever stepped foot in Afghanistan. A. The first time I stepped foot in Afghanistan was early 2002. The war began after 9/11 and I went there, and there actually weren’t many troops coming in. When I stepped foot in Afghanistan, there’s something about that country – that part of the world – that has so much history. You’re stepping foot into a place that has been the crossroads of history for millenniums. That was not lost on me. I knew anything we would undertake there was not going to be easy. Q. In The Hornet’s Nest, you go into Afghanistan with your son Carlos by your side, who is also a journalist. Was it difficult for you to be a journalist there doing a job and also be a father who obviously was worried about his son’s well-being? A. The story takes a whole different spin with [Carlos] there. I’m a dad, so I’m looking out for my son. I’m with my son in one of the most dangerous places on earth. The one thing I couldn’t let happen was I couldn’t let my son die. People always tell me they think it’s fascinating to see a film about a father and son in a war zone telling the stories of the war. We never wanted to tell a father-son story. But people thought Americans would want to see that part of the story. We acquiesced and went ahead and told those stories about the father-son relationship because it’s something everyone can relate to. Not everyone can relate to war. Through the father-son story, we wanted to tell the bigger story of the war with all these other fathers and sons and mothers and daughters who are over there. Q. Why don’t you think Americans relate to the war today? A. I think you can see a feature movie about a war or watch a news story, but you really don’t feel it. That’s why I wanted to make this film. I wanted the American public to feel the sacrifice of war. I wanted them to feel immersed in what really happens. People die. It’s not pretty. People have a hard time relating to that. We’re here [in the U.S.] and we are safe. We have two oceans on each side of our border. We don’t have to worry as much about the war and aren’t as attuned to our security as nations in Europe are. Q. During the Bush Administration, the American public was never allowed to see caskets of American soldiers. That, of course, has changed in the last few years. Do you feel like that is something we needed to see to understand the sacrifice you’re talking about? A. Absolutely. In the early parts of WWII, the War Department prohibited images of U.S. deaths being shown in American newspapers. People forget during WWII, there was a period around 1943 where support for WWII was flagging. President Roosevelt made a decision and it was filtered through the War Department that those images could be shown. The first time the American public saw the consequences of war was, I believe, after the Battle in Anzio (in 1944). Photographs were shown. It galvanized American public opinion to continue supporting the war. It’s a little known historical fact. So, hiding the consequences is not the way to go. We need to show what our people are doing out there day after day after day to connect U.S. citizens with the decision to go to war. Q. By the end of this year, the U.S. should have most of its troops finally out of Afghanistan. I know you’re going to be there with the military during that drawdown. How do you see that playing out? Q. We’ll see. I believe we’re still going to have about 5,000 troops stay [in Afghanistan]. Those will not be combat troops, but support troops. I think we have an obligation to see this through. Look, we pulled the ripcord and pulled everyone out of Iraq and Iraq is in total chaos right now. As Secretary Rumsfeld has said before: If you break it, you have to fix it. I think we have an obligation to support these changes that our involvement after 9/11 brought. We have to be able to help the Afghan army supply itself. We have to help with political processes and have Americans there to continue trying to movie Afghanistan toward democracy. We have to have people who can build a judicial system. We have to have people who can train police. We must continue our involvement for a period of years until Afghanistan can stand on its own. Q. You’ve been covering the war for so long, would you say you’ve become jaded by the things you’ve seen? A. I used to think I was jaded, but then as you grow older you realize these are experiences that someone is experiencing uniquely. You may have seen something like that before, but for them, they’re in the moment. I think I took my job for granted for a few years. I was really excited when I got into journalism, and I covered all these things early. What I did was something important. What I think we need to do as journalists is embrace every day. Every day is a new day. There’s a new story out there. That’s why I love this job. We never know what we’re doing the next day. As I’ve gotten older, I’m now more excited than I was when I was 21 years old. Q. When you look at the makeup of the young U.S. soldiers who are fighting these wars, what do you see? After 9/11, people were signing up for the military because they had a sense of patriotism. Is that still the case? Are 18 and 19-year-old kids signing up because they feel they have a sense of duty to their country or has that changed? A. I think a majority of them still join because they want to serve their country. There’s something in their upbringing that compelled them to serve. Of course, some get in because they don’t know what else to do. Q. Does that make a different type of soldier? A. Initially, yeah, but once they’re there, they all become the same. I think they become committed to their fellow soldiers. The fact that they’re somewhere doing something important resonates with them. Everyone [joins the military] for a lot of different reasons, but what goes through that training funnel and comes out the other end are people who really love their country and have a connection to what it means to sacrifice for this nation. I actually think there should be some form of required national service. You don’t have to serve in the military. You can work in our schools. You can work to rebuild our nation. I think that younger generations need to be connected to their country and what it means to serve it. We get very individually orientated and lose sight of the bigger picture. People take the freedoms of this nation for granted and they shouldn’t because it could all go away. Q. What does it feel like to put your life in someone else’s hands when you’re on the ground in a country as dangerous as Afghanistan? Again, I know you’re there to do a job, but I’m sure the soldiers you are with feel some sense of responsibility for you. A. I feel like my life is in my hands. I made the decision to go there. I don’t want the soldiers there next to me to feel like they have to protect me. Now, they do. I don’t have a weapon. But I’m a volunteer. No one put a gun to my head and told me I had to go to Afghanistan. Frankly, when it comes to warfare, there are few people in this country who are more experienced than I am. So, I know how to take care of myself.

Accepting Weirdness

We are all born weird. It's our choice to keep it from hitting the surface. We fear judgement. We fear doubt. We fear the success of building quality relationships based on how weird we truly are.

Hello God Is That You?

What do people mean when they say they heard God speak to them? How can you believe it? Why would anyone believe that Jesus walking about in his day would be the son of God? Where do thoughts and words come from? Is it the Devil wearing a mask? Why not? You believe everything you read on the web.

Barbara Walters Isn't The Hammer

After fifty years the Broadcast industry celebrates the passion and drive behind this industries greatest interviewer. Never once. During the the fifty years. Has Barbara Walters hidden her tools from those chasing careers in the communications business. Her being available to speak about her successes isn't what she's allowing you to learn from. She isn't the hammer that drove the nail. She is the carpenter that borrowed the hammer that kept the platform in place. True leaders in Broadcasting are never afraid to share the art that invited them to interviews and performances. True Broadcasters know it can all go away just as fast as it arrived. In every book that Barbara Walters has written. She isn't bragging of her successes. Think openly at the tools this carpenter is handing to the next generation.

Haaving Too Much

Why aren't you happy at work? Because too many want and when their needs are being met. They're accused of wanting too much. Why aren't you happy at home? Can we stop wanting? Can we pull back from desire and figure out a better way to take the sting out of being lonely?

The Disconnection

Have you ever paid close attention to the voice of your next breath? There is sound when you suck in air. There is sound when you release air. But when shifting gears. When in is swiftly turned to out. There is silence. What did your Mother hear when God breathed your life into her womb?

Word Doodling

The act of word doodling is nothing more than tossing thought onto paper without going back to erase. Just set the stuff free. Who cares how your perfection habits have destroyed your path! Who cares about what others may or might think! If God put you on this planet to please everyone... then you wouldn't be anything but sad. Your gift is that imagination. There are no rules except... if what you write offers injury to someone... get rid of it quickly. Those dark moments will come and go. But the act of word doodling will introduce you to a self that has always been there. This stuff will make you laugh, learn and live.

Rick Springfield

Simon & Schuster’s Touchtone imprint will publish Springfield’s fiction debut, MAGNIFICENT VIBRATION. Already receiving rave reviews, Booklist says, “Captivating, poignant, and hilarious, MAGNIFICENT VIBRATION proves that some of the most interesting stories can come from pretty unlikely places.” The deeply meaningful and over-the-top novel features a hero who has hit a dead end in his life but who serendipitously receives an 800 connection to God via an inscription in a mysterious self-help book and who just may have a shot at saving the planet. "The only good grades I ever got in school before I was kicked out were for creative writing,” says Springfield. “I thought that fiction might be in my future but then my career took a different path once the Beatles showed me what a blast being in a band could be. Writing my memoir reminded me how much I love the craft. So I decided to give fiction a shot again. MAGNIFICENT VIBRATION is the result. I’m still not quite sure where it came from, but once I got going, it practically wrote itself. I’ve heard writers I admire speak of that phenomenon, so maybe I’m on the right track.” Springfield’s autobiography, Late, Late at Night (Touchstone 2010) entered The New York Times best-seller list at No. 13 while also landing on the Los Angeles Times and Publishers Weekly top-sellers lists. Rolling Stone named it one of the top-25 rock memoirs of all time. In Late, Late At Night, which Springfield wrote entirely himself, Rick speaks frankly about the depression he’s battled throughout his life. “I’m not the shiny, happy guy people think I am. I suppose they confuse who I really am with my stage persona,” says Springfield. “But good can come from hardship. Depression causes me to over-analyze events in my life, and that’s actually a bonus when it comes to songwriting. Hey, if things had gone my way at the time and I’d gotten laid, Jessie’s Girl would never have been written.” In 2013, Springfield teamed up with Dave Grohl on Grohl’s multi-faceted passion project, Sound City, which encompassed a documentary (Sound City), an album (Sound City: Real to Reel), and the Sound City Players tour, a string of critically acclaimed shows with fellow documentary subjects including Stevie Nicks, Trent Reznor, John Fogerty, and Lee Ving among others. The Foo Fighters served as backing band for Rick’s set with Dave Grohl’s notable declarations during the performances as, "I want to be Rick Springfield!" and “Bucket list. Check!" CraveOnline called Sound City: Real to Reel “a powerhouse collection of some of the greatest musical talent ever ass1embled.” Springfield and Grohl co-wrote The Man That Never Was, which was inspired by a true story from World War II. “Writ7ing music can be a solo endeavor but at its heart, rock is collaborative. Working with Dave and the Foo Fighters was collaboration at its best. Those guys are true musicians: creative, spontaneous, generous, and talented. Working with them was a great experience.” The Man That Never Was has been widely recognized by critics as one of the best songs on the Sound City soundtrack. “The highlights… are led by Stevie Nicks and, yes, Rick Springfield.” (People) Springfield has also been hailed for his part in the documentary: “The film's breakout story is arguably Rick Springfield.” (Rolling Stone) The Sound City: Real to Reel CD also won the 2014 Grammy® for Best Compilation Soundtrack. In October 2012, Springfield released, Songs for the End of the World, his 17th studio recording and collaboration with songwriter Matt Bissonette. Songs for the End of the World addresses the need to be consoled and cherished in an age of anxiety about the future of the planet. Filled with personal lyrics and giant hooks, it’s a pop/rock tour de force. “It's high energy,” Rick explains about the album’s mix of moods. “At its core, it’s about looking for love and solace while the world around us—everything we once felt sure about—disintegrates. Even with the end so palpably imminent, we’re still human beings, filled with longing and—maybe against all odds—hope. I believe music is healing,” says Springfield. The Tampa Bay Times said, “Springfield remains one of the best live entertainers of his generation -- maybe the top dog -- so if he wants to explore darker closets on studio albums, I'm not going to discourage him one bit. Especially when the result is a project I enjoy as much as this one.” Also in 2012, an independently produced documentary titled An Affair of the Heart captured the relationship between Rick Springfield and his loyal fanbase. The documentary debuted at numerous film festivals, winning special jury awards at the Nashville, Florida, Boston, and Daytona Film Festivals. An Affair of the Heart premiered to record numbers on the EPIX channel in May 2013 and is now available on DVD. In the early ’70s, Springfield had a handful of hit records in his native Australia before emigrating to the United States. Bouncing between record labels and looking to make ends meet until his musical career took hold in the US, he resorted to acting and eventually landing the role of Dr. Noah Drake during the heyday and cult phenomenon of daytime TV’s General Hospital. Simultaneously, the explosive success of his breakthrough 1981 album Working Class Dog was followed by Success Hasn’t Spoiled Me Yet, Living in Oz, Hard to Hold soundtrack and Tao, establishing Springfield as a multi-platinum superstar. Despite his original and unwavering passion for music, many at the time mistook Springfield for a soap star hoping to convert daytime success to a faux and possibly fleeting music career. History proves that nothing could have been further from the truth. Springfield is content to let his music and four decades of productivity speak for itself. “If you pay attention to where I’ve put my time, who I really am becomes clear.” In addition to General Hospital, Rick’s other notable TV roles include a 4-episode arc on Californication, Hawaii Five-O, Drop Dead Diva, Hot In Cleveland and the 1994-1997 TV series High Tide. Springfield’s current musical career renaissance can be traced back to the albums Shock/Denial/Anger/Acceptance (2004) and Venus in Overdrive (Ume, 2008), which entered the Billboard sales charts at No. 28, his highest debut in 20 years. In 2005, Sony Legacy’s released the retrospective double CD Written in Rock: The Rick Springfield Anthology. Official web site: http://www.rickspringfield.com/

Your Story Watch What You Are Saying

I don't read Face Book and Twittter entries. 98% of the time. I don't know what the author was trying to say. I see words. I assume emotions. Rather than fight my way out of the hole the author delivered us to. I choose instead. To walk away from having the opportunity of being buried.

From The Heart With Bill Waterman

He gave us his extremely successful career. He chose to help make a difference. The plan is 100 millions times larger than he is. But he doesn't allow the mountain to move him. Do something

When Rainbows Cry

I find it fascinating as well as entertaining to page backwards and participate with thoughts written sixteen or more years ago. Inside an age when barely a memory remains. And the man with the writing instrument unveils the slightest of slight and or the emptiest of times. And still finds something positive to share.

Ben and Julianna Zobrist Doble Play

BEN ZOBRIST AND HIS BOOK DOUBLE PLAY TAMPA BAY RAYS ALL-STAR MLB BASEBALL PLAYER BEN ZOBRIST AND POP MUSIC ARTIST/WIFE JULIANNA ZOBRIST TO RELEASE AUTOBIOGRAPHY All-Star MLB baseball player Ben Zobrist (Tampa Bay Rays) and pop artist wife Julianna Zobrist are gearing up for the release of their highly-anticipated autobiography Double Play. Co-written with best-selling author Mike Yorkey (Linspired: The Remarkable Rise of Jeremy Lin), Double Play will publish nationwide on April 1, 2014 through B&H Publishing Group, prior to the 2014 MLB season. Double Play is an autobiography that gives fans a remarkable look into the hearts of an athlete and artist whose talents and devotion to each other, their faith and family make them one of the most respected figures in Major League Baseball and pop music today. Their latest project offers practical insight, encouragement and stories of life and love that both men and women will find inspiration through, to live their lives to the fullest potential, while providing a rare behind-the-scenes glimpse into the life of this powerful couple. The book features 16 chapters with split narratives between Ben and Julianna, giving readers a candid perspective from each author. From childhood through adulthood, the Zobrists share poignant accounts of life events as they talk about the obstacles faced along the road and the journey that has led them to where they are today. During the off-season, the Zobrists are dynamic speakers who share about marriage, relationships, baseball and their faith, affecting the lives of others in a powerful way. That impact is seen on the playing field as well, as Sports Illustrated recently named Ben as "one of the most valuable players in baseball," due to his flexibility and his combination of skills. But, Zobrist sees his purpose for life far beyond baseball or the world’s recognition. "Double Play is raw and honest," says Ben. "(It shares) an honesty that will hopefully spur us all on to seeking out the truth which has absolutely nothing to do with our merit or deeds.” A recognized pop music artist who is actively involved in film and radio, Julianna shares her husband’s passion for being a testament and witness to others. Exemplified by her current album Say It Now, the title cut encourages others to speak up and live boldly – the music that her husband uses during every MLB game as his walk-up song at home plate. Coinciding with the release of Double Play, Julianna is currently in the studio recording her third project, working with top producers in Los Angeles and Nashville. Through Julianna’s heartfelt music, she continually touches the heart with her personal lyrics that stem from her love for Ben, her commitment to her family and her passion to share hope and a message of faith and life with a world in need. “I want to live a life that shows my daughter how to love her husband like they are newlyweds forever and a life that seizes the crazy moments and makes them fun,” says Julianna. “I want to live a life that shows my children and others watching, how to live fully…not simply how to be balanced.” In addition to the baseball world, Ben and Julianna often speak and perform at festivals, churches and schools throughout the year. Their impact on those they speak to and the many that they regularly pour their lives out to gives them the drive and motivation to reach out in as many ways as they can. “How we were brought together as two pastor’s kids from the nation’s heartland to form a double-play combination, is a unique story that we love to share,” says Ben. “Now we’re teaming up in Double Play to share our journey.” The Zobrists live in Tennessee for four months out of the year during the baseball off-season; Port Charlotte, Fla. for a month and a half during spring training; and then in Tampa Bay for the regular season. Out of the six baseball months, they are on the road for half of them. As parents to two young children, the Zobrists know that their lifestyle involves sacrifices, but they are also willing to make those sacrifices to be together as a family as much as possible. They know where their commitment lies. Double Play is a powerful and vulnerable account of the heart. “You may be entertained sometimes, hopefully encouraged and perhaps challenged even,” says Julianna. For more information about Double Play and Ben & Julianna Zobrist, please visit www.thezobrists.com and follow them on twitter @TheZobrists

God's Chirp

They say the world has been overtaken by sound. I believe... Man has made it too noisy. We love our digital devices. But through their way of making it into our lives...other shapes of creativity have changed. Man might be the most creative of all shapes but the end result seems to be more noise. The sound of baseball without a cell phone going off. I sat in church yesterday and an incoming text from the other side of the room took my imagination off the God game. What sounds from God are we missing?

YOLA You Only Live Once

The hottest phrase paying off on the campus is YOLA! It's given students of all ages. A free pass. Teachers nor parents want to challenge YOLA. It's true! You only live once. But that doesn't guarantee the heart and soul peace. It only challenges you to seek a newer better high. There's such a thing. An addiction to excitement. And nobody wants to confront it. YOLA!

Dee Wallace

Motivation can sometimes be the most misunderstood path. It's not that we don't know what it means. We just haven't figured out how to use the energy it generates. It becomes too easy to move back into those old pair of slippers. Some people ready novels and autobiographies. Others feast on the colorful curves of comics and fantasy. I've always loved books of motivation. To take what's being offered. And put air in its tires. To try out the spin in the wheels. To twist of the soul. The bend in the knees. Then put it outside this shell. As if to be giving away a slice of hot fresh southern style pecan pie. Dee Wallace is a blast! Instead of racing into the pages expecting an instant change. Spend every day discovering incredible things about yourself. The energy is mind blowing. The excitement of feeling great about tomorrow is worth reaching for. No matter where you travel. Vampires will suck the life right out of your dreams. Dee Wallace makes being you. Adventurous! More importantly...accepted by the mind body and soul that brought you to the dance. You... Thirty years ago, Dee Wallace, a gifted young actress from the wilds of Kansas, dropped into Hollywood with hopeful expectations. Two years later she landed the role of a lifetime and walked onto a soundstage knowing that playing Mary, the smart, funny young mother of Michael, Elliott and Gertie, was going to change her life. Born into a loving but impoverished family, Deanna Bowers was the bright, beautiful peacemaker of an alcoholic father and a mother who put aside her own dreams in order to support her husband and maintain a happy, stable home. Like so many others who will relate to her childhood, Dee grew up under the push-pull pressure of wanting to perform and make her father proud - and happy enough not to drink - and at the same time remaining quiet and sweet so as not to give family anger a reason to surface. With welcome clarity and honesty and without a trace of self-pity, she writes about these experiences as she was growing up, including her father's tragic suicide, and then shows how, until examined and reconciled, they kept cropping up again and again in her personal and professional life. Even readers whose early lives were less dramatic and ultimately less tragic will be guided to recognize these same self-destructive patterns, and cheered to know their own bright lights, once uncovered and freed from fear, still burn. Indeed, even with the unprecedented critical and popular success of “E.T.” and stellar reviews of her performance in it, the next years did not bring the expected acclaim and financial security. Rather, they brought her the opportunity to leave fear behind as she somehow lived through the loss of her soul-mate, the knowledge of perfect love as she welcomed her long-awaited and only child, and the time to look at the life she had created and the ability to re-connect with her inner light and begin to create something new: herself. It wasn't the red carpet life she had expected, but it was so much better. Wallace has never stopped working in film, television and stage, and has more than 130 films and scores of television roles and series to her credit. She is currently among a handful of in-demand actresses for guest starring roles in TV drama. Her irresistible presence on speaking forums and two top internet radio shows have made her a sought-after inspirational speaker, spiritual teacher and healer. Dee is a true tour de force, working with every kind of co-star from Cujo to Lassie, as well as countless directors, producers and some of Hollywood's biggest names, including Peter Jackson, Wes Craven, Joe Dante, Stephen King and Blake Edwards. Ms. Wallace became an icon in the role that would define motherhood for a generation, as Mary in Stephen Speilberg's ET: The Extraterrestrial. Her 150 films range from some of the scariest to some of the funniest ever made, including Cujo, The Howling, 10, The Frighteners and Critters. She has starred in four television series and more than 400 commercials and is one of Hollywood's most sought-after TV guest stars including appearances in Grey's Anatomy; Cold Case; Without a Trace; Ghost Whisperer; My Name is Earl; Criminal Minds, Saving Grace, Law and Order, and The Office. A beloved acting coach, she is also an internationally known healer, with two global radio shows and a series of healing seminars. Her insight into the joy of “conscious creation” was one of the reasons she was led to share her knowing with a larger audience through Bright Light. In her recently released third book Bright Light (O-Books), she takes readers along on Wallace's emotional, spiritual and professional journey but even as we cheer for her triumphs and grieve for her unbearable losses, she doesn't allow us to sit on the sidelines as merely an audience to her life. Rather she uses her journey as a metaphor for always expanding the lessons she experienced in her own life to a larger wisdom valuable for all of us. Her gifted writing is inclusive, reaching out to connect with readers as with unflinching honesty she takes responsibility for the manifestation of pain and disappointments in her life, as well as the creation of love and happiness for its joys and successes. And she beckons her readers, who almost imperceptibly recognize their own journey, to learn from the spiritual lessons, which are the focus of each chapter. CLIPS OF DEE Excerpt from "Unscripted" interview - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19_sWA5_VAE NewsLA Feature: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RURu4UGdyzQ&feature=youtu.be Headline News: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfQkROqP9o8 GMA - http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/video/dee-wallace-lessons-life-acting-13718450 KCAL - http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2011/08/02/behind-the-pages-of-actress-dee-wallaces-bright-light/

Texting While Dreaming

Has there ever been a time when dreams haven't changed the path you've walked? The older we get. The more I hear people say they've stopped dreaming. The difference between having a dream and actually dreaming is huge! Dreaming of being a radio jock in LA... I gave up on that. Dreams about flying? I had one just last night! Why do we dream what we dream? Have you ever taken notes?

Photographs Black More Than White

The value of money is what so many live for. What is the value of friendship? The one lesson they don't treat in high school of Sunday School. The speed of life. One day. No matter how young you feel. The eyes looking back from the mirror. Are now eighty plus in years.

Bad Joke

Telling a bad joke is part of life. You can't get across this journey of challenges and changes without telling a bad joke. Then talking about it on Face Book made it even worse.

The Support Team Of The Bad Guy

In every movie we're always introduced to a bad guy. The bad guy has a circle of friends, family and business partners. A support team! When things go wrong. That team goes down one by one. But the bad guy lives like nothings gone wrong. Who is making all these bad guys leaders? How can you stop yourself from becoming one of them? Do you honestly believe Ernie Madeoff learned his craft by looking into the image in the mirror. Someone taught the bad guy to be a very bad guy. He too should be in jail.

The Stream vs The Rock

I've always searched for the reason. The purpose behind why so many creative minds and souls,,,,stop. It's become my sickness to try and figure out how God has given away a seed. Only for the human to drop it without care or concern. Wait... Maybe it's not their fault. Who is forcing you to stop dreaming?

The Center Point Of A Divided Circle

The world continues to brag of the Great Recession being over. Yet there is no growth in the personal lives of middle wage makers. The rich are getting richer and the poor? What is poor? The most positive people I've ever met are those that society has labeled the carriers of nothing. Where do you stand? How do you stand?

Forgiven He Has Risen

I have never met a person that doesn't pace through life wanting to be forgiven. No matter what the sin. Preacher's tell you Jesus forgives. That's cool. But what are you doing about it? Yes Jesus rose from the dead. But what are you doing about it? You want the forgiveness. It comes in handy. It soothes the heart and soul. But what are you doing about it? Forgiven is a great place. But what are you giving forward?

What Does Go Mean?

We aren't a lazy nation. We aren't followers. We aren't biding our time so others may break down the walls for us. What are we then? Misunderstood. A world over saturated with too much opportunity and not enough leaders to show you the way. Go! Go be you! Go do everything you want to be!

E Group On I Heart week 5

The division between the states of the heart have masterminded too much for the cup of emptiness. What are the tools required to refill the creeks and lakes that once served as places of happiness. This week Jana and I take from Pastor Furtick's message and place them inside modern day struggles. How to achieve when what you achieve means nothing to those stealing from what little you have left. Where is your cavalry? http://www.elevationchurch.org

The Depth Of Heaven

I love asking questions. You don't have to answer them. Because on the opposite end of your expression. I'm going to ask more questions. I'm not out to test the hands of time. Nor am I out to set free the anger so many people feel when asked questions. You have the right as a human to want to know. Its in the silence of not asking questions that sales people enter your lives promising the rainbow. And in the end. You got a headache.

When Words Hurt

Sometimes we laugh. Other times we cower away. Word throwing and the acceptance of it has become so popular in 2014. I'm shocked that it hasn't made it to Reality TV. In martial arts we practice a game called Verbal Tae Kwon Do. Understanding the power of the words being thrown. Grasping immediate control of our own emotions before reacting in ways that will be looked upon as being wrong. Is there a choice as to how you can handle the stress caused by words that hurt?

Watch Out For Volume-teer-ism

Giving is a beautiful idea. I love giving. I love sharing. I love it when the end result becomes an act of acceptance. To which millions upon billions easily become addicted to. For everything you are willing to give. There is a taker. They don't care how much they take. You were willing to give. All that was once beautiful has now made you extremely angry and pain filled. So what gives? Without having to face another taker.

The Choice To Write With Julia Cameron

It would be impossible for anyone to count the exact number of lives that have been freed by the simple touch of a writing instrument. Allowing the wind to move through you is no different than a mountain feeling its got the strength to keep the sun from warming a special place on earth. Whispers of fear and doubt clog the seasons from moving toward avenues of peace. Then God said, "Julia... I need you. Are you available?" Get a special discount now! IHEARTRADIO will save 25% on The Artist's Way Video Course at juliacameronlive.com and will never expire Her books

Unconditional Connection

I have returned to the center of my sacred circle to openly talk about a dream. Or was it?

Insight of Incite

Through every change there is challenge. Inside every challenge there's always going to be a rock that stops the flow of forward motion. Parents today tell their children, "Use your words." No! Those words aren't insightful. They incite.

I Thought I Was Stronger

Greatest Teacher Never Known

It's incredibly tough to be you. How did you? Why did you? Then again...are the experiences you've met lessons that could be taught? We meet. We greet. We play and we explore. How many marriages are destroyed over the simple side of a persons life that no one knew or understood? Books written by Arroe

Creative Prayer

Even at fifty one I have no clue as to what is and isn't looked upon as being prayer. I'm amazed at how easily preachers can jump into it. But as a thirty five year broadcasting professional I often wonder if what they are saying is just as fake as me talking about how great the new Taylor Swift song is. I mean. I love Taylor Swift and what she has done to the presence of songwriting and performing. But do listeners believe me? Arroe's books