Awake Or Aware

While driving toward the sunrise this morning. I openly admitted that I didn't know if I was awake or aware. Suddenly we wake up and its 30 chapters later. Where along the way do we place blinds over the changes and challenges? We are aware of the storms but are we awake to experience them? If we are to grow forward and outward. We need to retrain our bad habits. Its time to be awake.

Skyping At 88

My father called me fat. This after seeing me on Skype. He had never seen me before on a computer screen. He had no clue that I was still 2000 miles from him. He could have said anything but chose instead to say, "You're fat!" What? How could that be a positive?

Have You Heard It

I am the first to shy away from the path when someone shouts, "God told me to tell you this!" Ummm why is God so choosy with whom he is speaking with? Do you have to be perfect? Do you have to name your children after books in the Bible? What's up with this world if God is only talking to preachers. Or am I wrong? What if God endlessly talking and you aren't listening?

Trust Starts Where

There is a place where you can call safe. But how willing are you to come out of hiding? There is a place where you can endlessly grow forward. But how wanting are you of being creative? There is a place where the wind gathers it collected words and hands it out to poets. But are you ready to write?

Trust Starts Where

here is a place where you can call safe. But how willing are you to come out of hiding? There is a place where you can endlessly grow forward. But how wanting are you of being creative? There is a place where the wind gathers it collected words and hands it out to poets. But are you ready to write?

The Choice To Choose

What is prayer? Is it the conversations we share with ourselves while driving? Is it the words we utter while doing lawn work? Is it what we shout out when life doesn't give to us what we wanted in this moment?

The Reflection

I have one connection. In every book I've published you're always going to read something about the reflection in a mirror. Not an avenue of conceit or poor leadership. But a reflection. How many times does the reflection we project not represent your present place? Too often the reflection we see isn't the reality of the moment but a chapter from a past that just won't go away.

Beyond the Blizzard White Canvas

The choice to be creative is something that's nearly next to being too easy to set aside. I'd rather tell someone I'm no longer creative then to explain how and where the art comes from. Artists are interesting in the way that its up to the ego to decide where the truth lives. The ego is easily bruised. The ego gets high too quickly. The ego is what in a world where we were all born to be creative?

Walking Forward

Do we have reasons not to listen to the wind? Why do we wish and want when the answers could be a slight sound heard just to the right? Today is what? It's a reflection of yesterday. When you collect enough of them. You have a journey. But within those pages were you the teacher? What if your hand was being led by something you couldn't see?

Understanding Continuation

I do not believe that we are designed to leave the footprints left behind. I believe that where we stand is a continuation that stems back to an age that memories no longer participate with. But the bigger player inside a world of participation knows where and how the arrival began. Look at a leaf. Stare into the soul of metal. The continuation of all things alive. Become tomorrows reasons to believe.

Automatic Draft

Just because someone speaks openly about their studies doesn't always qualify them to play first base for Team Religious People. Studying the word of God comes with multiple battles and disagreements. There's more drama within the chapters of dropping money in the plate than there are reasons why you should try and figure out what your local government is spending. But because I'm public with my love for God. Automatically I've been drafted to a team. The game is on. And I've asked God to bench me. I'm not gonna play.

From This Place Called Pet Peeves

The demand isn't always what others put on us. We are collectors of the little things that drive us crazy. Its not illegal to own a Pet Peeve Mill. We horde thousands of reasons to have a bad day.

Seeking Silence

I know! To write? Ha! A joke right? I mean... who has the time to write? Authors and Poets are freaks! Why would anyone want to locate the answers to a single line? A line that just happened to take the shape of a word that became a sentence. A stupid line! Who will see it? Does it matter? What if your life could feel less heavy by way of making a single line?

Your Gift Makes Others Millionaires

'm not afraid to look at someone in the eye and say, "What do you plan to do with the gift that God shared with me?" If we stood up and supported the gifts from the creator. There would be far less pain at the workplace and home. Stand up and protect your gift. Millions of dollars are made each year thanks to what you bring to the world. The economy can't survive without a collection of gifts... Yet we are the generation that's gone numb on protecting the selves we have become.

Wordsmith

In an age of so much texting and typing. We have fallen onto the sword of silence. Our words are collected structures of run-on sentences. Or so short that assumption becomes the injury. I've been asked a billion times to stop sending emails. People don't understand the inspiration that I've chosen to share. Rather than fight. I've chose to revert back to face to face conversations.

Unconditional

Take a writing instrument and break it. Teach yourself a valuable lesson. Stop throwing away what you think is failure.

Stop Nibbling On Success Bite!!!

It kills me to sit and listen to the stories of how people walked away from their dreams. It hurts worse when professional ball players can't stay loyal to the fans that made them famous. We spend so much time nibbling on the hook of success that we've trained ourselves to become quitters.

This Clock Has Three Hands

INFO COMMENTS I get very vibrant with multiple colors when someone uses my time to gift their pocket. Vibrant as in verbal. Time is so little. Bit when you keep giving it away. How much time do you have if at any given moment God can call you home? You are not being selfish when you are short on sharing your time. People that want your time are selfish for thinking that you are always willing to just give away your music. Your time isn't a free download. Your time isn't a free cookie at the front of the grocery store. Protect your time. Who cares if you're labeled a jerk? You don't don't need to give away your time in order to feel accepted. When life is over. Will all those that stole your time be with you?

Weathering The Storms

One of the reasons why I am so pushy on the thought of teaching others to pick up a writing instrument is due 100% to our need to locate the teachings of our origin. Nobody around you has a grip on your true thoughts. We are actors! But through a relationship with your inner self... the storms you have today were probably discussed in daily writing yesterday or several years ago. We do leave messages for our future selves. What is it you were so willing to share... but forgot to write down?

Who Owns A Rivers Rocks

The most painful part of these modern days of digital connections isn't our lack of noise. But the physical use of stealing other people's noise and making it your own. Looking deeper into the process of noise. Can we live without it? Why is it so important for there not to be silence. And yet we create silence every day when we steal other people's arts. But who are you injuring most?

Learning To Live In The Present

One of my greatest challenges hasn't been surviving 36 years of a constantly changing radio world. My battles and scars are based on trying to learn how to live. We live so much in the past that we allow the pains of yesterday to be alive years after the origin of the injury. But how do you live in the present? I believe it starts with learning to identify what type of person you are. Are you a talented. Are you passion driven? Are you a visionary?