Have you ever woken up when it was still dark outside and been completely confused to what time it is and where you are? Your mind starts asking questions like, where am I? Is this my room, my bed? Is it morning? Did I oversleep? In the first moments of waking, your mind isn’t completely alert and you struggle to figure out if what you are experiencing is reality or you’re just dreaming. Confusion fills your mind, which sometimes moves to fear. With complete consciousness and turning on lights, comes relief because you know where you are and what is happening. Life can also be like this. It can be…

Can you imagine a life where everything always went your way?  A life where no one ever took advantage of you, said bad things about you or made you look bad. A life where circumstances were always in your favor and happiness never faded. Where there was always enough money, always enough love and never a misunderstanding or miscommunication. Just imagine if everything was always fair. Wouldn’t that be great? No sorrow, no grief, no sadness, no worry, no anxiety, no disappointment, no frustration, no anger, …. What a great picture it paints. A Utopian life.  Life all good, all the time. Wouldn’t that be a great life? Isn’t that what…

Ever have those times when you are in the valley of life and everything seems to be turning upside down? Where you feel like everything seems to be going wrong at the same time?  It’s enough that you have to fight one hard battle. But when there are several at the same time, what then?  What do you do when everywhere you turn in your world there are hard circumstances?  How do you keep your spirits up?  How do you keep your faith? I know this experience.  I’ve lived this experience.  Its hard.  Its hard when you are struggling through things that are out of your control.  There are so…