Rise up, you women who are at ease…. Why am I driven, at this particular stage of my life, to understand aspects of behavior and how that plays out in an average day, (Launch Points, Respond or React)? I feel certain that I live very near the end of this present age, an age that will culminate with Jesus return to earth and eternal reign. Having said that, you could make an argument to dig a trench, jump in, and wait it out. But I know that as the age of grace draws to a close, so do the opportunities that are unique to it. I believe life is about love…

A man’s steps are of the Lord; how then can a man understand his own way? ~ Proverbs 20:24 ~ RESPOND: to do something in reply. REACT: to do something in reply, emotionally. If you read Launch Points, you’ve thought a bit about whether you launch predominantly from your heart or your head. This delves a bit deeper. What most characterizes you as you encounter people and circumstances? measured, balanced, careful, thoughtful, pragmatic, grounded, intentional. ~ triggered, hasty, spontaneous, impulsive, impetuous, off-kilter. I’m speaking more about a default reply that shows up in the normal course of a day….just daily life. It’s important to point out, you can launch from your head and…

When wisdom enters your heart, & knowledge is pleasant to your soul, discretion will preserve you…. ~Proverbs 2:10-11~ I’m always looking for bits about how people take in information. It’s very interesting to me to learn why a person sees life the way they do, & even more, how they respond based on what they see. Largely, I believe we take in information from either our hearts (emotionally), or our heads (cognitively). This is simply a point of entry (in truth, all stimuli enters through the brain but for some of us it moves at lightening speed to our hearts). The perfect scenario would be that information, once absorbed, would have…

Folly is joy to him who is destitute of discernment, But a man of understanding walks uprightly. ~Proverbs 15:21~ Loss of awareness follows the loss of objectivity. Both are dangerous. Both keep you from being present and capable in your life story. The one who’s lost her objectivity and subsequently, her awareness, can no longer bring her full faculties to bear. She becomes relatively ineffective in her own story, and in extreme cases, ‘out of the game’ of her own life. God cares deeply about having his children present and able to ‘be’ in the moments of their lives. He is about reestablishing awareness where it’s been lost and restoring…

I would never buy a book with this title. It’s ridiculous. O well. I’m musing about the systems God invented and put in place when He made the universe. He designed earth to essentially look after itself. Geology, astronomy, chemistry, these are all systems. Our physiological body is a system. God made them all. Humans like to make systems too. We crave predictability and control, doing what we can to project into the future, creating structure (the system’s 1st cousin), to minimize discomfort and maximize our life experience. We do it on a global scale toying with climate control and we bring it to the household in the form of…

Somewhere in my late teens, I naively began asking God to make me a person of character. What on earth was I thinking?! My reasoning went like this: When trouble shows up in my life (which I knew it would), I want to be capable of choosing a high-road, a road I see people avoiding at great cost to themselves and others. 12 years ago, sitting quietly with the Lord, I felt the Spirit gently deposit a clear message to me, “Anne, you have no idea the depth of the deceitfulness of your own heart.”  As I pondered that message, which I very often did, I assumed God was speaking about outside…

You, O Lord, are a God full of compassion, and gracious, Longsuffering and abundant in mercy and truth. ~ Psalm 86:15 ~ 1,056 years separate God’s creation of Adam and the birth of Noah. Genesis 1 through 6 gives enough of a lens into the general character of humans, that if nothing else were written, you would know all you need to about our base nature apart from God. It does so more through what isn’t said than what is. We humans like to live autonomously. We like to make our own decisions and we chaff against anything that would usurp that power. Whether we live in Eden or Sodom, our general disposition derives from the thirst within us…

“We are drowning in information but starved for knowledge.” – John Naisbitt (Megatrends) ~ …always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. ~2 Timothy 3:7~ The quote and scripture verse above tell the plain tale about why modalities like Facebook don’t suit me. My temperamental psyche cannot manage bits and pieces about people that I am not in active relationship with. For the most part, I have no internal modem that knows how to file or retrieve daily details with anyone other than my primary people. I realize I’m the exception and have no qualms with those that find Facebook and other similar information exchanges helpful…