John 15

Come to in order to go for.

Hope

Near rather than nearly.

Brain Storm

The left brain storming toward the heart to join the right brain in order not to tip over from what it often trips over.

Stonewalled

The 1st question should be "Who will move the stone for us?" Mark 16:3-4 The quest for the right question that causes us to look up so that we may fall down is answered. It's hard to see if the stone is before us or behind us without the right question.

Frustrated

The impatient quickness of anger attempting to slow down by anger.

I AM

When you are certain about your future, you can concentrate on your present. It is a new birth day. Psalm 118:24

Surrender

Determined humility. 

Stillness

Silenced idle words.

Baby Steps make a Leap

A thimble full added to a glass half full is the series of incremental breakthroughs that allow us to see through what we got through.

Wisdom

His tenderness entering our ignorance. Without tenderness, there is no understanding.

Smile

Wave machine.

The Right Beat

The war drum in my ear drum warning me of anything that will take away my peace. 

Wisdom

A drink from the fire hydrant of perpetual novelty. Always newer in its knew-ness.

Ego Green

The color of pride when one is so caught off guard, wounded, and so busy trying to assert or reassert self-confidence, that one's ear can't hear to listen. It can only naively hear how to save face at all costs. The wounded and proud ear listens instead for what everyone might be saying rather than listening out for the well-being of others.

Wisdom

In the common sense approach to nuts and bolts reality, the pain of confusion or the confusion of pain can make common sense impotent. I call this the gap theory. Wisdom fills in the gaps of common sense in an immediate need or task that has hit a pothole or sinkhole.

Procrastination

Refusing to turn off the scenario cinema often expressed as "But, what if......?"

Passivity

A sinkhole appearing as a safe haven.

Burnt by Fear

Charcoaled shades of grey. Blackened white. Colorless pupil. Angry people.