David Ponder receives Decision 5: The Joyful Decision from an odd choice; Anne Frank “Today, I will choose to be happy. I will greet each day with laughter.” Anne Frank was born the same year as MLK Jr, Barbara Walters, and my grandmother (Matilda “Tilly” Shea). I know my grandmother, who I called Greer, had...
I have a decided heart. This epitomizes the fourth decision. In “The Seven Decisions,” Andy Andrews writes, “A decided heart is unwavering in the face of continual challenges and setbacks, and that ensures victory and a lifetime of greater fulfillment.” We are no longer to get caught up in analyzing things indefinitely. If we do,...
The wisest man to ever live was King Solomon. In 1 Kings 3:5, “At Gibeon the Lord appeared to Solomon in a dream by night, and God said, ‘Ask what I shall give you.'” Most of us have fantasized about what we would do if we were given three wishes from a genie. Solomon would...
The last thing David Ponder cried out before his car smashed into the tree was, “Why me?” Often, many of us who are not in the place we wanted to be, making the money we want to make, or not doing the work we truly want to do, are like David and wonder, “Why me?”...
I am not a fan of resolutions since they are hard to maintain and easy to give up. According to researchers from Edith Cowan University, two in three (67%) people give up on their resolutions by January 31! What do we do after we break a resolution? We usually beat ourselves up for a bit...