Morningside Devotionals

The question gets asked often, as much as any other, that's for sure, and it's not unusual because we seem to believe that what a person does for a living is a large part of who they are?  Now you know me well enough to see ahead and know that I don't go that way in my thinking, even though I know on the surface such is true, when you dig beneath that surface appearance a bit, there is where you see what is real. Just this past Sunday a man stopped me in the hall and asked me, "hey I sit in class you with and you seem to be a pretty smart person, but what is it that you do, because it seems like folks really listen to you?" Well, he asked, so I told him. Hmm, wonder what he thought of that? For example, my friend Chris Voss who does " The Chris Voss ," show, seems on the surface to be a free-wheelin', fun lovin', let it roll, sort of guy.  But that's Chris's public persona, and here is what a little study of Chris re...

Hard To Believe Reality-Click Here One of my associates works at an extremely time intensive site, and, they simply do not have time to consume a book of ideas- SO- that's why I came up with that page called "taking it deeper"- sometimes you'll see a new post over there- sometimes not, but if you get a chance and want to check it out, usually there will be some new thing going on- as in Proverbs 21:13:  Here goes the video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqZvSbTuj9o There is a thing about who is watching and who is being watched, put another way, the beholder and the beholden? Who are the poor, is that a reference to monetarily poor, because quite easily one can see it might be a reference to poverty of all sort? And really what happens when someone is impoverished is the tendency of others to not listen to them? This is a fantastic Proverb for social media because it so clearly tells us that we can be heard, and that when we hear, we stand ...

GALA - What a word...  - Pro 18:1 - Proverbs 18:1 "A man who isolates himself seeks his own desire;  He rages against all wise judgment. The Hebrew term for the translated "intermeddleth" ("rages against all) Rage which sounds more like networking and sharing in our age, doesn't mean that at all.  The term is "gala" which is pronounced just like we say the "gala ball." It means, however, to expose or lay bare, to bring ones self out in contention.  Wow- that's quite different from what you might have imagined, isn't it?  Yet that is wisdom, we think we get it, but usually, we have to learn it. "Gosh I feel warm and fuzzy..." "O.K., already Dana, you don't have to beat us over the head with it,"  yes, but sometimes that is such fun, wouldn't you agree?  I can remember when a friend and I used to wrestle in the front yard, it was fun; seeing who could get on top and wi...