Point to Ponder: Is your attitude worth catching? I often times think about the song I learned as a child in Sunday School, “O Be Careful, Little Eyes”, with hand gestures to complement each verse. This song encourages us to guard our eyes and ears and control our mouths, hands, and feet. As a child, I didn’t understand the depth of the song, but as an adult, I get it. What we say, what we look at and listen to, along with the places we choose to go, all have consequences and

Point to Ponder: When faced with adversity of challenge, how can you change your perspective in how you respond? Last week I was in conversation with two different friends and talking about two separate topics and their comments were ironically similar. Though not verbatim, they said something like: “I wonder what the spiritual lesson is in this?", or in other words, I wonder what God, the universe, a higher power, life is trying to teach us. I love it when introspective thou

Point to Ponder: How would someone describe your attitude? Positive or negative/optimistic or pessimistic? While the benefits of optimism and positive thinking are no longer cutting edge news, new research is proving that the effects of positive thinking and optimism can be the difference between a flourishing, healthy and long life, or not. Having recently gotten a hold of some powerful facts about optimism, positivity and resiliency from the Positive Psychology Center at t