To have good friends you need to be a good friend. It is foundational on love as a never ending commitment. Are you a servant in the relationship, and look out for their best interests? Patience and understanding is needed during tough times. Being friendly with a genuinely cheerful outlook matters. People like to be around positive people. At the end of the day, true friends become family. Read more

A friend is a safe harbor that is often God’s messenger of His grace and healing in the most critical of times. A friend is a person with whom we can share our solitude, our silence, and our prayer. A friend is the person we share our most intimate secrets with, or nothing at all. With a friend we don’t have to say or do anything special. With a friend we can be still and know that God is there... Read more

We can look at our lives as moments of discipline or regret. Discipline because we see the opportunity to change, and see the past as lessons learned, or regret because we do not have the hope for change and look at the past as a constant weight of perpetual failure. Seek after godly wisdom, and take action into the disciplines that take you on the right path for your future. Forgive yourself for missteps as you seize this day in... Read more

Fear changes us and takes us from the confidence of unconditional love. God reminds us to “Fear not! My Perfect love casts out fear, and I have come to you and made my home in you, forever”. We are free to relate with the Source of all life. Welcoming unconditional love gives us the ability to become unconditional lovers for Him. Jesus came to convince us that God’s love is a pure gift, unearned, and lasts forever. Read more

Are you friends with yourself? Do you love who you are? This impacts our capacity to love others. We are wonderful but limited, may have success with insecurities, yet beyond all that we are people with spirits with sparks of the Divine. When we trust that we are unconditionally embraced by a loving God, we can befriend ourselves and reach out to others in loving relationships. Read more

What truly counts is not the length of our lives but the quality and impact of how we lived. Jesus was in his early thirties when he was killed. Anne Frank was a teenager when she lost her life. But their short lives continue to bear fruit long after their deaths. Live a life of significance and infinite value, while trying to live every moment in gratitude, wisdom, joy, and peace. Read more

Currency of the Kingdom is relationship and the currency of relationship is conversation. The quality of the conversation directly influences the quality of our relationship. Sharing of hearts is transformational, beginning with God and extending to others. People near you want to engage in conversation with you, and a conversation that flows well both ways as it harvests relationship that reveals God’s glory. Read more

Community is not a talent show in which we dazzle the world with our combined gifts of intelligence, health and wealth. In true community there can be many forms of poverty beyond economics, such as bankruptcy in spiritual, emotional, and physical health. New life comes from acknowledging one another, and the richness that comes from needs being met through the sharing of each others lives. Read more

Who has time for a hurting friend when it is easier to be with the healthy ones? “Newsflash” we all are part of the imperfect tribe of humanity. When we errantly dismiss people, we hinder their growth by ignoring gifts that are often buried in their wounds. Agape Ambassadors know that strength is hidden in weakness, and that true community is a fellowship of the weak with a very strong God. Read more

Emotions impact how we awake each morning, and how we react to life each day. Present conditions can impact our emotional ability to overcome. Being aware that present conditions happened because of previous causes is a first step to renewed emotions. Having faith that God is with us and wants us to be his instrument to a better tomorrow, gives us wings to soar over our present reality and be his agent for change. Read more