And we are back.  Hello.  I am so glad you are here.

It is the 2nd day of January and our year is off to a wonderful start.  I pray that you feel that way about your year.  The beauty of a new year is the opportunity for a fresh start.  In order to receive that blessing though, we must first believe that it is a fresh start and ideally we have something we are working towards and looking forward to.  That, my friends is the power of purpose.

I want to invite you to join me in reading a proverb a day in 2018.  

Today, I was reading Proverbs 2. Verse 2 says if we make our ear attentive to Wisdom and we apply all of our power to the quest for it, we will be able to understand God and what He wants for our life.  That is my brief paraphrase of the Amplified Classic bible.  The key here is that this is an if/then relationship.  If you do this, then you will have that.

Let's think for a second about what that means.  God is...