by Debbie W. Wilson | Feb 17, 2014 | Discernment, Giving, Life skills
Jewish tradition teaches that charitable giving creates a pathway for blessings to flow back to the giver, says Rabbi Daniel Lapin, author of Thou Shall Prosper. Jesus said, “It is more blessed to give than to receive.” But some efforts to help actually hurt the...
by Debbie W. Wilson | Nov 11, 2013 | Direction, Discernment, Personal Growth, Pets and Faith, Relationship with God
I watched “Jack” tell his yellow lab, Buttercup, to wait. He then crossed the room and turned his back to her. “Sit.” “Stand.” “Down,” he said. His dog responded to each command. My daughter and I enrolled our two standard poodles in obedience training. “Jack,” a...
by Debbie W. Wilson | Aug 30, 2010 | Direction, Discernment, Life skills
We were building our house in Raleigh when Hurricane Fran whipped through North Carolina. We went to bed in our apartment that night expecting to dodge the worst of it, but awoke to devastation on a level I had never before witnessed. Seventeen large pines had...
by Debbie W. Wilson | Aug 23, 2010 | Courage, Direction, Discernment, Faith, God's will, Life skills, Trusting God
This week I found myself having to say “no” when it would have been easier to say “yes.” While wrestling between what I thought I should do and what I felt uncomfortable doing, I heard myself telling a client, “If you know the right thing to...
by Debbie W. Wilson | Jan 1, 2009 | Direction, Discernment, Life skills, Newsletter, Relationships
Many people get into trouble because they lack discernment. Maybe you have seen people get into bad relationships, business or personal, because they ignored their discernment radar. When the vibes were negative, they assumed they couldn’t be godly because they...
