Changes coming up for 2014
2014 I say will be the #YearOfTheJanifer. I think many of you have started noticing it with the instagram photos showing up on my facebook fan page. That’s just the beginning. In 2014 I’m going to be making more posts…
Impossible
Right now a friend of mine, Joelle is battling stage 4 breast cancer. Also, the son of my head pastor is battling an aggressive form of cancer, which had returned after he was listed as in remission. Yesterday, not necessarily…
Taking Steps: A Week Out
It’s true, I haven’t blogged for a week. Life found it’s way into my schedule. I’d call that a good thing. Gigs are starting to line up, which is great. It’s most likely going to be a great help, since…
Taking Steps: Day 30 & 31- Anniversary
This weekend is the one year anniversary of the day I got baptized. Last year I went to New York Comic Con on Saturday, then got baptized on Sunday. I had been invited to go to watch the filming of…
Taking Steps: Day 29 – Not Going By What I See
I suspect this is going to sound pretty dumb for quite a few of you, but sometimes it’s the dumbest things that prove to be the most effective. I got a heath screening today. Most of my numbers were fine…
Taking Steps: Day 28 – Faith Step 1
Had an impromtu call come in for a poker gig this evening. I was nowhere near dressed for this. It was happening in the city and I had to decide fast if I should do it. Now, I know by…
Taking Steps: Day 27 – Teaching Others
Tonight was my first night co-teaching a workshop for Actors InC. Generally I run the online portion of Actors InC, making sure the videos were edited and posted, making sure articles were up, and adding stuff like a live google…
Taking Steps: Day 26 – Righteous Anger
One of the books I’m presently reading is Malcolm Gladwell’s “The Tipping Point”. I just finished the part where the author talks about the Bernhard Goetz trial in New York. I remember that case. Being a lifelong New Yorker, it’s…
Taking Steps: Day 25 – It’s All About Balance
Going to make this short and sweet right now, to keep with the title of this post. I have a headache right now. It was most likely brought on by me not drinking enough water today while going for a…
Taking Steps: Day 24 – Direction
Dave Ramsey talks about budgeting as “telling your money what to do before you have it”. It’s an interesting concept, and once, that up until recently, I didn’t quite understand. Very much like the old theory “the universe abhors a…
Taking Steps: Day 23 – Creating Footsteps
One of the rules I live by is that, whatever I do in my life, for my children to be able to look back on my life and think “Mom was cool, and she didn’t have to get drunk or…
Taking Steps: Day 22 – What Is Important?
This evening I was visited by a friend of mine who recently survived a serious car accident. Only eight years before, a friend of his was in a similar accident, but died. Because of this accident, my friend felt his…
Taking Steps: Day 21 – What You Give, I Give To You
Something interesting happened during worship team practice today. As we were singing one of the songs “You Are Worthy (of all the Honor)”, I watched as people were getting into it and losing themselves in the singing. As I was…
Taking Steps: Day 20 – Clarity Amidst Confusion
I will admit on occasion I still battle with negative thoughts and emotions. The onset of these feelings are, at least in my mind, are from the past, and I have yet to completely disengage from those neural pathways. They’re…
Taking Steps: Day 19 – Blinders
If you ever look at a racehorse on a track, they usually have blinders on. The blinders are generally used to keep the horse focused solely on what’s ahead of it, rather than get distracted by what’s around the them….
Taking Steps: Day 18 – Intention
What is your intention? When you do something, what is your primary goal? When I started this course of action, blogging daily and doing this introspection and working towards a goal, my intention was to keep myself locked in on…
Taking Steps: Day 17 – Breaking the Rules
A lesson I learned this evening. There are times when you should follow the rules and times when you should break the rules. You need to answer these questions though to consider which one is which: Who made the rules?…
Taking Steps: Day 16 – More Than A Mouthpiece
While walking in my faith, I’ve come to understand that sometimes the limited way of our thinking is the illusionary gate that hems us in. Maybe it was created by us or it was created by someone else and we…
Taking Steps: Day 15 – Effort Does Count
Have you ever heard someone say “effort doesn’t count”? I’m finding more and more that effort, as long as it’s dedicated, directed effort does count. I’m also discovering that if you don’t plan, stick to that plan, and aren’t intentionally…
Taking Steps: Day 14 – Push Past the Pain
This evening I decided to head home after work and walked 5.4 miles in about an hour. At the half way mark, my route ended at the Whitestone Bridge and a very large body of water. At that point I…