by Chris Maxwell | Feb 15, 2016 | Blog
cheap shots from the gallery wear us down over time. at first, we are prepared, and the initial attacks meet the resistance of zeal and determination. the questions come and we listen and we learn, or we laugh. but, like a boxer tiring from repeated body blows,...
by Chris Maxwell | Feb 10, 2016 | Blog, Book Excerpts
-Today’s blog is from the book Pause: The Secret to a Better Life, One Word at a Time. Pick up your copy on Amazon or HERE. Take time to glance out the windows. Remember the past. Forgive and be forgiven. Notice the pain and be healed. Smile. Discern the...
by Chris Maxwell | Feb 7, 2016 | Blog, Book Excerpts
-Today’s blog is from the book Pause: The Secret to a Better Life, One Word at a Time. Pick up your copy on Amazon or HERE. We are people who wait and wait and wait. For the money, for the answer, for the invitation, for the assurance. We wait for the call; we...
by Chris Maxwell | Feb 5, 2016 | Blog, Book Excerpts
-Today’s blog is from the book Pause: The Secret to a Better Life, One Word at a Time. Pick up your copy on Amazon or HERE. As circumstances of life shift from pleasure to pain, we long for assistance. We want certainty from a source we can trust. We suffer...
by Chris Maxwell | Feb 1, 2016 | Blog, Book Excerpts
-Today’s blog is from the book Pause: The Secret to a Better Life, One Word at a Time. Pick up your copy on Amazon or HERE. Most of us are too plugged in to the system of our days. I am. Unplugging is a choice, not a requirement. It frees us from the bondage...
by Chris Maxwell | Jan 27, 2016 | Blog, Book Excerpts
-Today’s blog is from the book Pause: The Secret to a Better Life, One Word at a Time. Pick up your copy on Amazon or HERE. The “song” of a painful experience from our past hits replay way too often. We hear it and feel it and experience it over and over and...
by Chris Maxwell | Jan 25, 2016 | Blog, Book Excerpts
-Today’s blog is from the book Pause: The Secret to a Better Life, One Word at a Time. Pick up your copy on Amazon or HERE. Reflect: What are your favorite seasons of the year? What are your favorite life seasons? How is this journey of traveling through life...
by Chris Maxwell | Jan 20, 2016 | Book Excerpts
-Today’s blog is from the book Pause: The Secret to a Better Life, One Word at a Time. Pick up your copy onAmazon or HERE. What we’ve touched in the past affects what we are now touching. The painful touch of past hurts can cause resistance to risk any more...
by Chris Maxwell | Jan 18, 2016 | Blog
Standing now, even uncertain of the future direction or the original foundation. Life’s rather tricky, while certainty only appears occasionally during the adventure. Some assurance stands up and helps us rest and breathe deeply, calmly, while thoughts ramble...
by Chris Maxwell | Jan 13, 2016 | Blog
The holding of a hand. The hearing of a story. The healing of a heart. The beginning of a new adventure toward no longer allowing past pain to control present and future possibilities. Holding the past, or being held by it, can offer a variety of competent excuses....
