Have a focused week!

Dear Friends-
I hope this email finds everyone well (even with one hour less sleep). Today's Word is a short simple message that I hope will inspire.

Spring is approaching and the theme of the season is new life. Spend this week focused on breathing "new life" into your future. Take some time to focus on new goals for your personal, professional and spiritual life. Don't just think of an idea- create a plan that includes a start date and a schedule for accomplishing small steps. Whether it's losing weight or going back to school, or even reading the Bible everyday, don't just talk about it- make concrete plans. Stop watching everyone else live and design a life of your own.

This is a period of opportunity. Don't let it pass you by.
As you move forward into the workweek, please reflect on the following verses and stay focused on the "bigger picture".

Onward and upward in 2009!
Stay blessed,
K.

A Lesson from the Ant
6 -11 You lazy fool, look at an ant. Watch it closely; let it teach you a thing or two. Nobody has to tell it what to do. All summer it stores up food; at harvest it stockpiles provisions. So how long are you going to laze around doing nothing? How long before you get out of bed? A nap here, a nap there, a day off here, a day off there, sit back, take it easy—do you know what comes next? Just this: You can look forward to a dirt-poor life, poverty your permanent houseguest!

Always Cooking Up Something Nasty
12 -15 Riffraff and rascals talk out of both sides of their mouths. They wink at each other, they shuffle their feet, they cross their fingers behind their backs. Their perverse minds are always cooking up something nasty, always stirring up trouble. Catastrophe is just around the corner for them, a total smashup, their lives ruined beyond repair.

Seven Things God Hates
16 -19 Here are six things God hates, and one more that he loathes with a passion: eyes that are arrogant, a tongue that lies, hands that murder the innocent, a heart that hatches evil plots, feet that race down a wicked track, a mouth that lies under oath, a troublemaker in the family.