What do you do when it looks like things are just never going to change? We just have to stick with it. It is extremely difficult to keep putting in the time when there seems to be no visual signs that things are getting better. When we are experiencing this, we should remember the seed that is put under the ground. Days and weeks go by and it looks as though nothing is happening. Then one day the evidence of the work going on behind the seen reveals itself.

Rhon Johnson

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Scripture Reference:

Mark 4:26-27

And he said, So the kingdom of God is as if a man should cast seed into the ground; And should sleep, and rise night and day, and the seed should spring up and grow, he knows not how.

To say never when in actuality we do want something to happen is to allow our defense mechanism to control our mind torque that should be focusing its energy on it happening and what to do with it when does instead spending the energy on trying to protect our emotion. Let us say that it will happen and that we will be ready to receive it when it does.

Rhon Johnson

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Power Quote:

To say that it will never happen is to say that we are afraid to do the work and then deal with our emotion if it doesn’t happen for us. To say never is to cause to come to past the opposite of what we really want.

Rhon Johnson  (1966 –     ) 

What about today, someone asked me. Well, today is a good time to get it right. Often it takes many attempts to get any particular thing right. That is why it is important to get started today. No time to waste because today represents a moment in time of our life that we will never get back.

Rhon Johnson

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Power Quote:

What we do today is what we are spending our life on, even if what we did was nothing.

Rhon Johnson  (1966 –      )

When a difficult situation shows up in our lives out of the blue, be careful not to react. If the situation allows, we should step back for a moment and gather ourselves. We should allow our emotions to settle before we address the issue.

Rhon Johnson

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 Power Quote:

There is no thought like a clear thought. 

There is a lot of talk about life and what we should be doing with our lives. The truth is that it is different for all of us. As we take our journey to discover who and what we are, we must keep this in mind. “It is not living as such that is important, but living rightly.” That is a quote from the movie “Immortals.”

Rhon Johnson

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Power Thought:

Life is a gift given to us, we can live it how ever we chose.

Rhon Johnson  (1966 –     )

Nothing real deep today. I just want to encourage you today, so I’m going to get right to the point. HANG IN THERE!!! Do not throw in the towel. You are so close to your break through.

Rhon Johnson

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W hen you get into a tight place and everything goes against you til it seems as though you could not hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

Harriet Bescher  Stowe (1811 – 1896)

Have you ever been a part of a team. If so, what kind of teammate were you. That is the great thing about team sports, you have to learn to work well with others. All it takes is one self centered person on the team to cause us not to achieve our overall team goal. I played sports growing up and was privileged to take the experience all the way to the college level. I have seen one individual destroy the integrity of the entire mission for the team. It happens on the playing field, in the classroom, on the job , and even within the family unit. It will be easy for us to identify this person and spend a lot of time talking about them. But lets talk about the kind of teammate we need to be. It is really simple in words. We are to find out what our responsibilities are and then do it with excellence regardless of how we perceive the work ethic of another to be. Our focus will encourage others, which strengthens the integrity of the team and sets us up to achieve our goals. When I focus and do my job individually for the team, it will Teach Everyone Around Me.

Rhon Johnson

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TEAM

T-eaching

E-veryone

A-round 

M-e

Who wrote the book on parenting? It wasn’t me! I have one left in the nest out of three, and I still don’t know all the right moves. I like what Bill Cosby said, “if you only have one child, then you don’t count as a parent.” I know that is not true, but it sure is funny, and it stretches our parenting talents further than if we only had one child in the nest. I have learned a few things that I truly know is helpful. Firstly, spend time with them! The investment of our time is the most important thing we can do for them, because what they really want is us, our time and attention. Secondly, hold them responsible for their behavior! The worst thing we can do to our children is give them a false perception of life. Out in the world they will not be able to get away with inappropriate behavior. Therefore, if we allow them to get away with inappropriate behavior, that’s what they will think about everybody else. Also, I can’t stand to hear people say that they don’t discipline because they don’t want little Johnny mad at them, and that they love little Johnny and they want Little Johnny to love them back. The Bible clearly tells us that if we don’t discipline our children that we don’t love them. That is a mouth full, but it is true. Holding them responsible for there behavior is a must for the foundation of their life and the legacy of our families. There are many others points that I could share, but only three today. This last one, in my opinion is the most important. We need to apologize to them when our behavior has crossed the line. If we give our kids a false potriat of ourselves that reflects we’re perfect, then two things will happen. They will try to be perfect early on and fail, which will cuase them to live in bondage to a lie that says they are bad because they keep doing things wrongs. Then, down the line as they come into their teen years, they will figure out that you are a phony and resent you for imposing something upon them that they could never live up to. If we can just do these three thing, we can lay a foundton that other healthy principles can spring forth from in our relationship with them as parent.

Rhon Johnson

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Power Quotes:

– Discipline and love are not antithetical; one is a function of the other. –

– Children want their parents more than they want the junk we buy them. –

James C. Dobson  ( 1936 –        )

It is a new week and now we all have a great opportunity to accomplish something with our lives. Let us not take on the attitude that so many do about Monday. From now on lets refer to Monday as “Bright Monday”, because it represents how bright our futures are, if we take the right attitude. I told my wife this morning that it is going to be a great week for us. I said that because it is far better to have  excitement than dejection when nothing has happened yet. This is important because we usually draw things to us based on our overall attitude, bright or blue. So we should have an attitude that is bright about the start of the week, and we will find that things are just better when we do .

Rhon Johnson

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Power Quote:

We are all magnets and the things that are moving in our direction are relative to our out look on life.

Rhon Johnson ( 1966 –       )

Just want to say Happy Mother’s Day to all the mom out there, and be sure to acknowledge your mother. I understand that for some of us that things may not be good between the two of you, but make a good gesture anyway. Like I have said many times before, it’s not at all about us. This not to say that any of you should subject yourself to anything unhealthy, just saying to make a good gesture.

Rhon Johnson

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Power Quote:

One gesture, once a year, for one mom.

Rhon Johnson  ( 1966 –       )