I experience anxiety for reasons I no longer understand, but I've found that I can beat myself into anxiety whenever I am not that loud, emphatic, talkative person I often associate with enthusiasm and passion in my head. I'm very quiet and laid back. And experience has taken me down a course that makes me calmer, more observant, slower to speak, more even tempered and in the moments when i catch myself and remember the idea I have of enthusiasm in my head, I can begin to try and force that reaction...

Well, guys and gals, I'm back on Case's Column, and I want to bring something I haven't yet done in this particular venue. Every now and then, when the time is right, I want to bring you a recipe for some things I've cooked up in my kitchen. Since this is the time of year that people fire up their grills (or barbecue enthusiasts get their smokers in full throttle), I thought this would be a good time to share some of my kitchen prowess with the entire world.

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Today is just like any other day. Just an average day, and the weather is great. I have sat here with my sweetie looking at my sons senior pictures and I can't believe he has just become a man right before my eyes....

I feel the love from my sweetie so strongly. We have come across a few bumps but I feel like they have made us even stronger.

Today is just one of those days when I really miss my parents. I would love to have had them see the wonderful young adults...

Affirmation: The Holy Spirit indwells me, and I have God's Word. I use it to frame my world.

The "sound" of your Godly calling (destiny) should be nothing less than the driving force behind how you live your entire life. - Dennis Cramer
Do you desire that Christ should dwell in your heart by faith? - Smith Wigglesworth

"Behold, I stand at the door and knock; if any on hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he...

I feel like I am being called to completely forget my 'self'. By this I mean I want to forget all of the physical, circumstances, thoughts, attitudes, ego ambitions, character traits and ideas that make up my 'self' and just be my Self, with a capital 'S'.

I feel like life, God, is calling for me to forget myself in this way, to forget my problems, desires, and perception and to simply flow with the tide and allow Him to take over and I'm ready to admit now that much of this is...