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You are spirit first, and therefore, spiritual first and foremost. ~Chaplain Michele

Extraordinary lives are built by ordinary people creating extraordinary moments for others. ~Chaplain Michele

  Series Title:  The Principle of Abundance:  How It Really Works and Why It Might Not Be Working for You This Episode (Micro Podcast 1):  The Principle of Abundance:  Defining True Overflow What is true abundance?  Likely very different than what we usually believe.  Chaplain Michele opens this series with a deep exploration of what … Read more

Your Intuition is your spirit whispering to you.  Are you quiet enough to hear it? ~Chaplain Michele

Nothing works well or at all without love. ~Chaplain Michele  

“More is not always better, Linus.  Sometimes its just more.” ~Sabrina (as played by Julia Ormond) to Linus (as played by Harrison ford) in the 1995 remake of Sabrina.

Don’t let stress de-rail you. ~Chaplain Michele

Your highest and best purpose is to learn how to love unconditionally. ~Chaplain Michele

Leaning out can be just as important as leaning in. ~Chaplain Michele

Much of your world is shaped by the frequency (as in spirit) of your own words.  Think about that. ~Chaplain Michele

Your spirituality provides the construct for any work-life balance you have even more so than your reality. ~Chaplain Michele

You might have control over your choices, but you do not have control over circumstances or outcomes. ~Chaplain Michele

Series Title: The Principle of Abundance: How It Really Works and Why It Might Not Be Working for You (Intro) Stop merely surviving and start overcoming by discovering the counter-intuitive spiritual law that turns your perceived lack into a life of overflow. Are you constantly chasing fulfillment only to find yourself stuck in a loop … Read more

Stop spending your life studying other people’s live and telling their stories.  You have your own life to live and your own story to tell. ~Chaplain Michele

You have to be present to make decisions about the present. ~Chaplain Michele

Regardless of how much we talk about the past or the future, it’s still going to be today. ~Chaplain Michele

Here are 5 questions you must ask, at least once in your lifetime, about your purpose and destiny. Purpose and Destiny [ ] What is my purpose in this life? [ ] Is there a preordained path for me, or do I create my own destiny? [ ] How can I align my actions with … Read more

Blessing brings life.

The chain of humanity is rusting because of how we are dealing with the “weakest” links.

We are puzzle pieces to be fit together not fabric to be ripped apart.

We don’t control time. Time is current and is a current. Time is always moving. Time is always changing. Time is always shaping us.

Love is the greatest in life…and in work.

Self-Check:  Which Of These Best Describes You Right Now? Communicative or Shutdown? Balanced or Out-of-Sorts? Ready or Unprepared? Motivated or Stuck? Trusting or Skeptical?  

(00:02): Hi, it’s Chaplain Michele. Thank you for joining me for this segment of Transformed a podcast by Chaplain Michele. Release the practice of release. There’s something that I’ve learned to do over time. It’s taken a while and I confess I’m still not where I want to be, but I’ve made a lot of … Read more

TRANSCRIPT: (00:03): Hi, thank you for joining me for this segment of Transformed:  A Podcast by Chaplain Michele. On character. We don’t talk about character a lot anymore, at least not in the most edifying and encouraging ways. It seems that we know when someone has good character or bad character, and yet we still … Read more

Premarital Checklist for Moving from A “Me” Mindset to A “We” Mindset (Me-To-We) Identify critical areas of life: Marriage Family (in-laws, children, friends, etc),  Homemaking and housekeeping Finances Worship Work Health and Wellness (List anything that is part of your life or your lives to be.) List your current (individual) beliefs and practices.   (Each category … Read more

If we want to save the world. Love one another. Why? Because we are the world.

Psalm 24.1 + John 3.16 = Operative words: World and Whosoever.

Luke 10.27

John 13.34. That’s all.

“My country ’tis of thee, sweet land of liberty… (from America by Samuel Francis Smith). Still aspirational, but can we finally “manifest” this?

Romans 12.21

Life is both test of, and an opportunity to grow, our love, our joy, our peace, our patience, our kindness, our goodness, our humility and our self-control. If we want to pass the test of life, we must be willing to apply these attributes in real-time to how we think about one another. Spirit First.

While some might be waiting for war to break out, I (and others) am earnestly waiting for revival to break out. (Psa 85.6). Selah.

Perhaps we should consider leaning into the “love your neighbor” part of the Bible (Mar 12.30-31) rather than the “for the love of money” (1 Tim 6.10) part of the Bible. Selah.

From the rising of the sun unto the going down of the same the LORD’S name is to be praised. (Ps 113.3)

Unhinged? You know what needs to be unhinged? The unproduced, unmanufactured, unpretentious, unmanipulated, uncelebrity-centric songs of praise flowing from the hearts and mouths of God’s People…those who believe or want to believe in Jesus Christ as Savior of ALL humanity. Psalm 95.1

Is that the cry of REPENTANCE I hear reverberating in throughout the heavens? Thought I heard something. Just checking.

Your legacy is not about what you do for selfish gain. Your legacy is what you do selflessly without expectation of gain.

We are where we are because somewhere along the way we decided that our arguments against one another are greater than our prayers for one another. God is watching. Selah.

Want world peace? Start by making your personal peace a priority.

“God desires our trust more than our ‘correct’ beliefs.” ~Peter Enns

Being at the “bottom of the food chain” should never mean that there are fellow humans who are without food, clothing or shelter.

“Happiness is not found in things you possess, but in what you have the courage to release.” ~Nathaniel Hawthorne

“Love works miracles in stillness.” ~Herbert Read

Happy New Year! Believing with you for an abundance of manifested blessings and breakthoughs.

#DearChristians:  Which of the 7 churches are you attending today? Selah.

If you want to be blessed, be a blessing. #ThePowerofBlessing

Some of you are not walking in blessing because you’ve not learned the spiritual principle that blessing begets blessing. When you respect others and sincerely desire that they are blessed, regardless of how you feel about them, you will find your life also blessed.