During the 4th quarter of 2011, Cherise and I found ourselves going back to the dark places in our hearts. This is not a misstep in our pursuit of the transformed life, nor did we undergo any type of spiritual crisis.  What happened is that our faith was tried and tested with many painful trials, [...]

Almost feels like this is a baseball home run record we’re chasing.  Hitting the 700 mark and moving further onward feels like Cherise and I are amongst baseball legendary status of some sort, except that the hierarchy of Active Rain is years ahead of where we are; some have even eclipsed the “MM” milestone. Nonetheless, [...]

Paula Hamilton just tagged Cherise and me in a “better-get-to-know-you” game on Active Rain. So we will become willing participants to share some tidbits about ourselves to the Active Rain (Real Estate Blogging Members) community, as well as to our former and new prospective clientele. Here are the questions posed before us: What is YOUR [...]

Eclipsing 300,000 points on Active Rain means what? Do Cherise and I remember the details of our 592 posts so far?  No, not really.  In fact, I highly doubt that we can recall what we had for dinner two nights ago or what we actually did on last Saturday afternoon.  It seems like the details [...]

Jack Canfield, the founder of Success Principles, purports, “Count your blessings each day is essential for explosive growth.” And frankly, I completely agree.  Reading Paula Hamilton’s Sunday Blessing blogs got me to thinking about this topic. From our community of Active Rain bloggers who appear successful in their own niches, this attitude of thanksgiving is [...]