When I moved to Arkansas, my number one priority after getting my house in a livable state was connecting with people. I didn’t know anyone in the area, so I needed to find my people fast. One of the first groups I joined was the Fayetteville chapter of Business and […]
Catherine Gates
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Have you ever gotten caught up in a project or a job or a new chapter of life that felt like an unexpected wave hit you just when you thought all was calm? That’s exactly what happened to me when I got the idea to write the book The Confidence Cornerstone: A Woman’s Guide to Fearless Leadership.
“Now to him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, according to the power at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, forever and ever. Amen.” – Ephesians 3:20-21 Never! In 2005 […]
If you’ve attended church, you’ve probably heard these words many times. I know I had, but I didn’t get it … until several years ago. For most of my life, the Bible was not something I thought about actually reading. It seemed complicated, intimidating and very difficult to make sense […]
If you’ve gotten on board with choosing One Word for the year as an alternative to the laundry list of resolutions, congratulations! I pray it’s a word that is already inspiring and challenging you. But a year is a long time to keep something in place. How will you keep […]
Happy New Year! Don’t you love the opportunity to start fresh? It’s a chance to put the past behind you and move forward with new goals, envision new levels of accomplishment and maybe eliminate some habits that have held you back.
Today, the sermon talked a lot about giving thanks. And I know that being thankful for what we have is incredibly powerful and important. It’s what God wants us to do. When I got home from church, I went to let our cat out of her room and discovered that, […]
I was listening to KLRC earlier this week and they asked the question, “What have you learned about gratitude this year?” I’ve known for some time that gratitude is an important part of not only joyful, but successful living. Thankfully, gratitude has been an important part of my life, but […]
This past weekend, I went from a faith-at-work forum where business leaders discussed how they live their faith at work and can leave a legacy (at times it felt like I was at church, which was an amazing thing), to a funeral where I had the opportunity to hear about […]
There has been a great deal of energy, attention, time, discussion and effort put into fighting for competing beliefs recently. Beliefs about whether or not marriage should be allowed between two people of the same sex, and whether or not a woman has the right to have an abortion versus […]