Koinonia House

06/15/2026

Day 15 – Honesty
Frankl
"The truth is told by deeds."
Peterson
"Tell the truth—or, at least, don't lie."
Journal Prompt: Where in your life do your actions and words need greater alignment?

In relation to words and actions…I am and work hard to do a consistent job of aligning words With actions in most areas of life. Right now, the one area that I'm focused on is health consistency again. I am a healthy individual and as I take assessment of those choices can see where at times the words and actions were not aligning.
The toughest part of that is not in the kknowing. I know how and what to do..it has been cheap dopamine. We all get use to the feeling. But I've made a concious choice to focus on this. Being aligned with words and actions in this area. I fully believe if you can self control what you eat and choose to fuel your body with. You can self control every other sector of your life.
Pushing forward in all things.
Today is the day as a choice and also as the greatest example of living in the present. There is no other timeline but today. These hours , minutes and seconds are what we have to live our lives with.
Be grateful for breath and life today.
151K other people didn't wake up today and they went to bed same as you…thinking tomorrow would come. It didn't arrive.
Momento Mori. Amor Fati.

06/10/2026

The quote burn the ships is most likely even more ancient than Cortes whom it is often attributed to. The metaphor it provides though has stood the test of time. If you want to take action and move forward…you must burn the ships and way of turning back.

We on a whole as a species like comfort, the brain craves comfort more than growth which is why most struggle when challenges arise to move forward. Though growth happens on this side our brain and the reactivity will just follow the script unless we interrupt it. We do have that power. I believe the greatest gift GOD has given is the power to choose one thought above another.

I believe that we are far more loved and powerful than we've ever believed. That True North has always been signaling and when we quiet our minds and the noise we hear more clearly and see much farther. It is in those moments ✨️ we find our path and the trail we must blaze on it.

The entire world loves to divide itself. It has since the beginning on time, but the truth is…we don't have to live like that. We can rise above the noise, the division , and free ourselves from a herd mentality that only serves those who profit from it.

Robert Frost talked about the road less traveled. This road diverged in the woods and the road less traveled he took and it made all the difference. It can make the difference still today if we are willing to acknowledge each person's humanity first and foremost. To be kind in a world constantly trying to prove their point of view is right and to be love led vs fear fed.

When we do follow this ancient path. We find a quiet confidence within. We find a power that was always there. We awaken to a North Star always shining, and dreams we've always had. We hear the birds sing, nature shines just a but brighter in every way, and we find that what we needed most was never without or external to us…it's been inside the whole time. ♥️

Find 3 people today and encourage them with a small compliment. The impact reaches people.

A story to show how little it can be to be an encourager. Yesterday while waiting in line to pay for my items at a convenience store the person in front of me kept complaining about the pump card reader not working The lady behind the counter said they had a ticket in for it. And then he kept complaining. She looked off and back to him. Face tightened. (It's amazing what you can observe when you aren't constantly occupied with yourself) Finally he left, and she said is this it for you today. Another worker came and she said did you hear that guy complaining about the pump reader.

As I left simply said “just gotta get your magic wand out and fix it” her smile was genuine and she laughed and said yes. Right ?

In that moment ..in the simplest way…she was seen, she was heard, and she was understood.

People are dying for lack of an encouraging word. It takes so little to be kind and loving so as you go about your ordinary life…look for these opportunities ✨️ they make all the difference in ways you may never fully realize.

06/09/2026

Cultivate an Attitude of Gratitude Daily. It honestly will help order your day.

Our words are life giving or life draining...as Brennan Manning says..there is no neutral exchange.

Complaints against the way things are, will never change things. Choose to be a voice of Kindness and Love in a world filled to the brim with hate and despair.

What's 1 thing you are grateful for today ?👇

06/03/2026

If you were to ask 1000 people the question what is more important…. What you know or how you feel more important?

Almost all would respond “how I feel is more important” The dilemma it seems is that as universally true as this is, where our wisdom truly lives we act and live out as though the cognitive level is more important.

Learning to deal with matters of the heart, dare, I say, are the most critical skills a person can learn. If we learned to live from a heart based posture--where our true wisdom lives versus our thinking minds--there would be less problems in marriage, social problems such as drinking and drugs would be less tempting and kindness would be far more common place.

So what's missing to access this beautiful place of wisdom within? 🤔

Intention. A simple and yet profound quieting of the thinking mind. Seeing storming thoughts as a rock machine that has a huge funnel at the top and if you have too many coming in at once they will get clogged. Learning to back off the thought process is the clearest way to access this intention and wisdom within.

Once practiced over and over the strength grow just like any other muscle. You become stronger in using your inner wisdom, refusing to be pulled from the divide and division the world so easily serves up.

Life is beautiful is this place. Will you embrace the journey?

06/01/2026

This month two very loud voices at least in the states will shout at each other. It’s become a common battle-ground month for most. It’s almost unavoidable unless you choose the Narrow Enlightened Path. That’s the invitation I want to extend to everyone this month, heck—all months. Climb and Walk with me, up a path in the middle of two divisional points.

The world is almost always dividing us into ‘us and them’ in every single way. Division sells, products are made for both sides to purchase, rallies are held for both sides to protest and come to, money is made by those who support one side or the other.

The path least traveled offers a place of Truth, Love, Mercy, Grace, and Goodness that neither side often understands. It is no respecter of persons, it offers to all the peace found within the climb and walk for those who take its route.

May you choose to walk this enlightened path—this month and all months, and not be drawn into the either -or- paradigm. OR the ‘us vs them’ paradigm.

There’s only one race in the world — the Human Race and we are all more alike than we are different.

Come walk and climb with me.

05/31/2026

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05/27/2026

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05/25/2026

Finding Your True North is about discovering who you are when you knock the clay of the world off. It's about remembering you are the canvas and the brush and painter of your life. The hues are set by the lens you wear. You can see beauty or darkness and sometimes you will find that life will show you both. What you fix your eyes on determines the action you take based on the meaning you give something.
I consistently choose to see the good and the light. Not because all things that happen are good, but because I've determined life is not tragedy. It is not comedy and epic adventure. It is a constant feeding of the wolf within. 2 exists ..which shall you feed. Faith or fear. Which you feed ...grows.

05/21/2026

Speaking Truth in Love — Courage Without Cruelty
There are two ways to destroy a person with words.
The first is obvious: cruelty. Direct attack. Dismissal. The kind of speech that tears down rather than builds up, that aims to wound rather than heal.
The second is less discussed: false kindness. Telling someone what they want to hear rather than what they need to hear. Allowing a lie to continue because confronting it would be uncomfortable. Smiling and nodding while a person walks toward something that will hurt them, because you did not want to be the bearer of difficult news.
Love without truth is cruel. Truth without love is equally cruel. The fusion of the two is the only way that speech heals rather than harms.
Jesus modeled this with precision that we rarely acknowledge. He was gentle with the woman at the well — not condemning, genuinely curious about her life. He was blunt with the rich young ruler — naming directly the thing that stood between that young man and freedom. He was fiercest with the religious professionals who had made the house of God into a marketplace and burdened ordinary people with impossible requirements. He did not use the same approach with everyone because everyone was not in the same place.
Truth spoken in love must see the person first. It must care about where they are going more than about being right. It must be aimed at their flourishing rather than at the speaker's satisfaction of having said the difficult thing.
The tongue that brings healing is the tongue that has learned to hold these two things together simultaneously — honesty that does not abandon compassion, compassion that does not abandon honesty. This is the hardest balance in human communication, and it is the most important.

05/18/2026

Most of us spend years of our life sitting at stoplights.
More years sitting at work.
And nearly a third of our existence asleep.

Then somewhere in between the routines, the schedules, the bills, the obligations, and the scrolling… life quietly slips by unnoticed.

The deeper question isn’t just how you spend your time.
It’s who decided where your time goes.

Are you building a life that reflects who you truly are?
Or are you managing a system someone else handed you?

A lot of people are surviving patterns they never consciously chose.
Wake up. Work. Consume. Repeat.
Existing inside routines without ever stopping long enough to ask if the direction still aligns with their soul.

You were made for more than maintenance mode.

There’s a difference between living intentionally and simply reacting to whatever the day throws at you. One creates. The other manages.

So ask yourself honestly:

Whose life are you living?
The one you consciously create?
Or the one you’ve been conditioned to manage?

Every stoplight gives you a moment to think about it.