by Chris Manion | Aug 31, 2021 | Blog
If you are competitive like me, you may hear an inner dialogue when someone says they’ve done something admirable: I wonder if I could do that? or, I could do that better (a thought that started my 26-year-career in direct sales). Even though competition...
by Chris Manion | Aug 30, 2017 | Blog, Writing
God answers prayers. I heard this all my life and was pretty sure people who told me this might be slightly mistaken. It seemed to me that I didn’t get any answers when I prayed. Sure, every once in a while, I’d pay attention to the fact that I did get...
by Chris Manion | May 17, 2017 | Blog
We all know tears, but the gift of tears? What’s that? I’m off to tell more stories from my book at the Coastal Library in Santa Rosa Beach, FL today including the little-known spiritual gift of tears. Crossing my fingers for an audience, however small....
by Chris Manion | Apr 2, 2017 | Writing
“I’d known for a long time that the ache in my soul was for God and God alone. Nothing else would assuage it. I felt like James Earl Jones in the movie Field of Dreams as he responded to the invitation to follow the baseball players into the cornfield. He walked...
by Chris Manion | Aug 7, 2016 | Blog, SEO ready posts, Writing
Trees are holy, as all living things are holy. God made us all holy. Why don’t we ponder this more often? Does it hit too close to home? Is it too hard for us to fathom because of all the hatred and violence pelting us from media images we choose to watch,...
