Go where you are celebrated and not tolerated was one of the very first leadership principles I learned in the early 90s just starting out in ministry. Have you ever heard that phrase? Probably have and if so, are you following it? To be honest, this phrase never struck a real emotional chord with me […]

Did you know that if you are born again, you DO have joy? Galatians 5 tells us the list of the fruit of the spirit. Notice there it says the “Fruit of the spirit is love…” Then it goes on to list the others. All the other fruit come out of love. I once studied […]

We hear so many happy phrases throughout this season…Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, Joy to the world, Have yourself a merry little Christmas.    We all dream of chestnuts roasting on an open fire, sleigh rides in the snow, kisses under the mistletoe, Christmas movies, lots of great food and laughs with family, and 50% off. […]

  “Therefore, my beloved brethren, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.” ‭‭I Corinthians‬ ‭15:58‬ ‭NKJV‬‬ In other words, DON’T GIVE UP! DON’T QUIT.  We have a policy at our house and it is this: Cooley’s aren’t quitters! There is […]

“You know that moment when you are so scared, you laugh?”  said someone to me recently.    Honestly, I wasn’t sure I did. But then after thinking about it, I think what she was saying was that sometimes emotions get so high, you’re not sure if you should scream, laugh, or cry.     She […]

~Happy Expectations~ What do you find yourself doing more? Being hopeful of happy expectations or dreading things going wrong?     Fear keeps us from hoping. You’ve heard people say it. “Don’t get your hopes up! It’s probably too good to be true anyway.”    Well, that may be true for a doubter. But for […]

~Happy Environments~   God made nature so extravagantly. Have you ever wondered why?   When I was a little girl, we had a pond behind our house. There was a picturesque meadow on the other side of that pond that filled with beautiful flowering weeds each summer. There were those tiny purple flowering weeds, dandelions […]

Have you seen Juicy Juice’s latest commercial? This is their lil jingle – The happy comes straight from the fruit. That is so awesome!! As soon as I saw that while making a pic stitch and waiting for my Instagram Image to be ready to export to my photo album, I immediately thought of John […]

~Happy Camper~   We have all heard this term before – “Happy Camper”. The definition of happy camper is actually stated as “a contented, satisfied, or uncomplaining person”; or, “a happy person”.    When I hear those words, Happy Camper, it takes me back to my childhood in the 70’s and teen years in the […]

~Happy Talk~ Are you a happy talker? Check out these verses to sort of check up from the neck up. Jot down or copy and paste the ones you might need to focus on. What if these verses described the way we talk day in and day out? How much happier would we be? How […]