How Do We Find Hope When Our Life Doesn’t Go According to Our Plan?

Beth VogtBeth K. Vogt, challenges, change, COVID-19, dreams, expectations, Faith, hope, Life, perseverance, perspective, Quotes 8 Comments

Has your life ever not gone according to your plans? Some of you are thinking, “Really, Beth? You’re asking me that?” Life rarely goes according to our plans. We all experienced the upheaval of the COVID pandemic in 2020, and we’re still affected by it just over a year later. The life we plan for ourselves gets derailed by all …

In Others’ Words: Do It Right or Do It Over

Beth Vogtgoals, In Others' Words, Quotes 10 Comments

  Sometimes a person says something and there’s just no arguing with them.  I mean, former UCLA basketball coach John Wooden says it straight up, doesn’t he? If we don’t have time to do something right, do we really think we’re going to find extra time for a do-over? Do it once. Do it right. And be done with it.  I understand there …

In Others’ Words: You Are Here

Beth VogtIn Others' Words, Life, quote about choices, quote about life, quote about past and present, Uncategorized 13 Comments

Anybody else ever want a do-over?  Anybody else wish there was a rewind button on life, just so you could go back five, maybe ten, seconds and make a different choice?  (They worked that do-over concept into the movie Galaxy Quest, but the rewind button had a fancy name: Omega 13.) But I digress. Reality is, we rarely, if ever, …