Aug 4, 2020 | Breakthrough, Life storms, Pain/Suffering, Spiritual Formation
We’ve been in a few prayer sessions, you probably have too, where someone breaks into a rant about something standing in the way of God’s plan. It’s usually a person, circumstance, or the evil one they’re sure is preventing our group from doing great things for God....
Jun 24, 2020 | Church/Religion, Imperfection, Leadership, Life storms, setbacks
Like you, every day we’re scrambling to navigate the strategic and economic circumstances brought about by the pandemic. Everywhere, including the church, people are stressed over how to gain back momentum or to just stay afloat. Depending on who you read or listen...
Apr 20, 2020 | Emotional Health/Healing, Life storms, Pain/Suffering
If there’s one word that encapsulates the times we’re living in now, it’s uncertainty. And there’s nothing like uncertainty to make us question who we are, what we’re supposed to be doing and pretty much the whole point of our existence. The two of us know a bit about...
Jun 18, 2019 | Breakthrough, Clarity, Emotional Health/Healing, Failure, Leadership, Life storms, Post Shows & More, Spiritual Formation
Wouldn’t you like to know how to make better sense of the confusing things of life, love, leadership, and the church? You can. There’s actually a blueprint! If you’re like us, so often what we think of life, God, and others, is based upon what our circumstances...
Oct 9, 2018 | Breakthrough, Emotional Health/Healing, Life storms, Pain/Suffering, Painful thoughts
As I write this we’re waiting on test results for two precious women in our family who are having health issues. The symptoms appear serious for both. Waiting to learn what’s going on is excruciating. And all the possibilities of what could be wrong have kept me...
Sep 24, 2018 | Emotional Health/Healing, Life storms, Pain/Suffering, Personal Development, Recovery, Spiritual Formation
In this podcast Episode, David & Caron Loveless discuss how to forgive life for what it hands us. The reason why we have to learn to forgive life for what it hands us is that so much of it is beyond our control. We have accidents, health issues, discouragement,...
Sep 11, 2018 | Breakthrough, Emotional Health/Healing, Failure, Life storms, Pain/Suffering, Spiritual Formation
“Forgiveness is the name of love practiced among people who love poorly. The hard truth is all people love poorly. We need to forgive and be forgiven every day, every hour, increasingly. That is the great work of love among the fellowship of the weak that is the human...
Apr 16, 2018 | Breakthrough, Emotional Health/Healing, Imperfection, Life storms, Marriage/Family, Relationships, Spiritual Formation, Stress
Last year we threw a big bash for my dad’s 90th birthday. As you can imagine there was a lot of excitement and anticipation. But just before the three-day event started, I tripped over something on our back porch and tore a calf muscle. All I could think was “Noooooo!...
Apr 11, 2018 | Breakthrough, Devotional, Emotional Health/Healing, Imperfection, Life storms, Pain/Suffering, Post Shows & More, Spiritual Formation
In this podcast Episode, David & Caron Loveless discuss how to live in freedom and joy, even when life doesn’t go your way. Jesus continues to teach us much about how to live each day with a YES toward life, instead of a NO. Listen to the Audio Here is a brief...
Mar 19, 2018 | Emotional Health/Healing, Imperfection, Life storms, Pain/Suffering, Painful thoughts, Spiritual Formation
“No good can come from watering last years crops.” Francis Anfuso We do it all the time. We tend phantom crops in the non-existent fields of our past. That awful moment, that loss, that person who slighted us or rejected us or abandoned us- we can’t get it out of our...
Oct 17, 2017 | Breakthrough, Emotional Health/Healing, Imperfection, Life storms, Pain/Suffering, Personal Development, Post Shows & More, Relationships, Spiritual Formation
In this podcast Episode, David & Caron Loveless discuss how to grow receptive when you feel most resistant, to what is happening to you, to others, or in your circumstances. Someone has said, “What we resist persists.” Resistance is a pretty good sign...
Jul 18, 2017 | Breakthrough, Emotional Health/Healing, Holiday stress, Imperfection, Life storms, Pain/Suffering, Personal Development, Recovery, Relationships
“In the madness, you have to stay calm.” Lupita Nyong’o Life has a way of amping our stress and stealing our peace. Here are a few of the ways we reclaim calm and work from our rest. 1) Tame the inner critic A good portion of our stress comes...
Apr 4, 2017 | Clarity, Imperfection, Life storms, Pain/Suffering, Post Shows & More, Spiritual Formation, Wisdom
Every happy sailor knows “how to take what the wind hands you” and say YES to it. If you don’t, you suffer because of it. Over the years, I’ve gotten to do a lot of sailing on the ocean, often for days at a time. More often than not, during...
Mar 22, 2017 | Breakthrough, Emotional Health/Healing, Imperfection, Life storms, Personal Development, Spiritual Formation
In our story, David and I both had seasons when we refused to accept circumstances that were beyond our control. The result of our inability to surrender to “necessary suffering” brought even greater suffering at a level we never thought possible. Our...
Feb 15, 2017 | Breakthrough, Clarity, Emotional Health/Healing, Imperfection, Life storms, Pain/Suffering, Personal Development, Post Shows & More
David Loveless & Caron Loveless share today a very simple pattern that can help YOU immediately pinpoint where you are on your spiritual path. It can also help you understand what’s up in from of your life journey. This pattern can also help YOU find...
Feb 14, 2017 | Breakthrough, Clarity, Emotional Health/Healing, Life storms, Personal Development, Recovery, Relationships, Spiritual Formation
The fullness of life comes through many small deaths. Richard Rohr For much of my life, I had this unspoken belief that the older you get the easier your life will be. I walked around thinking the hard times like grad school, hands-on parenting, keeping the family and...
Dec 8, 2016 | Emotional Health/Healing, Life storms, Loss, Pain/Suffering, Personal Development, Spiritual Formation
The loss of someone close brings us so many wake up calls. This week marks the second year without my sister, Leslie Chandler Robinson. Her passing has left an unthinkable void in my life and, along with this new reality, has come a number of valuable realignments in...
Oct 4, 2016 | Clarity, Emotional Health/Healing, Imperfection, Life storms, Pain/Suffering, Personal Development, Relationships, Spiritual Formation
In this podcast episode, David & Caron Loveless discuss how to respond to the question: “How are you doing?” We believe that a part of spiritual and emotional health begins when we’re able to name which cycle of life we are in… and that the categories of winning...
Aug 17, 2016 | Breakthrough, Clarity, Emotional Health/Healing, Imperfection, Life storms, Pain/Suffering, Painful thoughts, Personal Development, Post Shows & More, Spiritual Formation
In this new podcast episode, David & Caron Loveless discuss how seeing resistance in life, is your pathway to growth. Right at the point of our most resistance, to what life seems to be bringing us, is a beautiful place to see God. It is there God is inviting us...
Jun 15, 2016 | Breakthrough, Clarity, Emotional Health/Healing, Life storms, Loss, Personal Development, Spiritual Formation
Once again we’re all asking what in the world can be done about the atrocity of terrorism? And now I’m asking myself what can I, an average, middle- aged, American woman possibly do about the horrendous murder of innocent people that suddenly put my...
Apr 19, 2016 | Breakthrough, Emotional Health/Healing, Life storms, Loss, Pain/Suffering, Personal Development, Recovery, Spiritual Formation
Not long ago, I was asked to speak at a church and just before I brought the message the worship team led us in a song that featured a violin. Later, I learned that violin was being played by a girl named Mariana, who was one of the top young violinists in Romania. As...
Apr 6, 2016 | Breakthrough, Emotional Health/Healing, Imperfection, Life storms, Pain/Suffering, Relationships, Spiritual Formation
Over the course of my life, things have happened to me, people have done things to me that have frightened me, angered me and broken my heart. I had legitimate hurt worthy of comfort and understanding. Replaying the tapes of the wrongs that were done became my...
Mar 30, 2016 | Breakthrough, Church/Religion, Devotional, Failure, Leadership, Life storms, Loss, Pain/Suffering, Personal Development, Post Shows & More, Spiritual Formation
In this podcast Episode, David Loveless talks about how good news is birthed in harsh places. Listen to the Audio Here is a brief summary of today’s episode of “The Live True Podcast.” You can use this as a reference or reminder of key things you feel like you need...
Mar 23, 2016 | Breakthrough, Clarity, Devotional, Easter, Emotional Health/Healing, Failure, Good Friday, Life storms, Loss, Pain/Suffering, Personal Development, Post Shows & More, Recovery, Spiritual Formation
In this podcast Episode, David & Caron Loveless discuss how to live through and actually cooperate with both little and big deaths or losses throughout our lives, so something even larger and more fulfilling can emerge from it all… and how the resurrection shows...
Mar 22, 2016 | Breakthrough, Clarity, Easter, Emotional Health/Healing, Imperfection, Life storms, Pain/Suffering, Personal Development, Spiritual Formation
There is always one question that most compels and convicts me whenever I read about the resurrection of Jesus, and it’s this: “Why do you look for the living among the dead?” The scripture says two men that “gleamed like lightning”...
Mar 16, 2016 | Easter, Good Friday, Imperfection, Life storms, Pain/Suffering, Quotes, Spiritual Formation
If you are in any way familiar with the suffering, death and resurrection of Jesus, like we are, you know how easy it can be to walk through this Holy season on spiritual auto-pilot. As someone we know has said, ” What else can we possibly say about the most...
Mar 9, 2016 | Assets, Clarity, Emotional Health/Healing, Life Plan, Life storms, Pain/Suffering, Personal Development, Post Shows & More, Spiritual Formation
In this podcast Episode, David Loveless interviews Dave Rhodes about how to discover the unique purpose that God has wired into your story. We’re are going to talk about how God intersects our: Name; Narrative; and Nine to five lives to show the world around us the...
Feb 22, 2016 | Breakthrough, Clarity, Emotional Health/Healing, Failure, Inspiration, Leadership, Life storms, Loss, Marriage/Family, Pain/Suffering, Personal Development, Recovery, Relationships
What I’m about to share with you is deeply personal. This is the first time I’ve shared it publicly. And I’m a little anxious because once it’s out there, it’s out there. But I’m motivated. I believe what could come from it is...
Jan 4, 2016 | Breakthrough, Emotional Health/Healing, Inspiration, Leadership, Life storms, Pain/Suffering, Personal Development, Relationships, Spiritual Formation, Wisdom
So, how did we do? WordPress.com just sent us their “annual report” for youlivetrue.com and here are some of the cool things they told us about your preferences in 2015: * The Live True blog was viewed about 17,000 times. The Sydney Opera House...
Dec 28, 2015 | Assets, Breakthrough, Clarity, Emotional Health/Healing, Life storms, Personal Development, Post Shows & More, Spiritual Formation
Learn how to use 9 simple questions to review the end of the year, or even your life. In this podcast Episode, David Loveless talks about the most important hour you can spend this month, and why he has done it every year, for more than 3 decades. To listen to the...
Dec 7, 2015 | Assets, Breakthrough, Clarity, Emotional Health/Healing, Failure, Inspiration, Intimacy, Leadership, Life storms, Loss, Marriage/Family, Pain/Suffering, Personal Development, Recovery, Spiritual Formation, Stress
The following is an excerpt from our new ebook that is available beginning today. This book is a a very candid, behind the scenes look, at the journey of transformation that we’ve been on the last several years, and the things we’ve learned that can help...
Nov 9, 2015 | Breakthrough, Emotional Health/Healing, Failure, Life storms, Loss, Pain/Suffering, Personal Development, Spiritual Formation
I am always surprised when I meet a truly humble person – first, because it is such a rare event. But, what I’ve noticed just getting around them is I feel instantly drawn in. Maybe, this is because, for a few minutes, at least, their calming presence...
Oct 21, 2015 | Breakthrough, Clarity, Emotional Health/Healing, Life storms, Pain/Suffering, Personal Development, Post Shows & More, Spiritual Formation, Stress
To listen to today’s podcast, simply click on the “play” button on the podcast player above OR if you’ve already subscribed to “The Live True Podcast” then the episode can be accessed through either your Apple or Android device, in your podcast app. Here is a brief...
Aug 20, 2015 | Breakthrough, Emotional Health/Healing, Failure, Life storms, Loss, Marriage/Family, Pain/Suffering, Recovery
If you don’t mind my getting a little personal… or even if you do mind, I’m going to anyway. Let me get personal about me and my story… and then I want to get personal about you and your story. I’ve got something extraordinary to celebrate. Caron and I are...
Jul 22, 2015 | Breakthrough, Clarity, Emotional Health/Healing, Failure, Inspiration, Leadership, Life storms, Loss, Pain/Suffering, Personal Development, Relationships, Spiritual Formation
True confession: I’m a quote hoarder. I underline, dog-ear, highlight, copy and paste other people’s wisdom several times a day. I keep 3×5 cards in my purse and scribble quotes in the dark at the movies. I say, “Ooooh that’s a good one.” A lot. And I’ve...
Jul 2, 2015 | Breakthrough, Emotional Health/Healing, Failure, Life storms, Pain/Suffering, Personal Development, Spiritual Formation
Several years ago, I was honored to share the platform at a “Better Man” event with Kennan Burch. It was there I first heard his captivating story and a powerful metaphor that has encouraged me so many times over the last few years. Kennan has since become a...
Jun 16, 2015 | Breakthrough, Clarity, Emotional Health/Healing, Failure, Leadership, Life storms, Loss, Pain/Suffering, Recovery, Relationships, Spiritual Formation
I’ve spent some time in the desert. One August friends loaned us their home in Palm Desert. Daily temperatures were around 114 degrees. When I went looking for a tennis partner I was told no one played past 11:00am. Just breathing was a chore in that kind of...
Jun 4, 2015 | Breakthrough, Emotional Health/Healing, Life storms, Loss, Pain/Suffering, Recovery, Spiritual Formation
Over the course of my life things have happened to me, people have done things to me that have frightened me, angered me and broken my heart. I had legitimate hurt worthy of comfort and understanding. Replaying the tapes of the wrongs that were done became my...
Jun 2, 2015 | Assets, Breakthrough, Clarity, Leadership, Life storms, Relationships, Spiritual Formation
Here are three questions I’ve asked myself a lot, over the years. See if you relate: Do I have ‘enough’ to successfully live the life I think is possible? Do I have ‘enough’ to successfully love, the most significant people in my life? Do I have ‘enough’...
May 13, 2015 | Breakthrough, Clarity, Emotional Health/Healing, Life storms, Loss, Marriage/Family, Pain/Suffering, Parenting, Recovery, Relationships
In the early days of processing my husband’s betrayal I rejected his vehement declarations that went something like this: “Even though I did this, you need to believe me, I never, ever stopped loving you.” Yeah, right. There was no way I was buying...
Apr 30, 2015 | Breakthrough, Clarity, Life storms, Pain/Suffering, Personal Development, Relationships, Stress
I’m coming to see that a great deal of my stress is not caused by circumstances beyond my control – but by my own need to control my circumstances. I could give you a ton of examples of this ( and so could those brave, intrepid souls who have worked and...
Apr 16, 2015 | Emotional Health/Healing, Life storms, Loss, Pain/Suffering, Recovery, Spiritual Formation, Uncategorized
In the early months of the worst crisis of my life, God went AWOL. Seriously. I was in shambles and God was a no show. Thanks, I told God, for feeling the freedom to high tail it out of here leaving me to fend for myself in this snake infested quicksand of...
Apr 3, 2015 | Devotional, Easter, Good Friday, Life storms, Pain/Suffering, Personal Development, Recovery, Spiritual Formation
Here’s a very personal video message from us for Easter weekend. We hope you’ll use it as some part of your own private reflections. May you receive a significant breakthrough as you acknowledge The One Who Shows Us The Way in everything. Click this...
Dec 17, 2014 | Life storms, Loss
Last week, we held a memorial service for my sister-in-law, Leslie Chandler Robinson. It was hard. It was hard on multiple fronts. The first, most gut wrenching one was the fact that her transfer from here to heaven, feels like a tragic loss to those of us left...
