08/24/2026
Faith isn’t what you heard this morning. It’s what you choose tonight.
Your lion listened. Your lamb felt it. Now you decide how you live it.
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When I was a child, I remember being given a little card with the image of a lion laying down with a lamb. I didn’t understand the deeper meaning back then — I just thought it was a beautiful scene. To me, it looked like how life was supposed to be: peaceful, compassionate, respectful.
As I grew older, I realized that image wasn’t just about peace.
It was about maintaining our belief and holding faith in our ability to keep our own duality in balance — the kind that anchors your life, your purpose, your lessons.
Faith in the understanding that strength and gentleness aren’t opposites.
Faith in the understanding that both paradoxically exist in you at the same time.
Faith is as internal as your nervous system.
Because within each of us lies our own lion and our own lamb.
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The lion is your most fierce inner strength — the part of you that gets up every morning to try again, that stands firm, protects your lane, stands fearlessly for what you know is morally and integrally right, protects what and who you love, and knows your direction and purpose instinctively.
Bold, brave, and driven by love over fear.
The lion must learn to execute the lesson — to understand the difference between response and reaction, and to choose the one that creates the best outcome for the highest good.
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The lamb lesson is the growth and maturity of your heart space — your ability to internally hold space for compassion, for yourself as well as others.
It’s the part of you that stays grounded, connected, and guided by something deeper within you.
It’s also the part of you that refuses to let fear take over simply because you don’t yet understand something.
Compassion has no room for intolerance or for defining another person’s worth.
Gentle, steady, and rooted in purpose and faith rather than pressure.
It is the counterbalance to our ego.
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Real peace comes from letting those two parts sit together without fighting.
And that balance is where this hybrid market concept known as Prescott Valley Community Market came from — not from tradition, not from the “accepted,” not from the status quo, but from that higher place inside me that asked the question:
“What does this community need?”
How may I be of service for the higher good?
Then I sat in silence and waited for the answer.
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When your lion and lamb are aligned, you gain the kind of inner awareness that shows you there is no need to lower yourself to compete with anyone.
You simply build what you were meant to build — with strength, compassion, focus, the clarity to recognize and move past distractions that aren’t for the highest good, and the faith to live fully in your authentic purpose.
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Sunday is a great day for reflection. I often believe that’s why so many church services happen on Sundays — it gives people a moment to pause, breathe, and look inward.
Whatever you lived today, whatever you carried, whatever you learned…
always remember this:
Faith isn’t a moment.
It’s a practice.
And it starts inside you.
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When you study a piece of art, you notice the parts that speak to your own life.
Every person sees something different in a lion and a lamb.
I’d love to hear your perspective.
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