A great tragedy of our day is that we have no framework with which to process bad things. We do not process difficult things.
We ignore and soothe them.
Because we can’t process it, we become cynical and jaded. No longer is life a series of seasons where some are good and some are bad, now life is out to get me.
This is perhaps, the worst possible way to live.
It makes us reactive.
We must choose how we want to live and expect that difficulties will come in our pursuit of that goal.
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Love should not be relegated to mere theology, with all of its pomp and religious bravado. Love is a way of living – a style of transaction amongst souls hungry for something beyond the day to day. Love is a reckless kindness that shocks the heart back to life. Love is both costly and free….
Two golden rules of teaching:"If you have not read a book, always make it clear to the students you have not done so; and (tangentially related) if you do not know the answer to a question, admit you do not know the answer. The desire of the teacher to appear omniscient must be resisted at…
The real challenge of wholehearted parenting is to be the adults that we want our children to grow up to be. (21) ~Bené Brown
“Times covetousness is forever. Time devours and devours—and gives back nothing. How terrible to face death without ever having claimed freedom, even in all its danger!” ~Frederick Nietzsche, in Irvin Yalom’s When Nietzsche Wept as quoted by Dan Allender in To Be Told Workbook.
We all have battles to fight.
Simply having a thought doesn't make it true. Too often we allow our thought processes to control our feelings without evaluating the truth of our thoughts. We do not have to be slaves to our thought processes. We can look at each thought and decide it's merit. When we decide they do not have merit…
