What 40 years has taught me:
1. Family and friends matter more than anything.
2. No matter how much you plan and pray, things are going to turn out the way they turn out. But plan and pray anyway.
3. People's situations are relative. But it's not your job to make it relative. It's your job to show love and compassion.
That about sums it up 40 years in a nutshell!
~Jen McCutcheon
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…
“Our greatest freedom is the freedom to choose our attitude.” (10) Viktor Frankl
Forgiveness is only effective when we walk in it. Both people have to walk in it. The person doing the forgiving must give up the hurt, anger and the need for revenge, while the person being forgiven must give up the desire to justify or live in the guilt. Forgiveness is both a one time…
Whether you prevail or fail, endure or die—whether you make it onto the Fortune 500 and whether you stay there—depends more on what you do to yourself than on what the world does to you. (37) ~Jim Collins From here.
Faith is problematic because it requires us to embrace the mess. In the rawness of faith, we must embrace the idea that there things we cannot see and hope means we may have to wait. Waiting is often hard and sometimes, painful. But faith and hope are worth it.
“Genuine forgiveness does not deny anger but faces it head-on.” (10) Alice Duer Miller
