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Quick! Fix me! “And let us not lose heart in doing good, for in due time we shall reap if we do not grow weary.” Galatians 6:9 NASB “The more we let God take us over, the more truly ourselves we become — because he made us. He invented all the different people that youContinue reading “I Quit!”

Denial is Demanding “And Peter remembered the word which Jesus had said, ‘Before a rooster crows, you will deny Me three times’ And he went out and wept bitterly.” Matthew 26:75 NIV “The attempt to escape from pain is what creates more pain.” ― Gabor Maté A wife was caring for her husband in theContinue reading “Denial is Demanding”

Feelings and Thoughts Always Go Together “What comes out of a person is what defiles them. For it is from within, out of a person’s heart, that evil thoughts come—sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, greed, malice, deceit, lewdness, envy, slander, arrogance and folly. All these evils come from inside and defile a person.” Mark 7:Continue reading “Feelings and Thoughts”

“If anyone thinks they are something when they are not, they deceive themselves. Each one should test their own actions. Then they can take pride in themselves alone, without comparing themselves to someone else.” Galatians 6:3-4 NIV “Talent is God-given; be humble. Fame is man-given; be grateful. Conceit is self-given; be careful.” John Wooden NewContinue reading “Goody-Goodies, Phonies, Snake Oil Salesmen and other Pretenders”

“Think about the things of heaven, not the things of earth.” Colossians 3:2 NLT “I think and think and think, I have thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.” – Jonathan Safran Foer If there’s anything I do more than anything, it’s overthinking. The belief that the more IContinue reading “Overthinking”

The Absence of an Empathetic Witness “Who will rise up for me against the wicked?    Who will take a stand for me against evildoers?Unless the Lord had given me help,    I would soon have dwelt in the silence of death.When I said, ‘My foot is slipping,’    your unfailing love, Lord, supported me.When anxiety was great within me,    your consolationContinue reading “Do You Need an Empathetic Witness?”

“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. Through him all things were made; without him, nothing was made that has been made. In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind.” John 1:1-4 NIVContinue reading “Books”