When well-meaning people try to comfort you with the words, "You're right where God wants you," perhaps it's not that God wants you in the middle of the mind-altering heap of crud that you can see for miles in every direction; perhaps it's that you're in his heart, in his presence, in his understanding.
If we were to reduce ourselves to a square root, we'd probably all have one personality trait that supersedes the others and is the foundation of everything else that is unique about us. But with God, there is no one thing that you can boil him down to. Even Paul had difficulty, finally saying that [...]
You can ask God for anything you want; you can dream; you can hope; you can believe he has your best life in mind, but the bottom line is that his plans are better and his dreams go higher than yours. So when you next talk to God and you totally trust the depths of [...]
Of all the things that cripple people from being all they can be, expectation is the worst. Expectation is very different to hope, because it usually sets a standard to be attained that is nigh impossible to reach--one that says that you must the brightest, the best, the shiniest at that thing you want to [...]
