Sometimes Christians you've laughed and cried with do horrible things, making choices that end up serving only themselves and no one else. The devastation and sense of loss can be heart crushing. Some things to remember though: 1. They have to live with themselves forever. As long as they stay swimming in selfishness, they lose [...]
Just because something feels true in your head doesn't make it true. If you think you're stupid and it feels true, it doesn't mean it's true. The thought no one could ever love you doesn't make it true. The thought that you'll be in survival mode forever doesn't make it true. What's true is that [...]
Have you thought about giving up on life? It’s quite possible that shutting down, avoiding, and dissociation are what got you to the point you’re at now, and if so, ask yourself this: Have any of those behaviors given you any happiness? Let’s assume the answer is no. And that’s because in order to really [...]
Imagine you’ve worked incredibly hard to get to where you are. You’ve written more than ten books. You’ve taken every class on speaking you could find, and you’ve taught for free wherever they’d have you. You’ve spent decades working on your artistic skills. You’ve served in every position you could find that would teach you [...]
Sometimes things happen in life that leap into the base of your stomach with a thunk and slowly spend the next few days crawling back up the cliff face of your esophagus without a rope. It doesn’t matter who you talk to or how secretive you become about what’s going on—the fear sticks to your [...]
When we lose the feeling of hope and of the ability to have purpose, is it time to end the book? 1. Just because you can’t feel hope now doesn’t mean you never will. 2. Just because you don’t think you have a purpose now doesn’t mean you will never discover it. 3. Just because [...]
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 [...]
I've been thinking a lot this week about the difference between faith and hope. Faith is what you have when you can see the outcome in your mind and you believe it will happen. Hope is what you have when you see an optimal outcome in your mind but you don't believe it will happen. [...]
