As humans we are quick to compare and blame, blame and compare. She’s worse than me. He started it. We don’t have to teach children to do either of those; it’s human nature. So, if we teach children to start with themselves, that it doesn’t matter what anyone else does, you are responsible for you and only you, then I think we can start to see impactful change in our world. Of course, we can’t teach what we don’t know. Read More
Category Archives: Spiritual Growth
Label Maker
Identifying and identity are not the same thing. It’s like empathy and pain. When you are empathetic you don’t actually feel someone else’s pain, but you can relate to the pain they’re experiencing. In the same way, if you identify yourself as something that doesn’t mean you are what you relate to simply because you’ve experienced times of feeling a certain way. Read More
Path of Righteousness
The path of righteousness often feels hard but Jesus told us in Matthew 7 that it would be. Yet we are still surprised at the isolation we feel, the hazards we encounter, the darkness that surrounds us, and the struggle with feeling lost. Read More
Expelling Fear
Perfect love. Do we really know or understand what that means? It isn’t love by human effort. It isn’t simply a feeling. It’s definitely not infatuation. In order to expel fear, we need to know what perfect love is, don’t we? Read More
Judge A Book by Its Cover
“Don’t judge a book by its cover,” seems like sage advice but how else will you know if it’s worth reading? So, we judge because we need a way to gauge the contents. But here is the flaw in the process: Read More
Deeper Growth 