What is it about our expectations, plans, or ideas that hold such sway over us? It is as if we've written a script for a play of our lives that runs about a month ahead of actual life; if reality varies from what we've created in our minds we disengage or pout.
Reality, Acceptance, Christianity
Praise be to God that hope is much more than how we feel on a given day. It exists outside of us; it is an entity in itself.
Faith, Hope, God
We must make decisions as if they affect those we've not even met because we realize they do. We must live respective of world family.
Love, God, Decisions
If we allow our American mindset of consumption to spill into our understanding of what a Christian is, we are in danger of living irrespective of world family.
God, Family, Christianity
Compassion doesn't arise from the belief that the evil in the world is somebody else's fault or that it is a result of poor choices a suffering person has made.
Compassion, God, Suffering
We can make our own plans and judge them by our narrow expectations, or we can experience life as the boundless reality of the One who created it.
Reality, God, Christianity
Conversion of our views of self in light of God is continual. We daily have to take the time to notice and trust in who he is in order to understand who we are. The book of Romans assures us that God's Spirit will fill each moment of our lives if we notice and trust the way he is repairing our humanity.
Self, Christianity, Mindfulness
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