I listened to Ernest Hemingway’s book The Old Man and the Sea this week. Initially, I thought it was terrible. I said as much when I got home last night after finishing the book. Dean looked the book up and said it was about perseverance. My thought was, “yeah but he got nothing for his …
Tag: choice
Love Your Neighbor As Yourself
Jesus said, “Love your neighbor as yourself.” (Matthew 22:39) Do you love yourself? If you do not love yourself then you are not going to be able to love your neighbor very well. I admit that I did not like or love myself for the longest time. I did not feel worthy of love because …
Choose love.
What do we often choose instead of love? We choose to be unkind. We choose to be selfish. We choose to judge. We choose to compare. We choose to be bitter, resentful, angry, and any other emotions that do not serve us. When we choose something other than love who feels something other than love …