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 …
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Thankfully God Has Shown Me…
A big part of my transformation came as I learned to, trained myself to believe in God’s love for me. Not just believe that God is love but that God loves me, as I am, even if I never improve. Also, learning to, training myself to receive the love God has for me. Believing in …
Life Is Not Easy and That Is Okay
Life is challenging. We are students of life. We have never done this before. We are figuring it out as we go. We are always in the process of becoming. This should cause us to be kind to ourselves as we navigate and move through life. Most of us think we should be further along, …
confrontation.
It is so hard not to defend yourself when you feel like you are being attacked. When someone tells you something you did wrong or something they think you did wrong, or how you acted mean, prideful, greedy, were rude, judgmental, irresponsible, or just selfish. It is hard not to want to react, to justify, …