Patience isn’t natural. Selflessness isn’t natural. Even kindness isn’t always natural… but these are the things we must consistently practice in order to have healthy relationships. Great relationships require 2 people making conscious choices to do more than just what comes naturally.
Become the person that the person you’re looking for is looking for. We keep thinking the answer to our problems is someone else, and that belief puts faulty expectations on every relationship we’ll ever have.
Our pursuit of INSTANT gratification always messes up our pursuit of FUTURE gratification. We have to start using our time and resources in the right way in order to end up at the right destinations in our lives!
Following every small distraction & deviation takes us towards a new destination. It might be fun for a moment, but the pain of the eventual consequences always outweighs the gain. Putting up guardrails to keep us moving in the right direction produces things like satisfaction & contentment. Those things are way more fun in the…
If you don’t like exactly where you are, change the direction you’ve been going. Direction always determines destination. At the beginning of a new year is the best time to take the courageous step to make a change in one area of your life for a better future!
We’re giving our volunteers the weekend off & diving into a one-week series called “Stop Going to Church”.
Why does it feel like the holidays are the time of the year where we face the most disappointment?! And in the midst of that disappointment, any semblance of peace goes right out the window. How do we get it back?
If you are on a continual search to be offended, you will always find what you’re looking for. The peace we experience isn’t about what is said or done to us, but rather, about the way we choose to react & respond to those offenses. We weren’t called to be right. We were called to…