Strengthening Faith, Love, and Hope
Strengthening Faith, Love, and Hope
Recently, upon watching Kobe Bryant artfully complete an improbable jump shot, a commentator exclaimed, “Folks, that’s the best you’ll ever see!” And then his partner jumped in to add, “And, folks, that’s the best you’ll ALWAYS see.” When I heard those words they ignited something deep inside me, and I thought, “I want that to be MY living epitaph.” I want my best life to be…
Image via Wikipedia Comparison is deadly…and yet we probably all do it. It’s human nature to compare and compete, and even when we’re in our super-holy, I’m-only-serving-for-the-glory-of-God mode, we still fall prey to this tendency. And that’s so foolish because we all carry enough baggage and insecurity to make it nearly impossible for us to make objective comparisons. We usually end up comparing our weaknesses with someone else’s strengths.…
I must be in a stretch of bad luck right now. I got to enjoy kidney stones a few weeks ago, and then yesterday I broke a tooth in half. But the real bummer wasn’t just the jagged edge of my molar that I couldn’t keep my tongue away from, or the exposed nerves that made drinking my morning coffee a torturous affair (I still…
I discovered an unattractive feature about myself the other day: my issues (and I have plenty of them) tend to run together. Do yours? I noticed that I can be stressed out or discouraged about something trivial, and then if I’m not careful, it can attract all of my other discouragements and create a snowball effect that overwhelms me, and ruins my peace and confidence. On…
Well, I went and did it again…I fell off the wagon…had a relapse…went back to my old ways. I would probably be more discouraged with myself if it wasn’t for the fact that you probably did it too. We all fall prey to the busyness of life that pushes us out of sync with God’s rhythm of grace, and leaves us in the perilous place…