I’ve never known a person to change his/her mind on social media, or in real life, when someone yelled at them or put them down, regardless of the subject. On the other hand, I have been personally changed by people who I know care about me, listen to me, and love me....
The real things haven't changed. It is still best to be honest and truthful; to make the most of what we have; to be happy with simple pleasures, and have courage when things go wrong.
A man was shipwrecked on an island where no one else lived. He laboriously gathered some material from the island and built himself a crude house. One day he was away from the house when he saw smoke rising from that direction. He rounded a bend and, to his horror,...
At my Christian elementary school, we sang, “Jesus loves the little children…red and yellow, black and white, all are precious in his sight.” In alignment with this song, white people often professed, “I don’t even see color,” reassuring me that I would be safe from...
Look, the world loves us when we are good, better, best, but this is the time when you want to stop feeling guilty that you are not living your best life, now. We’re not always doing mountaintop yoga. I used to have my own delusion of living my own best life...
But the whole question of course is not "What attracts and would help me?" but "Where can I serve God best?"--and usually the answer to to that is, "Where He has put me." from Letters--------------------------------------Gender-neutral version: But the whole question...
It is something we all have experience with--the dust of our lives. We miss the mark of God's best for us when we believe the illusion that our dustiness is only in part of us. Our lives are not...as shiny clean as we like to think they are. Our lives are not free of...
You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.
Is the rich engagement of faith with the deepest and most profound musical expressions of humankind totally off the screen? Are people to be denied this legacy and treated contemptuously? I can only speak from my own experience, which is that people long for what is...
Use the talents you possess,for the woods would be very silentif no birds sang but the best.