Are SMALL things the BIG things in life? It all matters. That someone turns out the lamp, picks up the windblown wrapper, says hello to the invalid, pays at the unattended lot, listens to the repeated tale, folds the abandoned laundry, plays the game fairly, tells the...
Love your kid. No matter how you differ. Love your kid. Tell them you do. Show them you do. Make sure they know, even when you don’t love their choices, even when they don’t share your convictions, that you love them and you are there for them. Right there for...
Chaos is impatient. It's random. And above all it's selfish. It tears down everything just for the sake of change, feeding on itself in constant hunger. But chaos can also be appealing. It tempts you to believe that nothing matters except what you want. from The...
To love, my brothers and sisters, does not mean we have to agree. But maybe agreeing to love is the greatest agreement. And the only one that ultimately matters, because it makes a future possible. from Love is the Way: Holding on to Hope in Troubling Times
Every day in a hundred small ways our children ask, "Do you see me? Do you hear me? Do I matter?" Their behavior often reflects our response.
The more we persist in misunderstanding the phenomena of life…the more we involve ourselves in sadness, absurdity, and despair. But it does not matter much, because no despair of ours can alter the reality of things, or stain the joy of the cosmic dance which is...
High School Students: Be kind in high school. Be kind. One day you will get to look at your current classmates at a class reunion. You will get to do business with them in your hometown or elsewhere. You will get to teach your former classmates’ children, or doctor...
I'm trying to learn (or re-learn) that, in the end, what matters most is not my ability to "produce" but my ability to love.
"Love your neighbor as yourself" matters most when our common understanding is least.
"They follow the Lamb wherever He goes" (Revelation 14:4). You’re looking at one of the clearest definitions of discipleship in the whole Bible. Our mission first and foremost is to be Jesus followers. Unless we do that, little else matters. from The Heart of...