The most difficult times in our lives come from transitioning from one version of ourselves to another.
01665 – Versions of Ourselves
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01597 – Challenged to Change Ourselves
When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.
01566 – Not at Peace
We are not at peace with others because we are not at peace with ourselves, and we are not at peace with ourselves because we are not at peace with God.
01546 – Judging Blinds Ourselves
By judging others we blind ourselves to our own evil and to the grace which others are just as entitled to as we are. from The Cost of Discipleship
01494 – Everything that Irritates
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
01491 – Leave the Results to God!
It is quite impossible for any of us to measure ourselves and estimate our progress. Our job, having found the path we honestly believe God wishes us to follow, is to go quietly on with it and leave the results to Him! from Letters (February 21,...
01340 – Trusting God’s Presence at Our Worst Times
The alligator--the chaos, the storm, the danger, the divorce, the illness, the crisis--and the human response--what you and I do in the midst of chaos--and the presence of God in chaos--these are profound issues of faith. And the stories about chaos and God and us are...
01332 – Gods Love: Only on Our Terms?
The truth that the cross of Christ embodies about us is certainly that we are loved by God, but that we are loved as prodigals, as problematic creatures, as beings whose alienation from God, from one another, from ourselves, and from the inarticulate creation is so...
01329 – Is There Another Way for Us?
If we seek a God we can handle, that will be exactly what we get: a God we can manipulate, suspiciously like ourselves, the wideness of whose mercy we've cut down to size. Is there another way for us?
01260 – Don’t Risk Losing Touch with God
The God of biblical faith is the God who meets us at those moments in which for better or worse we are being most human, most ourselves, and if we lose touch with those moments, if we don’t stop from time to time to notice what is happening to us and around us and...