The great lesson of Beauty and the Beast is: a thing must be loved before it is lovable.
01753 – Loved Comes First
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01745 – Great Things, Small Things
If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.
01740 – The Greatest Thing…
The greatest thing we can do is let people know they are loved.
01709 – Seeing through Sorrow
There are many things that can only be seen through eyes that have cried.
01492 – Lives Built on Frenzy & Compulsive Busyness
One of the most serious dangers confronting those who minister in the city is that their lives come to be built on frenzy and compulsive busyness. This usually leads to a lack of focus, a tendency to accumulate more and more things, a collapse of reflection, and the...
01460 – Heeding our “Low Battery” Warning
To refresh and re-energize, we can learn a few things from our devices. Disconnect, power down, unplug, re-charge, re-connect. When we ignore the 'low battery' warning in life, we risk hyper-anxiety, depression, chronic fatigue, and burnout. If our Creator rested on...
01396 – Silence About Things that Matter
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
00987 – Seeing People as Human Beings
The real tragedy is that we see people as entities or merely as things. Too seldom do we see people in their true humanness. A spiritual myopia limits our vision to external accidents. We see men as Jews or Gentiles, Catholics or Protestants, Chinese or American,...
00602 – Converting Rebellious Wills
It cost God nothing, so far as we know, to create nice things: but to convert rebellious wills cost him crucifixion. from Mere Christianity ————————Gender-neutral version: It cost God nothing, so far as we know, to create nice things: but to convert rebellious wills...