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Life is complicated. With all the joys and wonders of sunsets, the laughter of children and autumn leaves changing color, there are equal amounts of pain and disappointments. Each of us handle pain in a different way… some internalize it, others lash out. Regardless of our responses, the fact is we all deal with pain and we have to be …
Faith is messy. Religion tries to convince us that everything can fit on some sort of ‘holy spreadsheet’ and that the math is pretty straight-forward. The logic goes like this: if you pray enough, or serve enough, then you climb the rungs of ‘prayers that can now be answered.’ As you ascend higher and higher, your elite status is confirmed …
We people sure are funny. After all these years we are still trying to figure out how to separate ‘cause and effect’. Do you know what I mean? Often times we either want the consequence or results of hard work but don’t want to actually do the hard work. Other times we want to do whatever we feel like doing …
Some things just seem like a ‘no-brainer’. You go the grocery store looking for watermelon and find out they are ‘buy one get one free’. Praise the Lord! There’s nothing to think about… you get two. That was easy. However, there are other times in life where the ‘obvious thing’ is not as obvious as it may seem. In Malcolm …
Nobody enjoys being disappointed. You plan, you get excited, your expectations grow and then it all falls flat. Truly, dealing with disappointment is just part of life. However, it is much more than learning how to navigate emotion or finding how to drown your sorrows in a bowl of ice cream! The enemy uses disappointment as a tool to ‘dis-appoint’ …
Have you ever tried to explain to God how your life should be? You carve out a comfortable little niche where only your strengths are highlighted and you avoid your weaknesses and for some reason the Lord won’t let you stay there?! In truth, I’m grateful the Lord won’t leave us in our narcissism, but it’s never pleasant when He’s pushing us …