What if the question is not why I am so infrequently the person I really want to be, but why do I so infrequently want to be the person I really am?
Joylessness may be the sin most readily tolerated by the church.
We tend to be preoccupied by our problems when we have a heightened sense of vulnerability and a diminished sense of power. Today, see each problem as an invitation to prayer.
Biblically, waiting is not just something we have to do until we get what we want. Waiting is part of the process of becoming what God wants us to be.
Every human being who has ever lived has suffered from a messiah complex-except one.
Make your life about something bigger than your life.
There is something you can't fix, can't heal, or can't escape, and all you can do it trust God. Finding ultimate refuge in God means you become so immersed in his presence, so convinced of his goodness, so devoted to his lordship that you find even the cave is a perfectly safe place to be because he is there with you.
There was a while when I was feeling like, 'Damn, if I'd just been born black, I would not have to go through all this'.
We linked hands—my ex-boyfriend, my boyfriend, and my former friend-then-enemy-then friend and I—and walked through a door to see if maybe empty carbs were good for something after all.
There is no labor a person does that is undignified; if they do it right.
A good umpire is the umpire you don't even notice