One of the fondest expressions around is that we can't be the world's policeman. But guess who gets called when suddenly someone needs a cop.
The methodologies are always different but the message should be the same.
Somebody is n the hospital begging God for the opportunity u have right now. Step into your moment.
You cannot embrace your destiny if you do not let go of your history.
As we forge deeper into this issue of forgiveness, we must be prepared to open up and discuss things that bother us before they escalate to a crisis level. We must examine our struggles with forgiveness in which there are not overt offenses or blatant betrayals. I'm convinced that seeds of resentment take root in the silent frustrations that never get discussed. Other people cannot read our minds--or our palms!--and that is why we have tongues to speak.
If you can't figure out your purpose, figure out your passion. For your passion will lead you right into your purpose.
God has invested entirely too much in you for you to be comfortable in anything less than you were created to be.
Shyness is I-ness. Shyness is really wondering if you have other people's approval.
When I started out I was definitely more traditional. It was 1988. Everyone was doing the Jerry Seinfeld.
I sometimes have to look back and say, "Wow, this is amazing what has happened to me. I have been able to fulfill a lot of these dreams that I had when I was very young. " It's a pretty amazing feeling. But at the same time it becomes addictive!
The freeway experience. . . is the only secular communion Los Angeles has. Mere driving on the freeway is in no way the same as participating in it. Anyone can "drive" on the freeway, and many people with no vocation for it do, hesitating here and resisting there, losing the rhythm of the lane change, thinking about where they came from and where they are going. Actual participation requires total surrender, a concentration so intense as to seem a kind of narcosis, a rapture-of-the-freeway. The mind goes clean. The rhythm takes over.