You see, there is always something bigger at play in all of the struggles we experience. Like a flower blooming in its time, life is truly about the emergence of the person God created us to be.
We’re living in a self-help, self-love world, am I right? Scroll your Instagram feed, and you’ll see self-love motivational memos plastered everywhere.
As we take this journey to discover what constitutes a beautiful life, we find that Jesus doesn’t want us to get rid of our desires; he wants us to seek him for their fulfillment. Why?
I’ve always said I wish God could teach me the biggest lessons without the biggest heartaches. But I usually find it’s seasons of grief and suffering when I learn the most.
Here's the deal: those identical statements mean nearly opposite things. Our culture wants us to love ourselves by putting ourselves first
All of us are created with deep, profound needs, so naturally we seek to satisfy those needs. But unfortunately, we often seek to satisfy those needs in ways that are not only unsatisfying, but also sometimes downright harmful.
You can't really talk about leadership unless you talk about Jesus. Even if you aren't a follower of Jesus, it's undeniable that Jesus is the greatest leader who ever lived.
If we get only one shot at today, at life, how can we best live? Who should we be? How should we move through our days?
Every journey begins with a single step in the right direction, but as life goes on, when we don't have our eyes fixed on the outcome, it's all too easy to veer off track. You've probably heard it said that when our focus is off by even just one degree over a long enough time, that leads us to places we'd never planned on going.
Who are we? Why are we here? How do we find our place in this creative, painful, beautiful thing called life? What's the main thing we should be keeping our eyes on? We all want to figure out life. We want to understand. We want to know what it all means. And that's where I want to begin.
