One season inevitably leads to another but thinking that we will always be in the same season with the same people is a sure fire way to be disappointed. Sometimes you cannot appreciate the mountaintop until you have walked through the valley. Rock bottom has built more heroes that privilege.
Read MoreI believe that there are one of two prisons that each of us have done hard time in – the prison of what others think about us and the penitentiary of being on lockdown to the picture in our minds of what we thought our lives are supposed to look like.
Read MoreSo, why are we so busy? Why are we filling every waking moment with something? Why are we running ourselves ragged? Perhaps we view our busyness as a badge of honor and trendy status symbol – a way to show our value, importance, or worth in this fast-paced society in which we live.
Read MoreWe stay stuck in an old story rather than embrace a new truth. Many choose a familiar misery over a foreign happiness. We’ve hit the repeat button in our minds long after the song has stopped playing.
Read MoreDon’t settle for less just because it’s available. The compromises we make become the life we settle for. If you forfeit the process, you forfeit the promise.
Read MoreIn order to thrive in life, we must surround ourselves with people who speak to the potential of our future, not the pain of our past.
Read MoreIf you keep trying to impress people, you will impress them right into your own depression - trying to climb out of a pit of what people see. Life is too short to worry about what people who exist in a free app in your phone think of you. The price of acceptance is too high if it costs who you are.
Read MorePerhaps there is something that has transpired in your life – a choice that did not turn out like you hoped or a life altering event that you had no control over – that has you feeling like you now have some sort of glitch. You have a scar. You have something that just gnaws on you and on your mind.
Read MoreIf you want to identify who is really for you, they’ll mourn when you mourn and rejoice when you rejoice. Watch their reaction when you share good news. If they are not happy for you, stop talking. Most people aren’t out to get you. However, when you realize who is for you versus who is with you, you’ll see your peace increase!
Read MoreHave you stopped to consider that the process you may be right in the middle of – the one where it feels and looks like nothing is happening, where nothing is changing – could actually be the point right before transformation begins to happen?
Read MoreFriend, your story could be the key that unlocks someone else’s prison. Other people can find healing in your wounds. Your greatest life messages and most effective testimony will come out of your deepest hurts.
Read MoreIsn’t it unreal how quickly our thoughts can derail us and get our emotions worked up into a frenzy? It happens to all of us. We suddenly realize what we’re thinking and wonder, Wait, how did I work myself into such a state? Maybe you’re angry again. Frustrated, lonely, disillusioned, heartbroken, anxious, fearful, defeated.
Read MoreHave you ever built something that you never wanted to out of guilt? Obligation? Shame? Pressure? Impatience? Trying to please someone? Then one day, you just snap. You realize that you are just not happy and maybe even miserable. All hands should be raised because we all have. There is good news, though.
Read MoreHow many times have we been a resident of a prison that we ourselves have created? How many hurts, pains, and rejections have we carried with us for years? How much poison of unforgiveness and bitterness have we drank, hoping it will hurt someone else?
Read MoreWe tuck ourselves away in isolation to not be seen, to not have to deal, to not have to confront a situation, to not face the consequences of our past, to not make a decision and we sit hoping and wishing that we can just wait it out. The thing of it is though, we can run but we cannot truly hide – from ourselves.
Read MoreYou and I can trick people into believing that we’re better than we are with slick language, cleverly practiced clichés, and the biggest smile. The worst kind of deception is self-deception, though. This is when the lies that we’ve been telling have become almost second nature that we start tricking ourselves into believing them.
Read MoreThe greatest pain and pleasure you will experience in your life will be in the context of relationship. Someone who is meant to be in your corner, you will never have to beg them to be there or to stay. Let the people who naturally gravitate to you, enjoy who you are.
Read MoreWhen purpose is not known, abuse is inevitable. The greatest tragedy in life is not death but life without a purpose. It is more tragic to be alive and not know why than it is to be dead and not know life.
Read MoreWe live in a world where we want a reputation without repetition. A true reputation is not built by what you occasionally do, or wish that you were or want people to see you as - it’s not something you project or perfect. Your real reputation comes from relationship and repetition.
Read MoreDon’t just go through the process – grow through the process. You cannot speed up your growth process but you can slow it down. This will require building a fence around those seeds you have planted in the garden of your growth process.
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