Only accept 1. The things that you cannot change for now. They exist to change you. Change is everything. 2. The things you are going to change at a later date. Strategy is everything. 3. The things you will need help from other people
2019 CREED. we will- 1. Not feel so bad about disappointing other people’s expectations of us. You can’t please everyone all of the time. 2. Not feel so bad about not having the ability to provide for all the needs people have around our lives. Only God
The art of great leadership isn’t just to own up for making bad decisions, but to take the blame for other people’s bad decisions you had nothing to do with. When people have it in for you they often share their personal gripes that were, in reality, self inflicted
Everyone goes on about church without the weird bits. Once you take out the weird bits you’re mostly left with the boring bits…..and no one wants that. Weird personalities, weird idiosyncrasies and weird wonders are what creates the interest. In a weird way, they help create the family
The perfect fit is everything you never want in your life. You want your ‘clothes’ to be a little too big or a bit too tight, but never just right. You want your city to be too big or too small but never just right. You want your relationships
Psalm 46 states, ‘There is a river that makes glad the City of God.’ The river of God in your life is unstoppable. It will never run out and will transport you into all God has for you. But the river does something else- it carries stuff away. You can’t
Cry Me a River Whether you call yourself an introvert, shy, quiet or just plain reserved, there’s a New You that supersedes the Natural You times a thousand. The bible says that you’re not a lake, a pond, a swamp or a flood. You’re a river. Rivers flow. They’re dynamic.
There’s a time when all water reaches ‘the bridge’ and goes under it. ‘The bridge’ is a moment in time when you need to forget about something that happened, stop trying to fix something that could have been and stop allowing what once was to affect what now is- because
THE DOWNSIDE OF LOVE is being taken for granted. And that hurts. It means that you’ve been used, with little appreciation of all of the sacrifices you’ve made. Yet it’s also the proof of love. Real love asks for nothing in return. It finally pushes the scales