These guidelines won't turn you into an extrovert who enjoys socializing. But they will help you to become an enjoyable person to be around: someone who cares, someone who is engaged, someone who is authentically open to listening and serving. [Click title to read more.]
Category: Christian growth
Stop Making Failure Easy
One of the best things we can do is to get out of our own way. [Click title to read more.]
Empathy After The Fact
If we only ever feel empathy after encountering something personally or through someone near to us, we have a problem. [Click title to read more.]
Life Lessons From Bird Photography
Photographing birds (or at least trying) teaches me a lot about my Christian walk. [Click title to read more.]
On “Thoughts And Prayers”
The truth is that the phrase "thoughts and prayers," or the offhanded promise "I'm praying for you," can be empty. It can be performative. It can be meaningless. And before believers utter it - whether in text, on Twitter, in person, or anywhere else - we'd do well to ask ourselves a few questions and to think about what it is we're really saying. [Click title to read more.]
Eight Things You Should Do Today
Eight ways to make your day, and your mindset, a little better. [Click title to read more.]
More To Learn
We have a long, long way to go. And that's a great thing. [Click title to read more.]
Shhhh. (Sometimes The Best Thing You Can Is To Keep Quiet)
Solicitous silence is a practice we could stand to engage in more often. [Click title to read more.]
The Complex Nature of Gratitude
Gratitude, as I see it, is about accepting whatever we are given - good, bad, and ugly - with the joy that comes of understanding of God's true nature. [Click title to read more.]
Spiritual Growth Is Not Instant Gratification
Our spiritual "exercise" - our study, our prayers, our time with God - yields results in unexpected ways, at unexpected times, and not always on our schedule. [Click title to read more.]
Samaritan's Song 