Entries from May 23rd, 2009
My blog last week on Rest – Why is it so hard? stirred some lively discussions. Most could definitely relate. A couple of folks couldn’t. For them rest was easy and they said I should just “rest” and that was that. As I mentioned in that blog, I’m reading Mary Andrews-Dalbey’s “The REST of your [...]
Tags: biblical rest · Mary Andrews-Dalbey · obsessing · performing · relationship · Rest · stress · striving · Work · worrying
Ah Rest – so elusive, so needed, so wanted. I think this goes along with what I said about being task oriented. There is always more to do, more I should do, more I have to do or at least think I do. So taking time to rest, I mean really, truly rest, is hard. [...]
Tags: asking God · Guilt · hearing God · repentance · Rest · task driven
Donald Wickham's Blog Uncategorized Chain of life – we all have a place Importance of the Miraculous Being God's Friend Out of love flows… More of You and Less of Me? The Church of Facebook The Power of Focus The Gospel of the Kingdom The Power of our Words A hodgepodge of maturity Judgement makes [...]
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I was on a coaching call today and the topic was Pride, pride in oneself. My coach believes pride is a virtue and a needed foundation for success. I, on the other hand, struggle with the term. Having been in Christian circles for years, I’ve continually heard pride is a sin. Pride comes before destruction. [...]
Tags: confidence · false humility · Pride · proud · vice · virtue
Our hearts–do we give our hearts much thought? I don’t mean our physical hearts and I think we give our physical hearts more attention anyway. I’m speaking of the heart we love with, as in “I love you with all my heart”. Or “You broke my heart”. That one. For Christians, we we tend to [...]
Tags: broken heart · guard your heart · heart · heart is deceitful · heart treasure · new heart