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 [...]
Entries from May 23rd, 2009
Rest – Why is it so hard?
May 16th, 2009 2 Comments
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
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May 13th, 2009 1 Comment
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Pride – Vice or Virtue
May 8th, 2009 No Comments
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
Treating Our Heart for the Treasure It Is
May 1st, 2009 No Comments
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