When I enter your presence suddenly I’m drained of power, impotent, a first grader trembling in the principal’s office. That’s not my nature! I’m confident, bold, can assert myself when I try, but not with you. It’s an old pattern, […]
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Life Defies Logic
Logic is all very well for the world’s business, but it has little to do with living. Life defies logic. Figuring-out has no place in growth. ~ For Today (Kindle Location 730) But figuring out is what I do! Logic […]
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The definition of forgiving is, “I give up my right to hurt you for hurting me.” ~ Vernetta Howell I can make you hurt, but why? In hurting you, I don’t pass it on, don’t relieve myself of earlier hurt. […]
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I became as compulsive about A.A. as I had been about drinking, which was necessary because I had been told to spend as much time at meetings as I had spent drinking. (Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, page 396) Elsewhere the book says, […]
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When a United Methodist pastor is ordained, he or she is examined on these topics: Have you faith in Christ? Are you going on to perfection? Do you expect to be made perfect in love in this life? Are you […]
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