2018 Book List Walking on Water, Madeleine L’Engle Leaving Church, Barbara Brown Taylor What to Remember When waking, David Whyte Women, Food, and God, Geneen Roth Strengthening the Soul of Your Leadership, Ruth Haley Barton Born a Crime, Trevor Noah The Book of Joy, Dalai
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Our wounds can come to shape our ambitions. If you’ve suffered abuse, rejection, or neglect; when your worth and your identity has been threatened, you may be driven by a desire to prove your worth to yourself and others. But “success” for approvals sake is
Stress and anxiety often come from too much expectation and too much ambition. Then when we don’t fulfill that expectation or achieve that ambition we experience frustration. Right from the beginning it is a self-centered attitude – I want this, I want that. Often we
God of Love and Mercy, Give us your heart. Let us be overwhelmed by compassion for ourselves as we move throughout our week, doing for ourselves what we might more easily do for others. Let us be gentle and nurturing, and loving and kind
In out-of-the-way places of the heart, Where your thoughts never think to wander, This beginning has been quietly forming, Waiting until you were ready to emerge. For a long time it has watched your desire, It watched you play with the seduction of safety,
I’ve been working out a Word in me for 2016. I’m calling it the Year of Abandon. Ready to leave some things behind – some things that haven’t served me, and even a lot of things that have. Ready to accept loss as a
“Until one is committed there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans; that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence
Vision and purpose are revealed. Plans are made once you get the revelation. Being a goal-oriented, to-do-list-happy people, we often confuse the process. If anything, plans are the work we must do to live into the potential of what has been revealed; to live
IT COMES FROM the Latin vocare, to call, and means the work a man is called to by God. There are all different kinds of voices calling you to all different kinds of work, and the problem is to find out which is the voice