If you don't commit to the pursuit of forgiveness, you are harboring hate for someone whom Christ died.
Physical clutter creates mental clutter creates more physical clutter, in a vicious cycle it goes. Your physical surrounding can have a profound effect on you.
If conjuring up warm and fuzzy feelings towards someone who has robbed you of something costly, then I'm afraid God has tasked us with an impossible ask. Luckily he hasn't.
The rare times I placed God's needs above my own, he poured heaven out on me.
Jesus said to love your neighbor - as yourself. He didn't say love your neighbor, and neglect yourself. Inherent in the greatest commandment second to loving God, is that we need to love ourselves too.
All rejection is painful. But rejection will be hard to the degree your identity is based on the metric that is used to reject you.
I don't remember much from my third birthday. But I remember how I felt.
The Bible is not as esoteric as people perceive it to be. If you want God to hear your prayers, do this one thing.
When others seem to outpace you, it's easy to get upset with God for not answering your prayers. But God is not interested in granting your every wish like the fairy godmothers you're used to reading about. He is in the business of trying to make you more like him.
