

"Loving God Loving Myself" Week Nine, Day Three "Pull Over or Keep On Driving"
Draw me, however unwilling, to make me willing; draw me, slow-footed, to make me run. —St. Bernard I (Jerry) know myself well enough by...


"Loving God, Loving Myself" Week Eight, Day Three -- That's Not What It Means"
The secret killer of innovation is shame. You can’t measure it, but it is there. Every time someone holds back on a new idea, fails to...


"Loving God, Loving Myself" Week Seven, Day Four -- Piece By Piece"
God uses broken things. It takes broken soil to produce a crop, broken clouds to give rain, broken grain to give bread, broken bread to...


"Loving God, Loving Myself" Week Six, Day Four -- Is There A Door Number Three?"
Our todays are shaped by our yesterdays. What is past may also be a prison— a prison of recurring painful patterns of thinking, feeling...


"Loving God, Loving Myself" Week Five, Day One -- That's A Wound"
If we conceal our wounds out of fear and shame, our inner darkness can neither be illuminated nor become a light for others. —Brennan...


"Loving God, Loving Myself" Week Four, Day Four -- He Knows Our Smell"
When my two-year-old son wanted his mom or dad to carry him, he would hold out his hands saying, “Upple, Momma, upple. Upple, Dadda,...


"Loving God, Loving Myself" Week Three, Day One -- You're Just Like Your Father"
You teach what you know, But you impart who you are. -—Jack Frost Jesus came to point us to the Father. If you have seen Jesus, you have...


"Loving God, Loving Myself" Week Two, Day Three -- Assumptions"
We are created by love, to live in love, for the sake of love. —Gerald May An assumption is a “no-brainer,” a supposition assumed to be...


"Loving God, Loving Myself" Week One, Day Two -- Can You Love Yourself Too Much?"
Christianity does not come in order to develop the heroic virtues in the individual, but rather to remove self-centeredness and establish...