"When you don't love yourself, you stop believing that others can - including God." - meAfter my last post, I did a lot of thinking. I wrote privately, and through that realized a major issue. I've come to a place where I can't accept love. This is the root of the problem. (How I got here is another story in itself for another day ( Read more... )

I have avoided and neglected this journal for a long time now...but here goes nothing ( Read more... )

Out of the same mouth come praise and cursing. My friends, this shouldn't be." James 3:10 ( Read more... )

I write a lot about struggles here, and while they're legitimate, I know there is something else equally if not more legitimate ( Read more... )

Maybe we condemn other people because we ourselves have lived in the same shoes once. How is it that we can lose touch with what our needs once were in those low times, and not extend our love to meet those needs in others?

Once we're released from our trials, we are so quick to forget the One who released us; so eager to secure our place at the

( riddance yet without the good )

...did Christianity's focus become judging & putting others down because "your life doesn't measure up to mine" ? Those who view it that way - believers or not - are missing the entire point. It's unfortunate that we have tainted the name ( Read more... )

Shouldn't what you do outside of church reflect what you would see as suitable to bring inside the church?

Think about it...

We might as well lay everything on the table.

"The man without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned. 1 Corinthians 2:14 ( Read more... )

Me: God, blah blah blah blah blah blah blah and blah blah blah blah blah blah oh and blah blah blah blah blah blah blah, blah and blah blah...um...blah blah blah blah, what about blah blah? blah blah blah! blah blah blah, blah...blah. blah ( Read more... )