Thoughts that run through my mind...
Some thoughts this morning: (Summer of 2018)
- Rarely does anyone experience transformation without tribulation. Ease rarely changes us at the fundamental core.
- I've never met someone who was accidentally successful.
- Big dreams cannot be accomplished without good teams.
- Culture-casting is just as important as Vision-casting. The what/where must be coupled with the how/who.
- I've noticed my boys don't want me to watch them play, they want me to play with them. Life is summed up in one word - "with".
- I've noticed the people I deeply respect are the ones who are tenacious, not simply talented. The perseverant, not just the passionate. The faithful, not merely the fruitful.
- You can't fake presence...you can fake many things, but we know when people are fully present or simply just there.
- A holy life doesn't have to be pious and condescending. In fact, when a person is pursuing holiness people wouldn't call it religious, they would refer to it as free and alive.
- "Am I being discipled?" and "Am I discipling anyone?"...these two questions are the plum line of spiritual formation and obedience to the great commandment and great commission.
- To fluidly encourage my fellow man and not my own wife and children is to commit a grievous sin against the divine order of things.
- I've been wondering if my lack of fasting will prove to cost me dearly as I look back upon my life in the coming years.
- The only antidote to greed and the love of money in all forms is a rigorous and religious rhythm of generosity. Giving money away is the only way to not be owned by what I own. I am a steward, not an owner.
- People will only ever always be moving targets. Living variables. The more I try to turn them into fixed objects, the less I treat them as creatures and more like fixtures.
- Settlements and Movements are so, so different. The one is always trying to settle while the other is always trying to move.
- Most of my anxiety is borne out of a desire to control that which is ultimately in God's hands. There is nothing that exposes this more than uncertainty and insecurity.
- I haven't forgiven someone if I'm fantasizing about their demise and rejoicing in their failures and hardships.
- I often wonder how much I'll be eternally rewarded for by God since I'm so conscious of the good that I do. To unknowingly bless those around me is my greatest desire...to glorify God without guile.
- I don't talk to anyone more than I talk to myself. My inner dialogue has to be more constructive and kind if I'm going 'to bear fruit that lasts' as John 15 describes it.
- To hear 'well done' from God requires me to concentrate on being 'good' and 'faithful'. Being 'good and faithful' is not the same as being 'amazing and successful'. I mustn't confuse these two narratives.
Well, that's all that comes to mind for now.
- Rarely does anyone experience transformation without tribulation. Ease rarely changes us at the fundamental core.
- I've never met someone who was accidentally successful.
- Big dreams cannot be accomplished without good teams.
- Culture-casting is just as important as Vision-casting. The what/where must be coupled with the how/who.
- I've noticed my boys don't want me to watch them play, they want me to play with them. Life is summed up in one word - "with".
- I've noticed the people I deeply respect are the ones who are tenacious, not simply talented. The perseverant, not just the passionate. The faithful, not merely the fruitful.
- You can't fake presence...you can fake many things, but we know when people are fully present or simply just there.
- A holy life doesn't have to be pious and condescending. In fact, when a person is pursuing holiness people wouldn't call it religious, they would refer to it as free and alive.
- "Am I being discipled?" and "Am I discipling anyone?"...these two questions are the plum line of spiritual formation and obedience to the great commandment and great commission.
- To fluidly encourage my fellow man and not my own wife and children is to commit a grievous sin against the divine order of things.
- I've been wondering if my lack of fasting will prove to cost me dearly as I look back upon my life in the coming years.
- The only antidote to greed and the love of money in all forms is a rigorous and religious rhythm of generosity. Giving money away is the only way to not be owned by what I own. I am a steward, not an owner.
- People will only ever always be moving targets. Living variables. The more I try to turn them into fixed objects, the less I treat them as creatures and more like fixtures.
- Settlements and Movements are so, so different. The one is always trying to settle while the other is always trying to move.
- Most of my anxiety is borne out of a desire to control that which is ultimately in God's hands. There is nothing that exposes this more than uncertainty and insecurity.
- I haven't forgiven someone if I'm fantasizing about their demise and rejoicing in their failures and hardships.
- I often wonder how much I'll be eternally rewarded for by God since I'm so conscious of the good that I do. To unknowingly bless those around me is my greatest desire...to glorify God without guile.
- I don't talk to anyone more than I talk to myself. My inner dialogue has to be more constructive and kind if I'm going 'to bear fruit that lasts' as John 15 describes it.
- To hear 'well done' from God requires me to concentrate on being 'good' and 'faithful'. Being 'good and faithful' is not the same as being 'amazing and successful'. I mustn't confuse these two narratives.
Well, that's all that comes to mind for now.
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