Someone once said, "When the whole world is running towards a cliff, he who is running in the opposite direction appears to have lost his mind.” Facts. This needs to be said, because when you're standing alone ― or running alone in the case of the quote ― it's really easy to assume it's because you're in the wrong. Why is that?…...
Read MoreIf you have to radically change who you are to fit a place — you're changing the wrong thing. Full stop. To be clear, there is no place on earth that will be a perfect fit. That's life. You know that already. But you also know that becoming someone else doesn't work either, don't you? A friend recently shared with me…...
Read MoreHave you ever felt like you don't fit in? Like, in a round-hole-kind-of-world, you're more of a square-peg-kind-of-a-person? What if your unique design, gifting, and personality serve a purpose, even if they make you feel like a consummate outsider? Maybe you shouldn't become someone else in order to fit in? Abraham Lincoln once said, "Every man is born an original,…...
Read MoreBeauty and brains and virtue never dwell Together in one place, the critics say Yet we have known a case You must not ask her name But seek it ‘twixt July and May C.S. Lewis penned these lines inside a book he gifted to Sigmund Freud's granddaughter-in-law June. To be clear, Lewis knew her then as June (Jill) Flewett, a sixteen-year-old who…...
Read MoreHere's Your Worldview Reader with links to articles, essays, reviews, & videos I consider to be interesting or important from a biblical worldview. Join me on the first & third Friday every month as I discuss topics from the post with Carmen LaBerge on My Faith Radio around 7:30AM (EST). ⊕ The Lion, the Psychoanalyst, and the Wardrobe ⊕ Brokenness and…...
Read MoreClint Eastwood's 1985 film "Pale Rider" is about a mysterious preacher who shows up, apparently, as the result of a little girl's prayer. Like most cowboy movies, he's there to drive the bad guys out who are bullying the local residents. But there's a powerful scene that puts an honest twist on the twenty-third Psalm that just gets me. The…...
Read MoreHave you ever done an autopsy on the positive change you've experienced in life? What did it look like? What caused it? What kept it going? It's probably worth thinking about, isn't it? In our low moments, we are aware of both our brokenness and despair. It's can be easy to think we will find our way out of despair…...
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