Posts with the tag “boundaries”

Let's begin by asking the uncomfortable question: Do we actually trust God?Most of us would say yes, but if we looked at our calendars it might share a different answer.When we refuse to rest, we do more than exhaust ourselves. We quietly declare that everything depends on us. We fill every margin. We answer every notification. We chase every opportunity. And without meaning to, we turn accumulati...  Read More

You do not need to be spiritually advanced to begin a spiritual life. You don't need certainty. You don't need to hold the perfect belief. You don't even need to have a dramatic conversion story.You only need willingness.Intensity does not produce transformation. Repetition does. Event-driven spirituality often leads to greater disconnect and eventually burnout. We rely upon expectations. They sha...  Read More

To love well is to love fully, and that means being vulnerable.We are created to share life with others. Not superficially, or transactionally. But deeply, through trust, honesty, presence, and mutual care. As C.S. Lewis once observed, if you open your treat, it will be broken. There is no alternative. Love requires exposure. // Exposure requires risk.Showing up requires courage. // Courage requir...  Read More

We are all created with the capacity to receive the love of God, and to share that love with others. In fact, Jesus makes this plainly clear to his disciples. All of the Bible boils down to the two greatest commandments:1) Love God with everything we are; and2) Love others AS we love ourselves. The thing about this: Jesus doesn't just preach this, he lives this out in its fullest. This makes it ra...  Read More

We want to find wholeness. We want to live full lives. So we work on ourselves to be physically, emotionally, and spiritually healthy. Yet most of us were never taught how to be whole.We were taught how to perform, achieve, behave, believe in the right things. But rarely were we taught how to integrate our emotions, our bodies, our histories, our faith into a coherent, grounded self. We look at ea...  Read More