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You just make a choice. But seriously. I think sometimes we try to make somethings cuter than they are. Just choose. I mean, if it’s simply that you don’t like the person, well, c’mon man. There will always be those people we don’t like. That’s life. So instead of bemoaning it or allowing it to…
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Unfortunately for some of us, no. Well, honestly, I guess unfortunately for all of us because we all have those people who have hurt us deeply and we just wish we could be done with them.   We are called to love everyone. However, we are also called to be wise. So what does wise…
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Once we accept Jesus’ unconditional love for us, we are begin healing. We begin to feel accepted. Worthwhile. Secure. We stop looking to everyone and everything to make us feel okay. We look to Jesus. And this allows us to love and to serve others. We are whole people. We are forgiven. We are free.…
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Why do we have trouble loving others unconditionally? Two reasons:   We don’t love ourselves. We aren’t receiving love from anyone.   If we don’t love ourselves, we will be unwilling to receive love from others because we believe we are unworthy. Because there is no love going in, we have no love going out.…
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We get by with choosing who to love by using the excuse of feelings. Dose that person make you mad? Does that person hurt your feelings? Does that person scare you? Does that person annoy you? Do you just not “mesh” with that person? Do you just not get along with that person? The extension…
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Kinda crazy title for a blog post on love, am I right? Well, sometimes we are just curious. Like, if we know we are going to have to love some tough, annoying, insensitive people, we’d like to think we weren’t just throwing ourselves in front of a bus to be run over. So what’s the…
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You may have been reading along with our blogs and you are now at the point where you are thinking (if I may be so bold)… …Okay…you have me somewhat convinced that this whole loving others thing may (I repeat may) be a good idea. But I’m not fully there, yet. What you got for…
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So we’ve been talking about loving people. That’s great. But if you aren’t an extrovert or a people person, if you are a complete loner and really would rather stay that way, THEN WHAT THE HECK DO YOU DO? Or maybe you are a no-thrills, very simple person and are wondering how elaborate this whole…
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So this question is not the easiest to answer. Why, you ask? Well, we have two very different groups of people who are reading this (And be kind to me. I realize each group has several subcategories, but for the sake of not writing a novel, humor me): Jesus Followers. Not Jesus Followers (again, be…
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