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I Can Do All Things?
One thing that really gets my goat is a trite word spoken when I’m down and out. We’ve all had it happen. We hear it all the time. Clichés. Words that don’t help. Phrases that roll of the tongue with ease, doing nothing for the hearer. When I’m down, I don’t want or need someone casually throwing me a lifeline that has no merit. I need real help. I need someone to jump in the trench with me. Hurt with me. A clutch player with skills to make something happen.
After all, when we’re in that vulnerable position of discouragement, do trite words spoken ever lift us?
Sometimes they even do the opposite.
Today, I want to propose a game changer in your life.
United for Prayer?
Martin Luther King Jr. said it well when he spoke the resonating words: “The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.”
And I’d say the days in which we live are ripe and full of challenge and controversy.
But yet, I saw it with my very own eyes.
Beyond the Darkness with CLARISSA MOLL.
Today is a golden moment I hope you don’t pass up. I had the amazing privilege to interview an expert in Christian grief and loss, one who is eager and ready to help us all.
Join us today by clicking the podcast episode image, as author/speaker Clarissa Moll takes us Beyond the Darkness.
The Good Old Days?
Never in my wildest dreams did I think I’d catch myself saying the phrase—at least not yet in life. It’s something that I knew others to say, my grandfather or dad, perhaps. In the last month, however, the words slipped out of my mouth twice! And both times they about knocked me over.
“The good old days.” The fond reminders of what once was.