“However painful the past may have been, it can also feel more stable than the uncharted territory of living without it. Sometimes we prefer to live in the uncertainty of dysfunction rather than embrace the uncertainty of change. At that point we can become so attached to our wounds that they become part of who […]
“For me to move forward, for me to see beyond this current darkness, is between me and the Lord. I don’t need to wait on others to do anything. . . . I simply must obey whatever God is asking of me right now. God has given me a new way to walk. And God […]
“Jesus sees you. This Bethesda of your life? Others avoid you because of it. Jesus walks toward you in the midst of it. He has a new version of you waiting to happen.”- Max Lucado “Jesus told him, ‘Stand up, pick up your mat, and walk.’ Instantly the man was healed, He rolled up his […]
“Odds are . . . you have been stuck. Lodged between a rock and a hard place, unable to escape. Mired in the mud of resentment, bogged down in debt, trapped in a dead-end job, up to your waist in the swamp of an unsolvable conflict. Stuck.”- Max Lucado ‘One of the men lying there […]
“Fear of change can be highly motivating- and ultimately limiting.”- Kyle Idleman Kyle Idleman continues Chapter 6 of The End of Me as he discusses two reasons people lay down “roots in a place of quiet desperation and low expectations” rather than accept help. 1. Fear of change. The man at the Bethesda Pool had […]