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Disappointment part 2

08/11/2018 18:04

Expectation leads to disappointment. That's inevitable. You know, until we learn how to live--how to love--without expectation. But in the meantime, I think its important to focus on what happens after we GET disappointed. And as far as I'm concerned, as my momma always says, we need to "toughen...

Disappointment part 1

08/10/2018 17:46

In the last Rant series we talked about how having expectations dooms you to disappointment. Because if you expect one thing to happen, that means there's only one way you WON'T be disappointed. And about a million billion trillion ways that you will be. So I thought we should follow that up with a...

Expectations part 5

08/09/2018 19:41

God loves us with expectations. Which, of course, is why (and how) we can love each other without expectations. Because what happened was, on the cross God filled us with His Holy Spirit. He took up abode within us. He conformed us to the image of His beloved Son in whom He is well pleased. He made...

Expectations part 4

08/08/2018 19:40

If you expect one thing then there's only one way for you to not be disappointed. And a million billion trillion ways for you to be disappointed. See what I mean about setting yourself up for failure? Being doomed to disappointment? But if you take things for what they are--instead of what you wish...

Expectations part 3

08/07/2018 19:39

Where things get tricky is in relationships. I've always found even the idea of two people--two completely individual, unique, different people--smashing their lives together. Differing opinions. Differing ideas. Differing... expectations. I guess I'm trying to say it takes a lot to make a...

Expectations part 2

08/06/2018 19:37

The more I think about it--and you might have noticed that I think about this subject quite a bit--the more I wonder why we think people should live up to OUR expectations in the first place. Like, just because something's right for ME doesn't mean its right for everybody (or anybody) else. There...

Expectations part 1

08/05/2018 20:00

I'm just going to go ahead and dive into a full Rant series on the folly of having expectations. I talk about it a lot, but I want to really dig into it. Because I believe our expectations are our biggest roadblocks. It seems to me that the reason we get so disappointed isn't because of how things...

Fullness part 5

08/04/2018 18:47

When you're full of something, you can't keep it in. No matter how hard you try. That's the principle behind living from the inside-out. And that happens whether you realize it or not. What's inside WILL come out. Or, I should say, what you BELIEVE is inside will come out. It has to. So the key to...

Fullness part 4

08/03/2018 19:49

You're full of it. No, really, you are. In the very best way. Because Jesus is the fulness of the Godhead bodily. All of God in a human body. God in the flesh, love in a body. God in YOUR flesh, love in YOUR body. As He is, so are we in this world. Everything God is, is everything you are. And God...

Fullness part 3

08/02/2018 19:55

Its scary when you think you don't have what you need. Terrifying. And if its truly something that you NEED, not just WANT, you'll be willing to do just about anything to get it. That's why religion is so seductive; we think it gives us our best chance of getting what we need. And we don't mind...

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