Tag: lessons
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Healing Requires Consent
There is an uncomfortable truth in trying to rescue people: not everyone wants to be rescued. There is a striking detail in the Gospel of John that is easy to skim over. Jesus approaches a man who has been disabled for 38 years, sitting by the Pool of Bethesda, and asks him a startling question:…
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Different Classrooms, Different Lessons: The Divine Syllabus
One of the hardest lessons I’ve had to learn is that not everyone is in the same class learning the same lesson. What God may be teaching you or showing you in the spirit is not for everyone. As it says in Ecclesiastes 3:1, “To everything there is a season, A time for every purpose…
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Purpose
As I sit here in the silence of the morning, I think back to when my children were small. It was always something going on. In fact, there was never a dull moment. Looking back, those times were hilarious. However, at the moment, they made me feel like pulling my hair out. What we don’t…
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Lessons from my dad
I have learned a lot of different lessons from my dad through the years. But one of the greatest lessons I learned from my dad is persistence. In life, things can be complicated, and if we don’t learn the lesson of persistence, it is easy to skim over things in search of an easier answer. My…
