Non-stop news. Overflowing schedules. Phones that won’t stop dinging. Mental and emotional frakis. You're right, "frakis," isn't a word, but you get the gist. Not everyone’s life is like this. But for a lot of people this is a daily reality. One of my favourite verses from the psalms is Psalm 61:2. David says: “lead … Continue reading The rock that is higher than I
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The excuses we use to fool ourselves
R. Alan Culpepper says: “The most dangerous excuses are those with which we fool ourselves.”* Ouch. Excuses are escape hatches. We use them to somehow excuse ourselves from doing what is right. We excuse a way of thinking, or speaking, or a habit, or a decision, or whatever. As a result we compromise our integrity. … Continue reading The excuses we use to fool ourselves