With an all-or-nothing mind-set, you tend to judge yourself relentlessly…Eeyore becomes your best friend.
We’d avoid a lot of insecurity, if we fully, wholly believed in God’s wild affection for us.
Pain can either thrust me into the arms of Jesus or make me turn my back on Him. Either way, it's a choice.
Sometimes we control our family members because we idolize and idealize our perfect plan over the journey that God has laid out for them. (p. 56)
We cannot love our enemies until we see those twin truths: God loves me. God loves them.
We enslave in the manner we talk to ourselves. But the truth is, God already set us free. He secured our release. To constantly hurt ourselves, resting in our inadequacy, is to call Him a LIAR.
The roadblocks to growth and joy come when we forget the bigness of God & instead make people bigger than He is.
It’s never easy letting go. But if we don’t learn the art of relinquishment, we’ll never move forward to embrace the new relationships God has for us.
