You don’t have to do things others do, or have things they have, at the expense of the deeper things you want. You really don’t. Almost everything is an option. You have full permission to ask yourself what really matters to you—whatever that is—and then optimize for that in all hard tradeoffs of life. You’re going to have to make some sacrifices... See more
Maybe you feel like you’re breaking or losing it. Maybe it even feels like you’re dying inside. But I promise you, it’s the opposite. Things may be falling away that you once held so close. Beliefs. Habits. Friendships. Behaviors. Hobbies. Relationships. Ways of thinking. Etc. And it may feel like you are falling away with them. Because you have... See more
Adopting Martha, just after my 34th birthday, was a way to acknowledge to myself and to the world that I was living my life, not in anticipation of something else happening in the future, but because it was my one and only life.
Nature is the first Scripture and the Bible is the second. If we can’t be in right relation with the first, we will never be in right relation with the second.