Is That Why I'm Tired?

"The most exhausting thing in life, I have discovered, is being insincere. That is why so much of social life is exhausting; one is wearing a mask."

Anne Morrow Lindberg
Gift From The Sea  p. 32
Vintage/Random Books   1983

MY SIGNIFICANCE--YOUR SIGNIFICANCE

"My salvation and my significance depend ultimately on God."
Psalm 62:7 The Voice

That significance, via Strong's, means honor, abundance, reputation, or dignity. Inferiority feelings? They are just that: feelings.

Copy That,
Lonnie

WHY ASK WHY?

"Decide you 'll only ask questions that help you move forward instead of feeling stuck in the reasons something happened. "What" questions increase our ability to become self-aware, while "why" questions only focus on things out of our control."  (Emphasis mine)

Lysa TerKeyrst
Uninvited  p.135
Thomas Nelson   2016

I don't know about anyone else; I need that!
EverGrowing,
Lonnie

BOOKS TALK--I TALK BACK

The author of my recent read has a casual relationship with God . . . and with other gods, as well. 

Books talk--I talk back.

"I've written "ish!" in several margins.

Then God talks: 

"Every "ish!" is a prayer opportunity."

God, reveal Yourself as the only God, and the ONLY ONE needed!

EverGrowing,

Lonnie

THIGH GAP

"I stood at my full-length mirror and tried to manipulate a thigh gap. If I turned my toes in just so and pushed my backside out a tad and begged my hips to pretend to adjust to an unrealistic angle and forced my knees to bow, then voila! For a brief millisecond a sliver of light appeared."

Lysa Terkeurst
Uninvited  p.104
Nelson Books  2016

WOUNDED, THUS UNBELIEVING

"I see that sense of loss in the eyes of my friend Richard, even now. He says he does not believe in God, but keeps bringing up the subject, protesting too loudly. From where comes this wounded sense of betrayal if no one is there to do the betraying?"

Philip Yancey
Disappointment With God  p. 222 nook
Zondervan  1998

COMPARING SINS

"So a Sunday school teacher compares herself to a prostitute. A porn looker or drug user says, 'At least I don't sell it!"

However, when we start comparing, we also start grading. And our sins are never as bad as someone else's. But sin is sin, and the wages of sin is death." 

Romans 6::23

Convicted,
Lonnie