I’ve been talking to a lot of women lately who have felt rejected because the men in their lives have not lived up to their expectations and they’ve taken it personally. Sometimes I feel like Cher in the movie Moonstruck and I just wanna slap them across the face and say, “Snap out of it”, but that wouldn’t be very Christlike, would it? Believe me, I’ve been there a time or to and I had to learn the hard way that you can’t love somebody into changing. People have to want to change and take the steps all on their own. It’s like having children; you can’t will a baby to walk before they’re ready to take that first step and master the balancing act. That’s a developmental step that happens as p
There comes a time in our lives when we have to make a decision to turn down the volume on the outside noise. To deliberately drown out the chaos that exists outside of our own heads and retreat to that quiet space inside where the still small voice of God can whisper loudly. That sounds like an oxymoron, but once you make that choice, it becomes as plain as the nose on your face. We spend so much time existing to please others that we lose sight of ourselves and forget who we are at our very core. We digress from our true north and wander aimlessly through life storming heaven in prayer for a breakthrough. Once we realize we’ve been playing to the wrong audience and purpose in our hearts to
