Trust. I keep returning to this word and value it more and more with each passing day. I don’t dismiss the term “love,” and I understand why people get so hung up on it. To me, though, trust is a more important term. I hear people give away the word love cheaply when they say […]
Read More JJ 24 #34: A Matter of TrustYou must do what is right. It’s very sad that we live in an age where what is right can be personalised. It suggests that what is right is only what is right for you. And it goes on to suggest that just because it’s right for you does not mean it’s right for everyone […]
Read More JJ 24 #33: What’s RightI may have mentioned that I do not subscribe to the idea that the ends justify the means. That type of mentality reminds me of the kind of people I used to know who were very ambitious. Driven people who were clear that the goal was all and anything they could do to reach it […]
Read More JJ 24 #32: Ways and MeansServing others is sometimes about giving others the platform to flourish. When I was much younger, I muddled around with activities that gave the impression I knew what I was doing, but I was largely without direction. I had an awareness of what I could do, I knew what I enjoyed doing, and I had […]
Read More JJ 24 #31: Being A PlatformDid you pass, or did you fail? We don’t want to say that things are always black or white. We don’t like the binary way things work out occasionally. We prefer the element of ambiguity, the shades of grey, the aspect in which it isn’t one thing or the other but a mix—a hodgepodge. I […]
Read More JJ 24 #30: Pass or FailThere is an interesting approach to life that says it’s good to believe the best and expect the worst. This is applied particularly to whatever requires interaction with others. When we believe in the best, it expresses the part in us that believes we can work together coherently and produce the goods. We believe it, […]
Read More JJ 24 #29: Trust Us to be Typically HumanI am very glad that Jesus warned me about suffering. I don’t like pain, you see, so when I read episodes in scripture like the ones in Acts where the apostles rejoice after getting flogged, I know that this only happens because of Jesus. I know they can only rejoice because they recall what following […]
Read More JJ 24 #28: Constituent PartsI get irritable sometimes, so it’s a work of grace to drag me out of that when I get there and need to consider those things. Even the mechanics of things can make me appreciate the admirable. Take blogging, for example. It’s something that I’ve been doing for nearly two decades. I appreciate that in […]
Read More JJ 24 #27: When I Get IrritableWe have a role to perform in life. The challenge is not to make it an act. Knowing Jesus as the way, the truth and the life challenged me to discover which part of me was just an act. I had a problem with that for a while. Putting on the act appeared to have […]
Read More JJ 24 #26: The Real DealWe got to know each other when we studied together long ago. She lost a loved one and thought about contacting me to share the news. Although we were not as close as we had been during the studies, we kept in touch. To get the call and spend time with her, just hearing her […]
Read More JJ 24 #25: Who Your Real Friend Is
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