A simple friend, when visiting, acts like a guest. A real friend opens your refrigerator and helps himself (and doesn’t feel even the least bit weird shutting your ‘beer/Pepsi drawer’ with his foot!) A simple friend has never seen you cry. A real friend has shoulders soggy from your tears.. A simple friend doesn’t know … Read more
1. They consistently seem angry and bitter and worried. I thought Christians were supposed to reflect joy and kindness and peace. 2. They don’t dream big dreams. That seems odd given the fact that we’re supposedly worshiping a God who is “able to accomplish infinitely more than we would ever dare ask or hope.” 3. … Read more
Do you know the legend of the Cherokee Indian youth’s rite of passage? His dad takes him into the forest, blindfolded …and leaves him….alone. He is required to sit on a stump the whole night…and not take off the blindfold until the ray of sun shines through it. He is all by himself. He cannot … Read more