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Grief, Loss, and Loving your Neighbor
Grief and Loving Your Neighbor When it comes to grief and loving your neighbor, we have to be honest with ourselves. Most of the time, when we lose someone we love, our grief feels deeply personal. We are sad because we lost them. We miss their presence, their voice, their laughter, their comfort. Many of… Read more
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The importance of Community
There are few gifts greater than community when it comes to living out love for God, love for yourself, and love for your neighbor. Isolation has its place. It is necessary. It is sacred. It is where we confront ourselves, refine ourselves, and build strength. But isolation is preparation, not the destination. Community is where… Read more
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Boundaries: Saying No and Choosing Solitude
Although I have touched on boundaries before, two expressions of boundaries deserve deeper attention: the courage to say no and the discipline of solitude. Both are essential to self-love, and both are necessary if we are to love our neighbors well. It is important to say no to others in order to say yes to… Read more
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Anger and Emotional Regulation
You speak about healing. You speak about love. But if we are honest, any serious conversation about loving our neighbor must include a conversation about anger. Loving your neighbor requires learning how to feel anger without allowing it to become harm. For much of my life, I carried anger. I wore it like armor. Looking… Read more
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Self-Improvement Is the Highest Form of Self-Love
How to Love Yourself in Order to Love Thy Neighbor We all want to love well. We want to love God with sincerity.We want to love our neighbor with integrity.We want to be patient, kind, forgiving, steady. Yet many of us struggle to do consistently for others what we have never learned to do for… Read more
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Creating a Bulletproof Life
Becoming Resistant Ultimately, we want to be bulletproof. We want strength. Resilience. Confidence. Certainty. We want to walk through life untouched by its chaos. But the truth is, there is no such thing as bulletproof. What we can build is resistance. Strength does not appear on its own. It is trained. It is practiced daily.… Read more
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