Category: Daily Choices
Posted on May 23, 2022
by Jeff Herringshaw
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I despise fasting. I hate the way it makes me feel: grumpy, irritable, distracted with thoughts of burgers, pizza, and ice cream when I’m trying to do something important. But most of all, it makes me feel hungry. And hunger tells me I need… Continue Reading “Choosing the Way of Hunger”
Category: Daily ChoicesTags: Bread from Heaven, Bread of Life, Daily Bread, Eternal Life, Eternity, Fasting, Food, Going Without, Health, Healthy, Heavenly Food, Humbling My Body, Humbling Myself, Humility, Hunger, Hungry, Intermittent Fasting, Life, Manna, Nourishing, Nourishment, Regular Fasting, Spiritual Food, Spiritual Health, Spiritual Nourishment
Posted on May 16, 2022
by Jeff Herringshaw
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I was five years old when I had my tonsils removed. A lot of medical concerns and procedures were different back then. They had me spend the night before surgery in the hospital. I remember my initial impression was that of getting to do… Continue Reading “Choosing Well . . . in the Dark”
Category: Daily ChoicesTags: Alone, Artificial Light, Blind, Blindness, Comforter, Confused, Confusion, Control, Dark, Darkness, Fa;lse Light, God is Light, God's Voice, Light, Light in the Darkness, Loneliness, Night, Nighttime, Out of Control, Redeemer, Rescuer, Savior, Spiritual Blindness, Take God's Hand, Trust, Trusting in God, Trusting in Jesus, Voice of God
Posted on May 9, 2022
by Jeff Herringshaw
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Most people have done things they look back upon and view as a bit wacky. “What was I thinking?” Sometimes they were done for love. Sometimes they were done to relieve boredom. Sometimes they were done for the thrill and attention. And sometimes they… Continue Reading “Choosing to Live Sensibly”
Category: Daily ChoicesTags: Big Picture, choices, Commitment, Committed, Confidence, Counter Cultural, Courage, Craziness, Crazy, Eternal, Eternity, Faith, Faithful, Faithfulness, Follower of Jesus, Heavenly Values, Insane, Insanity, Jesus Followers, King Jesus, Kingdom of God, Loyal, Normal, Paul the Apostle, Radical, Saint Paul, Sanity, Trust, Trust in God, Trustful, Trustworthy, Worldly Values
Posted on May 2, 2022
by Jeff Herringshaw
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I always saw myself as a laid-back, easy-going person. That was until my first year of teaching remedial English to 8th graders in a California inner-city school. My carefully composed lesson plans were sabotaged daily by 13 and 14 year olds who derived perverse… Continue Reading “Choosing Patience”
Category: Daily ChoicesTags: Delayed Gratification, Despair, Destiny, Eternal Perspective, Eternity, Expectation, Expecting Good, Fruit of the Spirit, Future Good, Hope, Hopeful, Hopelessness, Hoping, Impatience, Instant Gratification, Long Suffering, Patience, Patient, Short-term Thinking, Wait, Waiting
Posted on April 25, 2022
by Jeff Herringshaw
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As a kid, I loved to do pencil drawings. I received so much affirmation from my sketches that I decided at a young age that I should learn to paint and become a professional artist when I grew up. But the problem was that… Continue Reading “Choosing God’s Way of Perfection”
Category: Daily ChoicesTags: Complete, Correctness, Failure, fear, Fear of Failure, Flatland, Fulfilled, God's Expectations, Heart Transformation, Intimacy with God, Intimacy with Jesus, Perfect, Perfection, Perfectionism, Perfectionist, Performance, Performance Orientation, Relationship with God, Relationship with Jesus, The Right Way, The Wrong Way
Posted on April 18, 2022
by Jeff Herringshaw
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During my senior year in high school, my football coach referred to me as a “great athlete.” I was shocked but ecstatic that he would say such a thing. That was NOT how I saw myself. I had had minimal interest in athletics most… Continue Reading “Choosing to Not Turn Myself into an Object”
Category: Daily ChoicesTags: Calling, Child of God, Children of God, daughter of God, family member, God's kid, Heavenly Father, Identity, Identity Confusion, Object, Objectification, Objectify, Purpose, Self Identity, Self Image, Self Understanding, Self Worth, son of God, Value, Who am I, Worth
Posted on April 11, 2022
by Jeff Herringshaw
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Grim news continues to come out of Ukraine. Mass graves are being discovered. And stories of torture and executions are multiplying. Not since World War 2 has Europe been the site of such atrocities. But now, with another apparently unhinged despot doubling down on… Continue Reading “Choosing to Hope in Resurrection”
Category: Daily ChoicesTags: Crucifixion, Death, Depression, Despair, Easter, Eternal Life, Eternity, fear, Fearfulness, Future Resurrection, He is Risen, Hope for the future, Hopeless, Hopelessness, imperishable body, Life, Living, Meaning of Easter, New Body, New Life, Raised from the dead, Resurrected, Resurrection Day, The Cross
Posted on April 4, 2022
by Jeff Herringshaw
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I just finished reading the novel Dune, by Frank Herbert. It had been on my to-read list since I first heard about it back in high school (a long time ago). Now, with the most recent rendering of the story on film in 2021,… Continue Reading “Choosing a Messiah”
Category: Daily ChoicesTags: Deliverer, Dune, Follower, Followers, Frank Herbert, Hero, Heroes, Hope, Leaders, Leadership, Messiah, Messianic Hope, Prophet Priest King, Rescuer, Savior
Posted on March 28, 2022
by Jeff Herringshaw
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Is “spring cleaning” a real thing? For some, this annual purging is what marks the official emergence from the dark survival mode of winter. It’s a time to step into the bright and hopeful newness of a fresh season. It’s a regenerated start, embracing… Continue Reading “Choosing to Declutter”
Category: Daily ChoicesTags: Anxiety, Anxious Thoughts, Bad Habits, Cleaning, Cleansing, Decluttering, fear, forgiveness, freedom, Grudges, Letting Go, Making Changes, New Habits, Old Habits, Releasing, Resentment, Rethinking, Self Evaluation, Spiritual Bath, Spring Cleaning, Unforgiveness, Washing
Posted on March 21, 2022
by Jeff Herringshaw
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It was a cold night in late October when I saw Saint Basil’s Cathedral in Moscow, Russia with my own eyes. I was carrying my one-year-old son, and my wife had the hands of our other two small children as we hurried across Red… Continue Reading “Choosing Redemption for My Imagination”
Category: Daily ChoicesTags: Anxiety, Belief, Believe, Create, Creative, Creativity, Dark Thoughts, Evil Thoughts, Faith, Hope, Hopeful, Imagination, Imagine, lust, Mind, Pride, Redeem, Redeeming, Redemption, Seeing, Seen, The Mind, unseen, Visualization, Visualize
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