Posted on August 11, 2025
by Jeff Herringshaw
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I like to feel good. It’s a basic urge within me to chase happiness wherever I think it can be found. My country’s Declaration of Independence affirms the pursuit of it to be an inalienable right. When I imagine myself in a happy state,… Continue Reading “Choosing Something Other than Happiness”
Category: Daily ChoicesTags: Changed Perspective, Comfort, Comfortable, Cry, Delight, Delighted, Enjoy, Excited, Faith, Fruit of the Spirit, God, God's Presence, Grief, Happiness, Happy, Holy Spirit, Hope, Jesus, Joy, love, Miserable, Misery, Mourn, My Life Sucks, New Perspective, Out of Control, Peace, Perspective, Pleasurable, Pleasure, Rejoice, Relationships, Sad, Sadness, Suffer, Suffering, The Cross, Uncomfortable, Weep, Weeping
Posted on February 19, 2024
by Jeff Herringshaw
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As a child, I remember when my Sunday school knowledge about God and the Bible became dull and simple. I was a jaded 12-year-old, having grown up saturated with what felt like dry, moralistic lessons drawn from the pages of scripture. The words faith,… Continue Reading “Choosing to “Know” Less”
Category: Daily ChoicesTags: Beginnings, Believe, boredom, Childlike, Childlikeness, Children, Discipleship, Enjoy, Faith, Faith Fundamentals, Faith Hope Love, forgive, Godliness, Growing with God, Hope, Humility, Intimacy with Jesus, Kingdom of God, Kingdom of Heaven, Knowledge, Learn, Like a Child, love, Maturity, Respond to love, Simple, Sunday school, The Basics, Trust, Wisdom