Tag: Humility
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 January 10, 2022
by Jeff Herringshaw
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It’s a nameless, forgotten movie from my childhood. But one scene has remained etched in my mind for decades. Perhaps it’s a composite of multiple movies. An individual, walking through a trackless jungle, steps into quicksand. He tries to work his way out, but… Continue Reading “Choosing the Help That’s Offered”
Category: Daily ChoicesTags: Assistance, Coach, Coaching, Comfort, Despair, Freed, freedom, Guidance, Help, Help me, Humility, Life-giving, Lifeline, love, Need, Needs, Obstacles, Path, Pathway, Powerless, Quicksand, Relief, Rescue, Salvation, Savior, Sinking, Stuck, Trap, Trapped, Truth, Unstuck
Posted on January 3, 2022
by Jeff Herringshaw
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The new year is upon us, and that means resolutions! Many of us are making promises to ourselves to initiate changes in our lives. I have heard mixed reviews regarding the effectiveness of such commitments. The vast majority of us give up on the… Continue Reading “Choosing to Leave the Past Behind”
Category: Daily ChoicesTags: Accusations, Confession, Effective Resolutions, False Guilt, forgive, forgiveness, freedom, guilt, Happy New Year, Humility, Leprosy, New Year Resolution, Pride, Release, Repent, Repentance, Resolutions, sin, Success, Unbelief
Posted on December 27, 2021
by Jeff Herringshaw
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A chance for new beginnings and making life improvements. A clean slate to start over. That’s what so many of us long for and what the new year seems to offer. The tradition of making New Year’s resolutions has been popular for quite a… Continue Reading “Choosing to Move Forward”
Category: Daily ChoicesTags: Accountability, Change, freedom, Getting Unstuck, Goals, Good Habits, Growth, Habits, Happy New Year, Humility, Improvement, Keeping Promises, Life Changes, Life Coach, Life Coaching, Making Changes, Moving Forward, Need help, New Beginning, New Habits, New Year Resolution, Resolution, SMART goals, Unstuck
Posted on December 20, 2021
by Jeff Herringshaw
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Speculations on the beginning of the universe fascinate me. There is, of course, the Big Bang Theory (not the television show). It is the most commonly known hypothesis, proposing that all existing matter was at one time compressed into a tiny, infinitely dense speck… Continue Reading “Christmas: Choosing Small Beginnings”
Category: Daily ChoicesTags: Babies, Baby Jesus, Big Bang, Big Bang Theory, Christ Child, Christmas, Creation, Humility, Incarnation, Joy to the World, Little, love, Manger, Meekness, Nativity, Singularity, Small, Small Beginnings, Small Packages, Stable, Universe, Value System
Posted on December 13, 2021
by Jeff Herringshaw
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When I realized what was next to me, I flattened myself against the side of the house in shock. I kept telling myself that this couldn’t be real. Things like this don’t happen here. My cousin and I had started a window-washing service as… Continue Reading “Choosing to Open My Eyes”
Category: Daily ChoicesTags: Alligators, Belief, Blind, Deceit, Deceived, Deception, Eyes, Humility, Insight, Light, Pride, Sadducees, Seeing, Sight, Spiritual Blindness, Truth, Understanding
Posted on November 8, 2021
by Jeff Herringshaw
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It’s a simple but often maligned and misunderstood word. To be considered humble is a compliment for some and an insult for others. It’s frequently associated with being soft spoken, self-deprecating, and wallowing in low self-esteem. While most people consider it a virtue of… Continue Reading “Choosing Humility”
Category: Daily ChoicesTags: Contrite Heart, Emptied, Empty, Empty Myself, Exalt, Exalted, Full of Myself, Humble, Humiliate, Humiliation, Humility, Meek, Pride, Proud, Self Exaltation, Surrender, Surrendered
Posted on August 2, 2021
by Jeff Herringshaw
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Some stories in the Bible have struck me as unfair, and at times I have found myself sympathizing with the “bad guy.” Take for example the parable of the three servants who received money from their master to invest while he was gone (Matthew… Continue Reading “Choosing Real Worship”
Category: Daily ChoicesTags: Acceptable Worship, Cain and Abel, Gifts, Humility, No Pretending, Offering, Open Heart, Real Worship, Sacrifice, Sincere Worship, Soft Heart, Tender Heart, True Worship, Vulnerability, Worship, Worship in Spirit and Truth, Worshiping
Posted on March 22, 2021
by Jeff Herringshaw
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All through my early years I saw myself as a humble man. The fallacy of that image was exposed the day I was informed that the one-on-one, who I understood would be my “mentor” in the YWAM training program was a single, 19-year-old kid.… Continue Reading “Choosing to Be Taught”
Category: Daily ChoicesTags: Arrogance, Arrogant, Childlike, Humble, Humility, Instruction, Learn, Learner, Pride, Proud, Teachable
Posted on March 8, 2021
by Jeff Herringshaw
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I have worked with some people over the years with serious pride issues. Surely you know the type I’m talking about. They see and hear only what they want and leave room for little to no outside input into their work, their projects, their… Continue Reading “Choosing to Humble My Pride”
Category: Daily ChoicesTags: 7-Deadly Sin, Arrogance, Blindness, Humility, Original Sin, Pride, Right View of Myself, Seeing Myself, Self-Esteem, Self-Image, sin, Spiritual Blindness