Posted on December 12, 2022
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I was in the third grade when I painfully discovered something about myself. A teacher was giving a math lesson on the multiplication table using a chart with colored geometric shapes. She asked for a volunteer to provide the answer to 3X3, referring to… Continue Reading “Choosing to Call Out Courage in Another”
Category: Daily ChoicesTags: Affirm, Affirmation, Compassion, Correct, Correcting Others, Courage, Destiny, Do the right thing, Encourage, Encouragement, Encouraging, Gideon, Give, Give Strength, Give Support, Help, Help Out, Hero, Identity, love, Mighty Hero, No Condemnation, Strength, Strengthen, Strengthen another, Support, Telling the Truth, True Identity, Truth, Truth Teller
Posted on November 7, 2022
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As far back as I can remember, I have largely interpreted life, my value, and my impressions of those around me through the words I hear. What I have taken in through my ears has lodged deep into my soul. Countless words have cut… Continue Reading “Choosing the Right Words”
Category: Daily ChoicesTags: Accusations, Accusing, Arrogant, Believing the best, Calling, Complaining, Cutting Words, Deadly, Death and Life, Destiny, Destruction, Destructive, Encourage, Encouragement, Encouraging, Gossip, grateful, Grumbling, Hate, Hate Speech, Hope, Humble words, Hurtful, Identity, Intention of the Heart, Kind, Kind Words, Kindness, Life-giving, love, Mean, Mean Spirited, Motives, Pride, Proudful, Sarcasm, Sarcastic, Speech, Thankful, The Heart, The Lips, The Mouth, The Tongue, Words, Wounding Words
Posted on September 26, 2022
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No matter how hard I try, why are some things so difficult to resist? Overeating? Harsh responses to those who correct me? Anxiety about the future? I know how I should respond, what I’m supposed to do, and what I ought to feel. But… Continue Reading “Choosing to Remember Who I Am”
Category: Daily ChoicesTags: Allegiance to Jesus, Core Identity, Identity, Identity in Christ, Know Myself, Know Thyself, Know Yourself, Lies I Believe, Primary Identity, Self Identity, Temptation, Temptations of Christ, Tempted, The Imitation of Christ, Thomas á Kempis, Victory Over Temptation, Who am I?
Posted on June 6, 2022
by Jeff Herringshaw
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I am a recovering English teacher. It’s been many years since I stood in front of a class of middle-schoolers and attempted to convey the beauty of past participles, gerunds and the joy of diagraming a sentence. The response was almost always less than… Continue Reading “Choosing What’s IN”
Category: Daily ChoicesTags: Christ in me, Connecting with God, God in me, Holy Bible, Holy Scriptures, Identity, In Christ, In God, Knowing God, Listening to God, New Testament, Prepositions, Reading the Bible, Reading the Word, The Bible, The Word of God
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 July 19, 2021
by Jeff Herringshaw
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No matter how hard I try, why are some things so difficult to resist? Overeating? Harsh responses to those who correct me? Anxiety about the future? I know how I should respond, what I’m supposed to do, and what I ought to feel. But… Continue Reading “Choosing to Take Temptation Seriously”
Category: Daily ChoicesTags: Adopted, Adoption, Allegiance, Child of God, Children of God, Core Identity, daughter of God, Identity, Identity Tag, No longer orphans, Purpose, resisting, Resisting Temptation, son of God, Temptation, Temptation of Jesus, Tempted, Thomas á Kempis, View of Myself, Weakness
Posted on August 31, 2020
by Jeff Herringshaw
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I have done it more often than I can count. Setting my house, my car, my education, my career, my life next to a neighbor’s, a friend’s or even an enemy’s. I then feel the discomfort when they don’t match. Occasionally I feel better… Continue Reading “Choosing to Not Compare”