I loved to do pencil drawings when I was a kid. I received so much affirmation from my sketches that I decided at an early age that I should learn to paint and become a professional artist. But the problem was that for every… Continue Reading “Choosing the Process Over the Product”
Category: Daily ChoicesTags: Avoidance, bad choices, Complete, Correct, Do it right, Driven, Failure, Failure is unacceptable, Faith, fear, Fear of Failure, Fear of making mistakes, Feeling insecure, Flatland, Get it done, Give Up, Giving Up, good choices, Heart Transformation, Hope, I cannot fail, impossible standards, Insecure, Insecurities, Intimacy with God, Intimacy with Jesus, love, Mature, Maturity, Mistakes, Outside the Box, Pefection, Perfect, Perfect Person, Perfectionism, Perfectionistic, Personal Value, Quit, Quitter, Relationship with God, Right or Wrong, Self condemnation, Self condemning, Self Doubt, Spiritual Maturity, The correct way, The Wrong Way, Transformation, Unrealistic, Unrealistic expectations, Value
I recently had someone describe her problems to me as rooted in co-dependency. She could see that her choices had become so enmeshed with another person’s responses that she no longer knew what was hers and what was the other person’s. The solution she… Continue Reading “Choosing to Limit Myself”
Category: Daily ChoicesTags: 10 Commandments, Boundaries, Boundary, Boundary Problem, Care, Channel, Co-dependency, Command, Commandment, Direct, Directions, Fence, Fences, freedom, Guide, Healthy Boundaries, Help, Identity, Intimacy with God, Intimacy with Jesus, Just say No, Laws, Life, Limts, love, Restrictions, Rules, Safety, Say no, Thrive, Thriving, True Freedom, Walls
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”
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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
In the movies it always looked so easy and nonconsequential. As a kid, I watched shows where chairs got busted over heads in barroom fights with the recipient merely staggering a few paces before flinging his opponent through a wooden railing. And then there… Continue Reading “Choosing to Open the Door”
Category: Daily ChoicesTags: choices, Door of My Heart, Intimacy with God, Intimacy with Jesus, Invitation, Inviting Jesus In, Jesus Knocking, Jesus the Gentleman, Knocking on the Door, Letting Jesus in, My Choice
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