Posted on July 21, 2025
by Jeff Herringshaw
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I first smoked a cigar in college. Somehow, I had managed to avoid all tobacco before that. When I joined several other film students in a project to tell a story set during a poker game, we decided our set needed to be filled… Continue Reading “Choosing What I REALLY Want”
Category: Daily ChoicesTags: Accepted, Accomplish, Accomplishments, Appetites, Attracted, Attractive, Christ, Christian, Complete, Completed, Confident, Delight, Desire, desires, Embraced, enamored, Faith, Fill me, Fill me up, Filled, Focus, Fulfilled, Fulfillment, Give it to me, Give me, God, Hope, Hunger, I need, I want, Image, Jesus, Joy, Longing, love, Loved, lust, Needs, Peace, Real Desire, Received, Satisfied, Satsifaction, Seek, Seeking, Thirst, Thought Life, Unshakable, Want, Wants
As a Follower of Jesus, is it wrong to ask God to fulfill my desires? I have been asked this question more than once. There are two extreme responses that are often associated with Christianity. One comes out of the God-wants-you-to-be-happy theology and therefore,… Continue Reading “Choosing Lasting Satisfaction”
Category: Daily ChoicesTags: Contented, Contentment, Core Desires, Deceitful Desires, Desire, desires, Disappointment, Dissatisfaction, Dissatisfied, Empty, evil desires, Faith, Fraudulent Desires, Fulfilled, Fulfilled Desires, Fulfillment, Give it to me, Give it to me now, God-given desires, godly desires, Happiness, Hope, I want, I want it, Joy, Longing, love, make me happy, Passion, Passionate, Peace, Real Life, Satisfaction, Satisfied, Surface Desires, Unfulfilled desires
I first smoked a cigar in college. Somehow I had managed to avoid all tobacco before that. When I joined several other film students in a project to tell a story set during a poker game, we decided our set needed to be filled… Continue Reading “Choosing the Deeper Desire”
Category: Daily ChoicesTags: Core Desire, Core Longings, Desire, desires, Desires of the heart, Distracting Desire, Earthly Desires, Fleshly Desires, Heavenly Desires, Longing, Physical Desires, Real Desire, Real Satisfaction, Satisfaction, Satisfaction of the soul, Satisfied, Seeking, Seeking what's above, Soul, The Heart, True Desires, True Satisfaction
Posted on October 4, 2021
by Jeff Herringshaw
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I first smoked a cigar in college. Somehow I had managed to avoid all tobacco before that. When I joined several other film students in a project to tell a story set during a poker game, we decided our set needed to be filled… Continue Reading “Choosing Things Above”
Category: Daily ChoicesTags: Comfort, Comforter, Core Desire, Deepest Desires, Desire, desires, Earthly Things, Fulfillment, Heavenly Things, Joy, Living Water, Longing, Longings, love, Peace, Satisfaction, Satisfied, Seek, Seeking, Significance, Yearning