Posted on September 29, 2025
by Jeff Herringshaw
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There’s something gratifying about finding a way to make a long journey shorter. I look to my GPS for help these days. But even as a kid, I was always looking for a short cut. When I was 12, my friends showed me a… Continue Reading “Choosing to Go Slow”
Category: Daily ChoicesTags: All in good time, Big Picture, Christ Follower, Christian, desires, Dreams, Faith, Fast, Faster, Go slow, God, Good Life, Hope, Jesus, Jesus Christ, Jesus Follower, Joy, Life, Long Suffering, love, Patience, Peace, Perseverance, Short cuts, Short-term Thinking, Slow down, Temptation, the easy way, The Long Way, Treasure, Trust God, Wait, Wait on the Lord, Wisdom, Wise, Wise choices, worth the wait
I always saw myself as a laid-back, easy-going person. That was until my first year of teaching remedial English to 8th graders in a California inner-city school. My carefully composed lesson plans were sabotaged daily by 13 and 14 year olds who derived perverse… Continue Reading “Choosing to Step Back and Wait”
Category: Daily ChoicesTags: Calmness, Composure, Cool, Endurance, Endure, Faith, Forbearance, Fortitude, Fruit of the Spirit, Grit, Hope, Jesus, Long Suffering, love, Patience, Patient, Peace, Renewal, Renewed Strength, Restraint, Serenity, Stoic, Stoicism, Suffer, Tolerance, Toleration, Wait, Wait on the Lord
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