During the spring of my junior year in high school, some girls suggested we practice for the junior-senior basketball game, and I thought it might be fun, so I tagged along. I did poorly in practice, more focused on my friends than on the game; but despite getting on the…
Those who have learned to live in the realm of My Spirit are happy and fulfilled because they have a deep understanding of My love. They don’t question My love for them, for they have experienced the height and breadth and depth of it. They have great peace and great…
What can you realistically expect to be or accomplish?That depends in part on how you define “realistic.” Nobody knows what we’re capable of better than God, and often His definition of “realistic” is “potential.” He knows our limits—“He knows our frame; He remembers that we are dust”1—but He also sees…
To one degree or another, just about all of us are unsatisfied with ourselves—but that’s not necessarily a bad thing. A certain amount of dissatisfaction is necessary if we’re going to keep making progress. To become all that we can be, we must dream of being more than we are.…
You are part of a magnificent, vast, overall plan. You can’t see that plan, but I can. You can’t see how beautifully you fit in with the overall panorama of life and the balance of the universe, but I can. Someday you will see it too, and you will marvel…