“I didn’t know that I could balance the conscientiousness they taught with honoring my wants and needs, so I often orbited my desires around the comfort of others. And then when I was alone, I didn’t know my own voice.”
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“Everything I was doing was to make my job more sustainable for me, but all it did was make the (what I now know was) inevitable end less jarring.”
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“I’m trying to be honest with myself (and you, Reader) about this and frankly, it’s uncomfortable. I don’t like writing about him because I want to avoid honesty.”
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“I’d been ignoring my small harshness towards God so much that I was sacrificing our big relationship on an altar of comfort-motivated avoidance, shallow legalism, and pride.”
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“What’s going to be a game-changer for you this year? There are endless possibilities - spiritual growth, career development, emotional wholeness, investing in your relationships better.”
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“It’s easier said than done, but I’m definitely over the self-condemnation. I much prefer holy conviction.”
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“To try to make another adult feel an emotion is to claim an arrogant amount of authority over their well-being and to discredit their own God-given abilities of control over their reactions.”
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“But you see, Comfort can also be stubborn. Its boundaries are rigid walls, and it stretches about as much as metal in winter. Comfort doesn’t like change or embarking on new territory, and it’s possessive.”
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“When you decide to face it though, healing is a force that brings out ugliness. You will feel your anger, your rage in its rawest form.”
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“God can fit everyone’s problems in the history and future of this world in the palm of His hand. This isn’t an easy task for Him though because, in order for things to be easy, something would have to also be difficult.”
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“I found familiarity and comfort in a previously played out disaster scenario. They come back when needed until eventually they’re played out and another takes its place. Gotta keep the disaster scenarios fresh.”
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