Tag: Happiness

Love Limits You

The Stunning Limits of Love

Daily Influences to Manage, Life Paths, Virtuous Actions

Most of us revel in having options. We coach our kids to keep their options open. But too many options is a recipe for anxiety. Think about buying a pair of jeans. Your choices include straight leg, skinny leg, athletic fit, slim fit, high rise, low rise, boot cut… Too many options and we are paralyzed in the face of what decision will be best. Too many options leads to feelings that we could have chosen better and so we are dissatisfied. Instead we need to seek for our lives to be limited by love. When we plug into Jesus we remove all the anxiety, dissatisfaction and paralysis. 

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Where do you place your heart? If it is in anything in this world you will end up in a bad spiritual place.

Warning! Failures, Loss, Sickness – Spotlight Where You Place Your Heart

Daily Influences to Manage, Life Paths, Social Media, Virtuous Actions

Where do you place the allegiance of your heart?  Do our hearts belong to anything in this world? Not that anything in the world is bad.  But everything in this world will not last.

Failures will come. Loved ones will die. We will become sick. Our practical enterprises will end.  

Just like a healthy tree, we will be alright only if our roots extend to the source of life.

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When you reflect on your impending death, you prepare for it and appraise things at their true value

The Secret of Great Holiness – Reflect on on Death

Daily Influences to Manage, Great People Examples to Follow, Parables and Miracles, Virtuous Actions

From ancient times, Christians have been called to reflect on their impending death. First to bring an appreciation of the gift of life. But also to put our actions in proper perspective. When we die, we need to be able to answer for our lives.

Do we strive every day to achieve happiness based on worldly items. Whether it be education, wealth, pleasures – they are all unsatisfying. Actor Jim Carrey once said, “I wish everyone could get rich and famous and do everything they ever dreamed of so that they can realize it will not make them happy.”

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