by skimhenson | Oct 11, 2021 | Happy To Be Me, On The Other Side of Trying Hard
“God can’t give us peace and happiness apart from Himself because there is no such thing.” C.S. Lewis I had to laugh when Prophet Jim Reilly told a friend that even though he had it all, he continued to be “grumpy” until he got ahold of God. In 12-step programs,...
by skimhenson | Oct 7, 2021 | Happy To Be Me, On The Other Side of Trying Hard
“Believe in yourself. Have faith in your abilities. Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers, you cannot be successful or happy.” Norman Vincent Peale Peale’s quote and others like it sounded foreign to me and still do some days. I read his...
by skimhenson | Oct 6, 2021 | Happiness and Suffering, On The Other Side of Trying Hard
“Job found his legacy through the grief he experienced.” Streams In The Desert by L. B. Cowman, p. 344 “If Joseph had never been Egypt’s prisoner, he would have never been Egypt’s governor. The iron chain that bound his feet brought about the golden chain...
by skimhenson | Oct 5, 2021 | Happiness and Suffering, On The Other Side of Trying Hard
“We change our behavior when the pain of staying the same becomes greater than the pain of changing.” Dr. Henry Cloud and Dr. John Townsend, authors of Boundaries: When to Say Yes, How to Say No to Take Control of Your Life One of the absurdities of life is our...
by skimhenson | Oct 4, 2021 | Happiness and Suffering, On The Other Side of Trying Hard
“We must all suffer one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The difference is discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tons.” Jim Rohn I read the above quote years ago about choice, but had no idea what it meant to be disciplined or...
by skimhenson | Sep 30, 2021 | Happiness and Suffering, On The Other Side of Trying Hard
“There are many blessings we will never receive until we are ready to pay the price of pain, for the path of suffering is the only way to reach them.” J. R. Miller It’s easier to accept and suffer through pain since knowing it’s meaningful. It’s not random, but for a...