Heart-Based Practical Living

Did you know you don’t have to take advice from everybody who sets themselves up as an authority for your life? The reality is that excellent advice that hugely helps one type of person can utterly devastate another type of person if they persist in trying to make it work for them. But it’s hard to stand your ground in the face of someone else’s certainty on your behalf.

Understanding that our feelings of the moment do not necessarily represent truth for our lives allows us to better navigate our emotional responses. That surge of energy we might feel in a new project or relationship is not a herald of it’s rightness in our lives. And feelings of bottomed-out discouragement are not a message from our hearts saying, “Bail because it’s all for naught.” But if the highly sensitive person distances from his or her emotions, this can deprive life of much beauty, depth, and meaning.

Have you ever heard that bizarre story about Jesus and the fig tree? If you don’t know the secrets of fig trees, there’s no way you can decipher the lesson in the story.

Hey Kiddo,
Lighten up! I’ve got it handled.

Even your failings and struggles. Yes, I know all about them and I’ve got you covered there, too. You can’t fret your way out of any of this, but you can lighten up and come play with me.
You know, you’re just a human for whom I have great [...]