Tenacity to Purpose

Definition of   shame (Merriam -Webster) 1 a :   a painful emotion caused by consciousness of guilt, shortcoming, or impropriety b :   the susceptibility to such emotion   2 :   a condition of humiliating disgrace or disrepute   3 a :   something that brings censure or reproach;   also :  something to be regretted :  a cause of feeling shame Definition of   guilt 2a   :   the state of one who has committed an offense especially consciously b   :   feelings of deserving blame especially for imagined offenses or from a sense of inadequacy   :     self-reproach 3 :   a feeling of deserving blame for offenses   Wracked by   guilt, he confessed his affairs. Have you ever been in a situation where you stuck to your guns, and things just fell apart? Have you ever been in a situation where you were determined to stick to your morals and values, and everybody around you...

She gave her body to him. She had come to trust him. He had been attentive and has persevered for three months now. I mean, he showed up late a couple of times, but he made up for it eventually. She let him into her secret place. A place that no man had ever been. It’s not that others hadn’t tried. But he was different from them, well at least until that day. That day she fell onto the bathroom floor like spilled water. Because just like water her emotions were all over the place and she couldn’t keep it in. The test had two lines, there was no doubt about it. She just had to tell him, he would make her feel better. “How can I be sure that it’s my baby?” Each word that came out of his mouth was like a dagger, and her heart was the target. See, the thing about pregnancy is that only one person can run away from it. Because even when an abortion is performed, her womb will forever have a tombstone. And every time she lays down her head to sleep at night she weeps bec...

We are called to run a race and every person has their individual track but you won't get motivated to run your own race if you don't know what you're running towards and what the prize is. We're running this race. But no one is on the tracks, because living someone else's life seems more exciting than our own. Most people are wearing the wrong participant number. We are running in all directions and the official is left with nobody to crown as winner. The problem is that we are afraid to use what we have. We are afraid to fail, but you have to understand that even the great failed once or twice. We are so afraid of hitting rock bottom, so we don't try at all but there's something waiting for you at rock bottom that's going to help you get to the top. Purposelessness (yes, I just created a new word) is something that a lot of young people struggle with. Either they don't know what their talents are, or they don't know how to use them. Her...

Albert Bandura believed that one way in which we learn is by observing. He believed that children learn how to do a lot of things by observing the adults around them and doing what they do, in the way that they do it. The reality is that some adults will tell a child to do as they say and not as they do. The truth is that we have not seen vulnnerability being modelled. In our households we have not seen our fathers being vulnerable with us or our mothers.  Our mothers are our pillars of strength and our protectors.  We only get to see their vulnerability when we're older. In church it is rare to see people in leadearship positions being vulnerable. Instead we are encouraged to be open about our lives; but how are you going to open up to people you don't trust and people you can't see as being human just like you? As humans we tend to want to experience other people's vulnerability  but we don't want to be vulnerable. And some might argue that trust needs to be e...