Accepting the fact that I don’t even remotely understand all that I can be might prove an insurmountable barrier to some. Yet, if I can accept that fact, the far greater barrier constructed of my suffocatingly limited understanding of myself would be removed. And without a doubt, the former might be difficult to deal with but the latter is certain to kill me.

To save myself I must face myself, which may be the hardest of all things to face.

If I so much as dare to intimately probe the reflection I see in the mirror, I am filled with the tormenting fear that I might be repulsed. God invites us to boldly probe the reflection in the mirror so that we might be released.

We all have some belief that drives our decisions. But have we really ever been driven to understand what that belief is so that we understand what our decisions are?

We must clean the lens of our hearts to see the state of our souls. However, too often the former is too dirty to even know that the latter exists.

To attempt to know myself ‘apart’ from God is to choose to know nothing more than ‘a part’ of myself.

In evaluating ourselves, we tend to be long on our weaknesses and short on our strengths.

I spent a lifetime in a garden one afternoon.

We might do well to take a look at what we’ve crammed into our pockets as it will say much about what we’ve crammed into our hearts.