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

It has nothing to do with who I am as compared to everyone else. It has everything to do with who I am in companionship with God.

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.

Oh yes, I am frequently driven to an enraged frenzy by the blatantly crass actions of others. But to be painfully honest, that anger is much less driven by the reality of their actions and far more fueled by the realization that everything I am is everything that I hate in them.

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

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.