Tag Archive for: identity

How Talia’s Disabled Daughter Taught Her about the Love of God

By: Stephen McAlpine

I have devoted this guest post to a friend of mine, Talia. I have not read anything as moving, as heartbreaking, or as soul-enriching this year. Read more

Here’s Why You’re Qualified To Do Great Things

By: Dr Eliezer Gonzalez

We live in a world where you are limited by your qualifications. That’s one of the reasons why your parents probably told you to finish school. Read more

What Are You Worth?

By: Danni Synot

I don’t know about you, but I love a good milkshake. Anything from plain vanilla, strawberry or chocolate, to a berry milkshake with all the lashings of cream, ice cream, and butterscotch brittle. Read more

The Words We Receive

By: Susan Browning

There’s a dialogue in my mind, a culmination of words I’ve heard over the years said about me, spoken to me and the conversation I have with myself. The minor declarations in the hurt of a moment when repeated create the pathway to edify our inability and lack of self worth. Read more

In This Rare Moment, the Whole World is Living the Same Story

By: Sheridan Voysey

Sometimes I’m surprised at what I get nostalgic about. Recently I was reminiscing about the way in-flight entertainment used to be done on planes. Read more

Feeling Anxious About ‘You’? Why Modern Identity Can Be Crushing

By: Akos Balogh

Have you ever felt others were better than you? That they were more accomplished, better looking? Did this ever pressure you to be a better ‘you’? Read more

Priscilla Shirer on Finding True Identity, and Her Latest Screen Role in ‘Overcomer’

By: Laura Bennett

What makes you, you? Is your significance tied up in your profession, your online following, or your family background? What happens when those things come undone?
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Babe. What a Pig Taught Me about the Secret to Success

By: Sam Chan

The movie Babe (1995) will soon turn 25. I can’t believe it’s gone so quickly. What a story. Babe is a pig. But Babe wants to be a sheepdog. And who are we to stop him? Read more

The Identity Struggle – How to Be Known Fully

By: Susan Browning

So I did this clean out of our garage and stumbled across a familiar storage box. Filled to the brim with books. Not ordinary books though, the kind overflowing the ink of heart ache spilt onto the pages. The kind where identity leaks out, is refined and then found. The kind where strengthening joy seeds are sown in the secret place. It was a box of all my journals right back to the very first one. Read more

The Beauty of Broken Women

By: Susan Sohn

Are broken women the new black? Have the tables finally turned on the demands of perfectionism for women? After all, isn’t perfectionism the thin veil we hide behind that keeps us safe from people seeing the real us? Read more