Young people cracking the code On Wednesday, we drove around Buka Island to the village of Kesa where the YWAM (youth with a mission) medical ship, Liberty, was anchored. I saw something there that absolutely filled my heart with joy. I saw a bunch of young people (18 to mid-twenties) and some older people too […]
Ideal and real
Ideal and Real We create a lot of suffering when we confuse real with ideal. In an ideal world, we would be 100% on the same page with our significant other. In an ideal world, our business partner wouldn’t be in competition with us. In an ideal world, we would have great support and approval […]
Love your neighbor
Falling on your own sword
“We Need to Talk”
“We need to talk” When we feel the need to point out something to someone, we can have one of two orientations. We can come from love ~ wanting the best for that person, wanting to uplift, wanting to bless the other person’s life. Or we can come from not-love ~ irritation, annoyance, disappointment, frustration, […]
Deep peace and surface storms
This too shall pass
You don’t know who you are
You don’t know who you are Most people do not know who they are. When we know (not conceptually or intellectually but whole heartedly) who we are we have peace, trust, joy, worthiness, belonging, love in our hearts . . . Instead, people have believed lies about who they are – lies of insufficiency, unworthiness, […]
A useful thing to remember
A useful thing to remember A useful thing for us to remember when we think poorly of someone because they look different, think different, behave different etc. is that God loves that person just as much as God loves me. Much Love, Jonathan I write these Daily Doses because I know that my content does […]