We are not defending a national championship. The word ‘defending’ implies that we will be back on our heels protecting something. No way, guys. We cannot win another national championship on our reputation. We have to go out and earn everything we get. We are not defending anything. We are pursuing a national championship. Pursuing!

How you “show up” is important, maybe even determinative, of your career trajectory, how much power and status others accord you, and whether you keep your job.

Poverty, I realized, wasn’t only a lack of financial resources; it was isolation from the kind of people who could help you make more of yourself.

Every goal has to be worthy of the team’s commitment.

Control your perceptions. Direct your actions properly. Willingly accept what’s outside your control.

In the biblical gospel we are not given a thing; we are given a person.

At that point, Tim and I were both submitting to roles that we were not perfectly comfortable with, but it is clear that God worked in us and through us when we accepted our gender roles as a gift from the designer of our hearts.

Psychoeducation is essential to lower the cognitive dissonance so common in narcissistic abuse survivors.

Practice the 'Empty Boat' Mindset.

We are alive in the natural world, and we use science to understand that layer of aliveness. We are also alive in another dimension, the dimension of spirit and meaning. We use the biblical stories to understand that dimension of aliveness.