MIDWEEK REFLECTIONS

The zeitgeist—spirit of the age—is to do everything within your ability to make yourself more like someone else. But this mentality says, My ideal version of myself is better than what God created.

If you spend most of your time around the same people, then you will start to become like them in a few—or many—ways.

Sometimes the pain is unrelenting. You are adrift at sea and the storm rolls in. You fight to keep from drowning in the sea below, and the skies above threaten to fill your lungs with the torrential rain. But press on. Rescue is coming.