Tidbits are musing on what I am learning. For example, today, I asked myself if I really knew how to praise my Lord.

I ask myself the question, and you, what does it mean to be like Jesus? How will I know when I am like Jesus? How will you know when I am like Jesus?

Even though pain is a reality for the majority of people, we seem to have a natural commitment to camouflage to others and to ourselves what is really going on inside of us.

Christ doesn’t offer us a magic potion to alleviate our pain or hurts. What He does offer us is Himself. All He asks of us is our loneliness, our emptiness and our sin, nothing more and nothing less. He asks us to give up our idea of who we are and trust Him with our hearts. He wants us to have a heart that can relax in His peace and be satisfied there.

We must do more than say “I was hurt” or “I was abused” if we are really going to see change in our lives and in our relationships. We need to stop covering our wounds with Band-Aids believing that if no one can see it then they will go away. We must have the courage to look at the wound and to see how the infection of our soul wound is robbing us of all that we long for. Until we are willing to take the risk to look deep, there will be no healing.

Living is not a spectator sport. It is not our place to sit in the stands, protecting ourselves, and watching the action from a distance. Being born, existing, means being a participant in the game of life. It is getting dirty and getting out in life where the opposition is powerful and difficult at times. Winning at life only comes from a fierce determination to jump in with both feet and to give every ounce of energy towards the goal of living abundantly.

Knowing is the secret ingredient for change from within – hence the title of my podcast.