You Can't Fulfill All The Expectations Of

At School I Pretended I Had A Normal Life, But I Felt Lonely All The Time And Different From Everyone Else. I Never Felt Like I Fit In, And I Wasn't Allowed To Participate In After-school Activities, Go To Sports Events Or Parties Or Date Boys. Many Times I Had To Make Up Stories About Why I Couldn't Do Anything With My Classmates.

There's A Deceptive Sin That Can Keep Us From Walking In Love: Pride. It's Deceptive Because When You Have Pride, You're Usually Too Proud To Admit It. I Know This Because I Used To Have Teachings On Pride And They Didn't Sell Well.

We Are To Enjoy What We Have While We Have It, But We Are Never To Get To The Point Where We Think We Could Not Love Without It.

We Can Never Make Ourselves Better By Trying... Praying More Or Longer, Studying More Of The Word, Performing Good Works, Etc. Don't Get Me Wrong... It's Not Bad To Do Any Of These Things. In Fact, It's Good. It's Just That Doing Them In God's Power Is The Only Way Those Things Will Have Any Real And Lasting Effect In Our Lives.

Excellence Is Going The Extra Mile.