Having an Uncommon Home, Education, and Personal Life
What it Means to Be No longer Common? Part 6 You Are A Gift to All Creation You must learn to be you. For almost 20 years, I tried to be someone else, my mentor, Pastor George Matthews and you know what, I thought I had it down pat. I was …
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What it Means to Be No longer Common? Part 5 Ordinary was Never Enough to Begin With Coming up with a website tagline or subtitle for a book can be quite challenging. After several drafts and options, you end up selecting the one that seems best for the project. But …
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What it Means to Be No longer Common? Part 4 The Default Excuse Allow me to be frank. “Normal” is your default excuse. What do I mean by that? When your family is “normal” what you’re saying is that my family is just like everyone else’s family. It’s the default …
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What it Means to Be No Longer Common? Part 3 The Involuntary Fight to Be Different The great contradiction to being “normal” Contradictory to what everyone wants us to think-that we all want to be like everyone else, we fight hard to outdo the people in our circle. Each individual …
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What it Means to Be No Longer Common? Part 2 Why Would Anyone Want to Be “Average”? We use words like normal, average, ordinary, common, like my friends, like my coworkers or colleagues and so on. These words and others just like them are a part of our normal conversation. But …
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What it Means to Be No Longer Common? Part 1 “Normal” is No Longer Working Most people think normal is the way to be. If you think normal is okay; it’s not. Normal is the person who doesn’t win the game. Normal is the person who doesn’t make the best …
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A Season of Loneliness – Part 4 Loneliness occurs when you expect others to do what only God can do. It’s no different in your relationships; you expect your significant other to bring you happiness, satisfaction and joy, but these things come only from God. A person can’t give you …
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A Season of Loneliness – Part 3 Switch Off Loneliness Turning on the “light” means getting a better, in most cases, a different point of view. Light illuminates everything it touches. Darkness, the opposite of light, brings misunderstanding and is the absence of clarity. Darkness produces fear, light produces freedom. …
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A Season of Loneliness – Part 2 Rejected and Alone We will do almost anything to be accepted by our peers, by our friends and by our family. In many cases we will even change who we are to be included, liked, and accepted. What we are really doing in …
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A Season of Loneliness – Part 1 Loneliness: Most Common Emotional Pain During the holiday season, one of the most “common” emotional pains experienced is loneliness. This time of year can be a constant reminder of past failure, let downs, betrayals, and losses. For normal people, they remember the lost …
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