Being Real, Part Two
Losing your hair takes time, and it’s pretty painful to have your eyes drop out and your joints get loose. But in the long run, that’s the only way to be. REAL.

Written by Chuck Swindoll, these encouraging devotional thoughts are published seven days per week.
Losing your hair takes time, and it’s pretty painful to have your eyes drop out and your joints get loose. But in the long run, that’s the only way to be. REAL.
To “find yourself” requires that you take time to look. It’s essential if you want to be a whole person, real to the core.
Looking for ways to make your witness more gracious, more winsome? Interested in communicating Christ’s love and in building bridges that attract others to Him? Start with your speech...and don’t worry if folks can guess what part of the country you’re from.
Chase the phrase “one another” through the last half of your New Testament and you’ll see what I mean. We really do need each other. More profoundly, more desperately than we even begin to realize.
Are you what we might call a modern-day prophet, a tomorrow-thinker in a world of yesterday-dwellers? Or do you know somebody like that? Though often unpopular and unthanked, these people perform a vital role in society.
Prophets, I suppose we could call them...seers who frown while others yawn...restless, troubled, contemplative souls.
Little by little I’m learning just how enamoured I was of all those catch phrases that made me forget I was on a sinking ship.
One of the most encouraging things about new years, new weeks, and new days is the word new. Webster reveals its meaning: “refreshed, different from one of the same that has existed previously...unfamiliar.”
To start over, you have to know where you are. To get somewhere else, it’s necessary to know where you’re presently standing.
A basic task you accepted when you became a parent was the building of self-esteem and confidence into your offspring.