You were great AH (fullstop)

It takes a whole lot more energy, brain-calories-burning thoughts, intentional-ity, grace and love, to say

"I think you were great because __________________ (traits to affirm in the person)"

than "I think you were great AH". (fullstop)



It's not just about the number of words.

Personally i think there is diminished value in simply saying that someone was great, without explaining why,
especially if you are not already close friends.

Go an extra mile (with extra pinches of grace) to tell the person directly what exactly he or she did great, because:

1. It pinpoints and affirms the exact God-given strengths the person has, allowing him to know so that he can utilise it more;
(not forgetting that it stirs up a lil' thanksgiving tune in his heart towards God)

2. The person may not even know that he has such a strength in the first place / or ever see it as a strength / or not even know he has strengths!

This is also a key that i caught in my years of mentoring the youths, many of whom really need light to shine upon their strengths and weaknesses, so that they can understand themselves better. :)

When you don't pack...

I often find things that I have put into my bag to bring home and leave there, still in my bag, day after day.

Such 'unpleasant discoveries' make me go ahhhhhhhh, because it means i have carried around unnecessary weight.

God dawned this in my mind last evening, when yet again, i found unpleasant discoveries as i opened my bag.

"If you don't pack, you will drag along unnecessary burdens".

Indeed if i do not leave time to reflect upon the happenings in my life, and pack my feelings and thoughts, i will non-consciously shoulder much unneccesary burdens as the days go on.

I hope you also leave time in your life to lay the past at the Cross, so that you can move ahead with greater and greater freedom. :)