my world is getting larger. 

jesus be the center. jesus be the seed. just like a tree, grow inside of me. be the root of it all. causing me to bear good fruit and increase your kingdom. if i am building on your foundation, i will not fail and i cannot fall. 

expand your circle of love. 

broaden your circle of influence. 

stretch. 

• "How did your new life begin? Was it by working your heads off to please God? Or was it by responding to God's Message to you? Are you going to continue this craziness? For only crazy people would think they could complete by their own efforts what was begun by God. If you weren't smart enough or strong enough to begin it, how do you suppose you could perfect it? Did you go through this whole painful learning process for nothing? It is not yet a total loss, but it certainly will be if you keep this up!
• Does the God who lavishly provides you with his own presence, his Holy Spirit, working things in your lives you could never do for yourselves, does he do these things because of your strenuous moral striving or because you trust him to do them in you? 
• The obvious impossibility of carrying out such a moral program should make it plain that no one can sustain a relationship with God that way. The person who lives in right relationship with God does it by embracing what God arranges for him. Doing things for God is the opposite of entering into what God does for you. 
• Christ redeemed us from that self-defeating, cursed life by absorbing it completely into himself. "

 - paul

eye candy

so tasty. 

art by daria tessler. 

as a man thinks, so is he

looking glass self. 

• we imagine how we appear to those around us
  
• we interpret others reactions
  
• we develop a self concept 
  

your are selfish. you are weak. you are small. you can't do it. no one wants to hear what you have to say. your life means nothing. you have no purpose. people think your weird. people don't like you. you will never be successful. just shut up. don't say what your thinking, no one cares. no one is looking after you. you are alone. you are isolated. you are stupid. just stop. 

you are a child of God. i will use you to do great things. you have the potential to change lives. i created you for a purpose. you can have everlasting joy in me. you have something to give people. you have an important message to bring. i will reward you for obedience. you are loved more then you could ever comprehend, imagine, or dream of. you will do great things. 

which voice resounds the loudest in your head?

don't let people tell you who you are. you find your identity in Christ. when you listen to what other people tell you, and the voices that the enemy puts in your head, a self-fulfilling prophecy occurs. people take on the characteristics attributed to them. thats not who we are. thats not who we were created to be. we were created to be like Jesus. don't live in isolation and internalization. become transparent.

 
don't let your self-image reflect the world projection. 

don't let the world control your mirror.