Today in this series on eight ways we grow into greater authenticity and greater faith, we shift from looking at the things we're moving away from to focus on what we are moving towards. The first of these is openness. I love how wonderfully vague this is. The very word is itself open. For me … Continue reading The Movement toward Openness
With all the 'eventfulness' of the past week, it's been a while since I've posted in this series on eight movements of faithful growth. To recap, so far we've looked at facades — the masks we wear to hide our true self — and two specific types of them: doing what we feel we 'should' … Continue reading The Movement Away from People-Pleasing
I was once invited to an event a colleague was organizing to celebrate Pride. I knew I'd be a little bit out of my element, but figured it would be a good opportunity to get to know some new people. I got there early and chatted with a couple people around me. One was a … Continue reading The Movement away from Conformity
The other day, we looked at how moving away from facades and towards the authentic self represents faithful growth. One of the major facades people are prone to hiding behind is the notion of 'shoulds', doing things simply because we feel we are obligated — by others or by God — to do so. The … Continue reading The Movement away from Shoulds
The other day, I introduced Wilkie Au and Noreen Cannon Au's eight movements of growth, as one framework through which we can explore what authentic spiritual growth looks like. Today, I'd like to look into the first of the eight movements they describe: "the movement away from facades, from a pretended self that we are … Continue reading The Movement away from Facades
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