No One Can Fix This for You

At a high-point of “success” in ministry, I went through a period of intense stress. I wanted to be anywhere but where I was. But what felt like dying was, in fact, a process of enlightenment.

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Did you ever play “hot lava” when you were a kid? Remember throwing out the couch cushions. They represented the “safe place.” The rest of the floor was “hot lava.” The idea was to make it harder and harder to jump to a safe spot until you had to take a major risk to make the last leap onto the couch. The most important r…