Tag: certainty

  • Up and Down

    Up and Down

    What we understand as up and down is relative to our location. Locations that, themselves, are relative to each other—it is all relative.

  • Grammar rules and grammar suggestions

    Grammar rules and grammar suggestions

    We want the rules of grammar to be fixed. They are not. Like everything in life, our desire for certainty is compromised by life itself.

  • Seeing—knowing is a matter of focus

    Seeing—knowing is a matter of focus

    People always want to know what the right thing to do is. Because we feel lost. And we aren’t sure what to do.

  • Using our Jesus Compass

    Using our Jesus Compass

    Jesus’s talk about The Way is a conflicting experience for modern Christians. Because the concept confuses us.

  • What we really want when we want to do the right thing

    What we really want when we want to do the right thing

    There is a reason we often struggle to know what the right thing to do is in a situation. We don’t like the pain of it.

  • Perspective: seeing things in different ways

    Perspective: seeing things in different ways

    We love the idea of broadening our perspective. Because we know we all see things differently. We also still love being right.

  • Always looking for the right thing

    Always looking for the right thing

    What is the right thing to do? Always the question. Strangely never really solved. Because it is never the only question.

  • The Right Decision

    The Right Decision

    We agonize about getting our decisions “right.” When we do this, we show anxiety about the future. If we’re in the middle of deciding, then it isn’t in the future. It’s something happening right now. But once it’s decided, it is no longer present. It immediately becomes the past. The problem is that usually the…