Two Sides of the Coin. . .
Life is a battle. I grow impatient with myself. I wish for faster progress than I see within me. Sometimes it seems like I keep fighting the same battles over and over again. I make small victories, but I long for breaching the enemies walls and putting him on the run. . .I want to annihilate those deficiencies within me. . . I wonder if my strategy is wrong. I spend much of my time focused upon my failings. . . focused on the negatives, the shortcomings within me. I surely can learn from the greatest teacher of all. What was His method? How did Jesus teach? When He was asked what was most important in the Law of Moses, He replied: Mark 12:29-31 And Jesus answered him: The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord: And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment. And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as...