Grace & Grounds

The heart is central to design and identity. Condition of our heart today usually leads us first to look at relationships and marriage, which I will do today as well. Our hearts are under attack, e.g. high divorce rate, people not interested in marriage and just living together. We look at it from a Christian perspective and therefore believe in the strength and value and beauty of marriage betwee...

Part 2 looks at what matters most to each of us specifically, especially from a higher perspective. This is informed a lot by our identity and design. God is very specific about each of us. He did not make a mistake with you. There is no one that is like you. There is only one version of you. What matters most to us as informed by our design and identity can be explained by way of two examples, e....

Grace and Grounds is about identity purpose and restoration, about who we truly are and who we were created to be and about our hearts. It is not about Personal Development. In the previous podcast on what matters most, we looked at what most matters to us based on what we currently know. More importantly though, what is the higher perspective on who we are and therefore what matters to us and how...

What are the things that matter most to us? We look at what matters most to us so we can get a better understanding of who we are and ultimately how that relates to how God sees us. We need a new perspective on who we are. How do we fit into the bigger picture? We are made of a larger whole where we each contribute a particular value. We have to look past the fake imitation and superficial version...

We have become too busy and do not take enough time out to pause and just recenter, ground or anchor ourselves. The more we work to have time for ourselves, the less time we seem to have. Compare how fast and efficient things are, e.g. sending letters before the Internet vs email. Are we losing ourselves in this? It is like vanity and grasping for wind as the Book Ecclesiastes says. We are prisone...