Rick Warren's Blog, page 609

How Gentleness Calms Conflict

Have you noticed that human beings have a tendency to mimic the emotions of people across from us? The reason we do this is because of mirror neurons in your brain. They allow you to sympathize and also to mirror what other people feel.

Persuade With Gentleness

Gentleness is persuasive. This is extremely important if you happen to make a career in sales. Why? Because the hard sell no longer works. We no longer respond to a guy yelling at us that he���s got this amazing deal that we can���t live without.

A Gentle Response Shows Your Love

Gentleness diffuses conflict. It disarms critics. It���s persuasive. It���s attractive. And gentleness communicates love.

How God Uses Grief to Help Us Grow

Grief, loss, and pain are an inevitable part of life. But did you know that God uses our grief to help us grow? He does it in three ways.

First, God uses pain to get our attention. C.S. Lewis wrote, ���God whispers to us in our pleasure, but he shouts to us in our pain.��� Pain is God���s megaphone. We rarely change when we see the light. We change when we feel the heat.

Six Ways God Blesses a Broken Heart

Every one of us will experience loss in our lives. So how does God heal your broken heart? You don���t get over a loss. You can���t go under it; you can���t go around it. You���ve got to go through the grief. And if you���re scared to express emotion and refuse to go through it, that���s where you get stuck.

Grief Is a Healthy, Helpful Choice

Life is tough. Would you agree with that? Since Adam���s sin, the world was broken, and nothing works perfectly. Your body doesn���t work perfectly; the weather doesn���t work perfectly; the economy doesn���t work perfectly; no relationship works perfectly. Life is full of losses.

How God Uses Your Job To Provide For You

What do you put your security in?

If you put your security in your bank account, your job, or your investments, that means you are an insecure person, because you can lose all of those things.

Criticized? Trust God to Defend You

There are always going to be people in your life who misunderstand you and people who don���t like you. There will always be people who criticize you, judge you, attack you, and spread rumors about you.

While You���re Waiting, God Is Working

The Bible is clear that there are seasons in life, and one of the seasons that God talks about again and again is the season of waiting.

While you���re waiting, God is working. Don���t think that the season of waiting means that God has stopped working. He���s just taking you through that season because he���s using the time to work in your circumstances for your good.

Your Strength Is Limited, God���s Is Unlimited

Are you tired? Some of you are running on steam. You���re tired a lot. At the end of the day, you���re worn out and you���re running out of energy, and the reason why is real simple: You���re a human being.