by David Beavers | Dec 14, 2022 | Acceptance, Encouragement, Grace, Relationships, Unconditional Love
I was 26 years old when I started graduate school in Dallas, Texas. In the first semester of my first year, I took a course in theology taught by a 41-year-old Dr. Phil Hook. What I didn’t know entering class that day was that my biggest takeaway would not be the...
by David Beavers | Feb 28, 2014 | Acceptance, Grace, Relationships, Unconditional Love
I was almost 50 years old when I got it. I’ve always had a bunch of great friends and acquaintances. But, learning to connect deeply with a few people didn’t come naturally for me. It’s been an awkward and sometimes unsettling process…to let a handful of people get...
by David Beavers | Dec 18, 2013 | Acceptance, Habits of Success, Letting Go
Another New Year approaches, and our lives seem to move along faster than ever. I have a theory—the perceived speed of time passing tends to match our current age. Don’t we all remember how long it used to take for Christmas to get here, before we became a teenager,...
by David Beavers | Oct 10, 2013 | Acceptance, Encouragement, Unconditional Love
Aunt Mabel was born in 1911. If you were born in 1911, you might have grown up hearing a lot about Lincoln’s assassination, a grandmother who died while giving birth to your mother, and all about the heroes and horrors of Gettysburg. Instead of waiting in line with...
by David Beavers | Jul 3, 2013 | Acceptance, Encouragement, Grace, Letting Go
Most of us have been taught that it’s noble to strive for perfection. To the human heart, that usually means that we should be like somebody else—somebody who “has it all together”. All of us notice people who do it better, faster and prettier than we could ever...
