by Kathy Collard Miller | Sep 16, 2018 | anger management, fruit of the Spirit, God's heart, God's love, hopelessness, overwhelmed feelings, perfect, perfection, perfectionism
As you know I write a lot about perfectionism. I love finding God’s healing perspectives in the Bible about it. One of the many passages in the Bible that we might miss is Exodus 23:23, 27-30: When my angel goes before you and brings you to the Amorites and the...
by Kathy Collard Miller | Aug 16, 2018 | atheists, evangelism, justice, knowing and understanding God, lies, overwhelmed, overwhelmed feelings, people pleasing, perfection, perfectionism, position in Christ, Pure-Hearted
Just like Adam and Eve, we try to dress ourselves with the spiritual fig leaves of performance. But hear them ripping? I tried to prevent my fig leaves from ripping by keeping track of my good deeds and bad deeds on an imaginary scale of justice. After all, I...
by Kathy Collard Miller | Jun 25, 2018 | beliefs, Bible reading, fear, fear of man, glory to God, heart change, knowing and understanding God, peace, people pleasing, perfection, perfectionism, Pure-Hearted
Are you a People Pleaser? Let’s start People Pleasing Anonymous! Would you believe even Jesus’ disciples could qualify to join? Just think of Peter standing to his feet at our meeting and saying, “Hi, I’m Peter and I’m a People...
by Kathy Collard Miller | Sep 14, 2017 | perfection, perfectionism, procrastination, regrets, relationships, worry
I’m so pleased to be able to have guest Michelle Rayburn share with you. She’s a part of Kathy Carlton Willis’ “WordGirls” group. Kathy offers these posts during the month of September and here’s the second one from them. Please...
by Kathy Collard Miller | Jun 18, 2017 | anger, anxiety, assumptions, belief, beliefs, blame, compliments, contempt, contentment, fear of man, motives, people pleasing, perfect, perfection, perfectionism
Have you noticed how often we can say something like, “I don’t want to make her feel … sad…angry…left out…upset…” The possibilities are endless. As a result, we become very careful and try to figure out how to avoid...
by Kathy Collard Miller | May 31, 2017 | anger, anger management, anxiety, assumptions, Bible reading, God's heart, God's love, patience, perfect, perfection, perfectionism, sanctification, studying Bible
Have you ever said things like:I’ll never get angry again I’ll always show love toward that person who is unlovable I’ll never be discontent again I’ll always be joyful in every circumstance I’ll have my devotions...