Thursday, May 21, 2015

You Think You Know

You have to be careful what you think you know.

-- Simon Sinek

We make assumptions about people and this leads us to conclusions about them...conclusions that often are not helpful to our relationships with them.

We also make conclusions about ourselves, almost as if we are imagining that there just isn't that much more to know, when we focus only the patterns we are currently familiar with.  And these, in turn, reinforce our assumptions about what is going in others.

And, we make conclusions about God, discussion for another day....

We simply must have the courage to wonder about who we are (even doubt, at times); not only will we discover that our conclusions are premature, but we will also discover that our relationships will grow.