by jgaroutte | May 30, 2018 | Uncategorized
How soon we forget. Our limited capacity for remembering things is astonishing. You walk into a room two seconds after getting up and suddenly have no idea why you entered that room. Someone asks you about a thing that occurred weeks, months, or even years ago and you...
by jgaroutte | May 24, 2018 | Uncategorized
In growing older, one of the phrases I’ve given more credence says, “You’re missing the forest for the trees.” In other words, you’ve become so focused on the details that you fail to see the big picture—and you end up missing the point. Flectio puts great emphasis on...
by jgaroutte | May 14, 2018 | Uncategorized
I was discussing the Flectio Journal with a friend the other day. He’s heard me talk a lot about it, but something finally clicked for him in our conversation. As a result, I realized I’ve been so close to the project and discuss it so much that sometimes I fail to...
by jgaroutte | May 10, 2018 | Uncategorized
If you’re not in the Bible regularly, you won’t know its truth. If you don’t know what it says, you won’t be able to live out the audacious life it calls you to live. Read it. Become so familiar with it that the truth you’re looking for in a given situation is readily...
by jgaroutte | May 3, 2018 | Uncategorized
“If you faint in the day of adversity, your strength is small.” –Prov. 24:10 How do you increase strength? Exercise. Repeat the same motion again and again—even when it isn’t easy. Then you simply increase resistance incrementally over time. In other words, you...
by jgaroutte | Apr 17, 2018 | Uncategorized
I feel like there’s a mountain to conquer in my life at the moment. Slightly discouraged, I mentioned something about it to my wife (we’ve already been talking about it and making headway in the past couple weeks—finding our next step and taking it, then the next,...
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