Great post! Today is my 66th birthday. Do you know one of the things I am thankful for? Reduced testosterone! Seriously. That I was able to make it to 66 is a massive testament to God's grace. I didn't start following Christ until I was 41. My greatest regrets are the way I behaved sexually. I was raised in a post-Freudian culture that said no to almost any sort of sexual control. That was barbaric, superstitious, unenlightened. What madness! What a price my generation and those that followed have paid. I wonder what level of hell Dante would place Freud?
Oh gosh. I am so thankful for the gospel, so thankful for Jesus Christ, whom Freud surely saw as profoundly repressed. How sad that he didn't see that Christ was the only truly free man who has ever lived.
Congrats on making it to 4k in subscribers, having said that, I would like the part of my life back that I spent reading the "Muppet History" sex scandal story.
I hear people talking about boundaries all the time, yet I am not sure I've ever heard the idea of placing boundaries for the benefit of others. I've always thought of them as a way to contain myself with sadly little thought of another person. I can see how placing a boundary of, say, not being overtly social to the point it could be taken as flirting could protect the other person as much as myself. Appreciate that insight!
Great post! Today is my 66th birthday. Do you know one of the things I am thankful for? Reduced testosterone! Seriously. That I was able to make it to 66 is a massive testament to God's grace. I didn't start following Christ until I was 41. My greatest regrets are the way I behaved sexually. I was raised in a post-Freudian culture that said no to almost any sort of sexual control. That was barbaric, superstitious, unenlightened. What madness! What a price my generation and those that followed have paid. I wonder what level of hell Dante would place Freud?
Oh gosh. I am so thankful for the gospel, so thankful for Jesus Christ, whom Freud surely saw as profoundly repressed. How sad that he didn't see that Christ was the only truly free man who has ever lived.
Congrats on making it to 4k in subscribers, having said that, I would like the part of my life back that I spent reading the "Muppet History" sex scandal story.
Keep going!
I hear people talking about boundaries all the time, yet I am not sure I've ever heard the idea of placing boundaries for the benefit of others. I've always thought of them as a way to contain myself with sadly little thought of another person. I can see how placing a boundary of, say, not being overtly social to the point it could be taken as flirting could protect the other person as much as myself. Appreciate that insight!
Amen brother
Excellent reminder. Thank you.