A Sharp Compassion: 7 Hard Words to Heal Our Insecurities and Free Us from Offense
Chase Replogle, "A Sharp Compassion: 7 Hard Words to Heal Our Insecurities and Free Us from Offense"
English | ASIN : B0D79WQXVZ | 2024 | 218 pages | EPUB | 162 KB
English | ASIN : B0D79WQXVZ | 2024 | 218 pages | EPUB | 162 KB
According to Google, the phrase “I’m offended” has increased in usage by more than 5,600% in just the past century. Humans have always taken offense, but never have we been so obsessed with it. Offense stunts our conversations and divides our relationships. It infects our families, politics, entertainment, and churches. Yet few seem to be asking why or what it might be costing us.
If you trace the offense deep enough, you’ll find a culture and our individual lives drowning in insecurity. For all our self-help, self-affirming, and self-esteem rhetoric, we can’t seem to overcome it. Just beneath our awareness, our insecurities distort our desires, poison our relationships, and leave us increasingly sensitive to offense. But there is a worse consequence.
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