Your unwillingness to listen to other people’s ideas, experiences, and beliefs is actually just your own fear of being wrong. It’s not wisdom and it’s not a commitment to the truth. It’s a commitment to your own pride.

It’s not judgmental of you to believe someone when they show you who they are. You actually can judge a tree by its fruit.

If you’re experiencing trauma or abuse…or even a feeling of being uncomfortable or disagreement, you actually don’t have to “submit” to the authority and you can leave any time.

Just because you’ve advocated for something, even publicly, in your life doesn’t mean that you have to continue advocating for that thing. You are actually allowed to grow and change your mind.

You don’t have to have everything figured out.

You’re allowed to have questions, and you’re allowed to have hard feelings, and those feelings and questions are allowed to stay for as long as you need to let them stay.

Uncertainty and doubt are not actually the enemy.

If you treat people differently when they no longer agree with you, you might be part of a cult…or maybe a gang.

Life doesn’t actually end when you let yourself crumble and become something new.

Love always listens, even when it disagrees.

If you’re not listening with the intent of truly understanding the person in front of you, you’re probably not loving that person well.

Practically demonstrating your humility in a conversation with someone who has a different perspective than you looks like allowing your curiosity to outweigh your certainty.

If your belief system requires you to muzzle other people who have a different message than you, you might be the problem.

Look out for the marginalized because we all need someone advocating for our voice that isn’t us.

You’re going to lose friends if you change your mind, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that you’ve abandoned your morals. Sometimes that means you actually followed through on your morals and just learned some new information.

Finding yourself feels like you’re breaking at first, but in reality, that very exploration is going to make you whole.

There’s a difference between someone who wants to walk with you through every season of life and someone who wants to walk with you so long as you agree with them.

It’s okay to set boundaries with people you are trying to outgrow.