Song & Psych Saturday! ;)

Went to LifeChurch tonight, and they played this song during worship.  (Well, they played a rock version that had me playing the hymn version in my head).  But when they got to the chorus, it was just one of those awesome, genuine worship moments for me... when your heart really connects with God in a way that makes you tear up... indescribable, but wonderful.

Anyway, I love Carrie's version - powerful - so here it is:


Not sure if the post title will stick or not, but I do like the idea of a day set aside for posting new thoughts or quotes on Psychology. :)  Here are a few brilliant quotes that I love from The Road Less Traveled...

"If an act is not one of work or courage, then it is not an act of love.  There are no exceptions."

"Dependency may appear to be love because it is a force that causes people to fiercely attach themselves to one another... It has its genesis in parental failure to love and it perpetuates the failure... It nourishes infantilism rather than growth.  It works to trap and constrict rather than to liberate.  Ultimately, it destroys rather than builds relationships, and it destroys rather than builds people."

"Many parents are unwilling or unable to expend the energy required for true listening.  Perhaps most parents... For true listening, no matter how brief, requires tremendous effort.  You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time."

"Loneliness is the unavailability of people to communicate with on any level.  Aloneness, however, is the unavailability of someone to communicate with at your level of awareness...  This kind of aloneness is 'shared' by all who travel the farthest on the journey of spiritual growth.  It is such a burden that it simply could not be borne were it not for the fact that as we outdistance our fellow humans, our relationship to God inevitably becomes correspondingly closer.  In the communion of growing consciousness, of knowing with God, there is enough joy to sustain us."

"The patient's will to grow is the one crucial determinant of success or failure in psychotherapy... people's capacity to love, and hence their will to grow, is nurtured not only by the love of their parents during childhood but also throughout their lives by grace, or God's love... I believe that grace is available to everyone, that we are all cloaked in the love of God, no one less nobly than another.  The only answer I can give, therefore, is that most of us choose not to heed the call of grace and to reject it's assistance."

"Those who have faced their mental illness, accepted total responsibility for it, and made the necessary changes in themselves to overcome it, find themselves not only cured and free from the curses of their childhood and ancestry but also find themselves living in a new and different world... even if they emerge from therapy without a belief in God, such successful patients still generally do so with a very real sense that they have been touched by grace."

~M. Scott Peck, The Road Less Traveled