Holly Stratton

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Category archives: Friendship

Friendship And The Deep Pain of Betrayal

Nothing reveals the selfish motivation of our heart in entering a friendship more than comparing how much time we were willing to offer the relationship at the beginnning in comparison to the time we were willing to offer the relationship at the end. Read more

Humbly Guarding Our Heart, Not Pridefully Protecting Our Heart

Protecting our hearts in pride is not the same as guarding them in humility. Prideful protection is concerned with survival, humble guarding is concerned with surrender. Prideful protection is consumed with saving self, humble guarding is consumed with dying to self. Read more

Unrepentant & Unresolved: When God Uses A Brick Wall To Save Us From Ourselves

When our mission to uncover the heart finds us running into a brick wall, a destructive thread of contention immediately begins to weave its way into the relationship. Maybe softly. Maybe silently. However it weaves its death, the evil nature of its destructive fiber is found in the fact that it doesn't allow the heart to be revealed. Read more