Did you realize encouragement isn’t always positive? Most of the time we think of encouragment as a good thing, but often people are encouraging each other to bad attitudes, habits and actions. This happens in groups too, all of us affirming the other that our petty jealousies and dramas are totally justified.
It takes a lot of courage to encourage others to greatness. If you attempt to do so you’ll be swimming against the stream. Do it anyway. Make a goal to never encourage or affirm someone in their madness. Instead, build them up in what is good, creative, beautiful, loving.
David Curry
