Friday night and today

May 03, 2008 23:56

On Friday night I went out for dinner with Rachel. We went to this fantastic restaurant on Murray street with great cherry tomatoes (I just cannot shut up about them - they're so good!). After dinner we did some window shopping in the city. I found these really cute shoes at Betts and they looked really good with jeans. I didn't buy them though, I ( Read more... )

restaurants, shopping, church

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etimodnar May 4 2008, 01:02:50 UTC
self esteem is not so much a good thing because
1. it's selfish
2. it's wanting you to come to terms with your failings and say that they're ok (sin is not ok)

Christ esteem is knowing about our failings and knowing that God loves us anyway and always will. Our correct attitude is to be joyful over being forgiven and humble because we're still sinners.

Generally the difference is between looking inwards, and looking outwards. There was more to it, but I cannot recount the whole of it to you.

There were also some stats done by secular organisations about it and they showed that having high self esteem doesn't automatically equate to a healthy and happy society. In fact, people with high self esteem and more likely to experiment with drugs/alcohol/sex and more likely to be flippant of others.

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