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Cameron Cruce
Pressed with Purpose
No one wants to be crushed. To be beaten back and forth by the winds of life, just trying to make sense of the chaos that's in front of you. I was sixteen the first time I visited Israel. It did something to me, something inside of me that I'll never be able to explain. Just walking where Jesus once walked, seeing all the places I had read so much about... suddenly all those stories from Sunday School weren't just stories. They were real. But there was one moment that stuck with me... this ancient olive press. I never thought...
Cameron Cruce
Cradled by Greatness
You may feel like the best of you has passed. Like your greatest moments are behind you. But only because you staple your understanding of greatness to things that fade. What if you could believe once again that who you might become tomorrow is meant to overshadow everything you've been up until today? Greatness is a chosen absolute. It doesn't dwindle or wither, flicker or fail. It simply is or it is not. It is not an achievement or a single moment, a title or prize. But rather a constant state of being, and one you must choose. For if...
Cameron Cruce
Right. Consistently.
The hardest thing a man can do is the right thing... consistently. To wrangle his desires despite how he feels, to balance his impulses regardless where his current distraction is pulling him. To understand there will be no applause for it, very little gain in it and few who will stand beside him through it. Knowing he'll do it alone, over and over again, for a lifetime, all with the hope that somewhere along the way, doing the right thing might just be enough to help fix what’s broken in the world. There will be days he grows tired, days...
Cameron Cruce
Rust and Iron
Iron sharpens iron, but rust decays both. If you want a glimpse at your future take a look at your friends, at who's sharpening you. Most people never quite get where they want to go in life, or become the fullness of who they were created to be because the path in front of them is thick with obstacles, and once they grow dull they're not around people who sharpen them back up.Never be afraid to reconstruct your circle for the sake of framing your future. All your potential depends on it. Be iron, be around iron, but also be...
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