Rick Beeman

I am doing this exercise with my men’s group at church.   The purpose behind it is to take an honest valuation of who you are right at this very moment.   It is so hard to be self-aware sometimes especially if we don’t like some of the things we see in the mirror.   So many of us live in denial.   It might not be full denial but partial.   We can all justify our actions.   I remember watching an old Maury Povich show where they were interviewing a murderer.   The killer admits that he murdered the guy.   But it wasn’t the murderer’s fault you see, at least in his mind.   The victim shouldn’t have been standing on the corner that day.   So in the murderer’s mind it was the other’s guy’s fault for being in the wrong place at the wrong time.   We all justify our actions. That is why it says in Proverbs that “A man’s ways is right in his own eyes, but God weighs the heart.”   We can put on a full mask or part...