Illuminate

On my way back from our Alaska mission trip I nearly puked on our first flight. I have flown a lot but wow this time I felt awful. There was so much turbulence on the way down and we circled around the airport for what seemed like forever. It didn't help that someone in front of me was watching a movie that had a scene where someone's skin was being cut off! Wow, thanks for that. After a while, we finally landed and man was I glad to be on the ground. In a new album by Andy Mineo called The Arrow, he asks a lot of questions about doubt and uncertainty. At the end of the album, he shares about his own turbulence experience in the song Lost. You can read a quote from the song below. I had this moment where I was on a plane We was at LGA, it was getting ready to take off And it just looked gloomy and dark like thunder and lightning I didn't even think we were gonna take off Anyways, we started to take off, the pilot was like, you know, "Brace yourself, there's...

What is someone worth? What are you worth? Like we said in part one if we define worth as what someone is willing to pay, then how much someone is willing to sacrifice or give for someone else can give us an idea of our worth. Many times we wonder what our value is. With any transaction, you buy something to get something out of it. That is the issue with how we judge our worth today. We may get a compliment on our looks but is that all we are good for? Someone may be interested in us just because of what we have but is that all we are worth? We may get a lot of attention and accolades based on our athletic abilities but is that all that there is to a person? Not only that but with every transaction comes strings attached that now you somehow owe them something. This can be a vicious cycle until some people feel used or they feel they are not worth anything because that is what people have been willing to "pay" into their life. In some cases, because we have devalued o...

What is something worth to you? What is the value of something? I have heard before that something is worth what we are willing to pay for it. It is so interesting to me what we place value on. Many times when we buy something we are not basing that value on what it is but rather what we get from it. For example, a lot of times we don't buy shoes because they protect our feet. We buy the brand of shoes to make us feel faster, to make us "like mike", or maybe to make us feel more adventurous. Think about a car. We don't buy just something that gets us from spot A to spot B. We are buying something that is sporty, luxurious, or makes us feel a certain thing. In economics people determine value by supply and demand. How much do we have of it and how much of demand is there for it. Something could be very common and it will not have not much value. Something that is rare or is a special edition will cost more because it is seen as more valuable thing due to a low s...