Maturity is produced through relationships and community.
If you want to know why you were placed on the planet, you must begin with God.
Life is too short to learn everything by personal experience.
the moment you stop learning, you stop leading.
Even through such simple acts as telling the truth, being kind, and encouraging others, we bring a smile to God's face.
To me, thinking with the mind of Christ means to be thinking in light of eternity, which is what Colossians is all about; and that our lives are hid with Christ in God and that eternity, we're going to spend far more time on the other side of death than this side.