Ben Giselbach

Builder of things 🛠️🪵. Breaker of plans. Believer in grace.

[Ben Giselbach @benhardlastname]

Only God defines who you are.
Ideas shape us, but they are not us.
The danger comes when we hold them so tightly we forget to hold the truth.
Change your mind when truth demands it.
You lose something about yourself when you hold unquestioningly to something.

[Ben Giselbach @benhardlastname]

I keep reading Proverbs and realizing I have a lot in common with that “fool” guy.

[Ben Giselbach @benhardlastname]

Not every problem needs solving today.
Some just need space, prayer, and time.

[Ben Giselbach @benhardlastname]

Courage isn’t just for big battles.
It takes courage to go on when you’re tired.
To cry when you know it makes you vulnerable.
To face yourself honestly.
The small moments may be the hardest ones.

[Ben Giselbach @benhardlastname]

Morning light doesn’t erase the night.
It redeems it.
So does grace.

[Ben Giselbach @benhardlastname]

My thoughts upon dusting off James D Bales' 1962 book:

When the State becomes the source of meaning, morality, and identity, the soul becomes small.
The deepest human problems are spiritual before they are economic.
The answer is not the State.
The answer is Christ.

[Ben Giselbach @benhardlastname]

Most of life is learning to return your mind to what is good.
Not once, but again and again.
Gently.
Without shame.

[Ben Giselbach @benhardlastname]

Just as it is better to let a guilty man go free than it is to let an innocent man go to prison, it is always better to disbelieve a rumor about someone than it is to believe a rumor about someone.

Walk humbly, do justly, prize mercy, and in all things--love.

[Ben Giselbach @benhardlastname]

80 years ago we dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, a city of 255,000. Not intending to get into a debate or to virtue signal--so many moving parts leading up to that event. I'm just in awe that it happened. Always gives me pause.

[Ben Giselbach @benhardlastname]

New X account. Same Ben. Follow for quality content.