Truth

The crazy thing about truth is that it always goes both ways.

I can easily agree that being born gifted is nothing to brag about, and that I did nothing to earn it. Taking that the other way, though, I have a harder time with. My aspergers or AD/HD is nothing to be ashamed of, and I didn't bring it on myself. For some reason, I can't get that through my thick skull.

I believe that someone that I debate with should be open minded enough to really hear what I'm saying, and stop thinking about their own argument long enough to hear mine. But wait a minute, that means that I should stop talking long enough to hear their points, and be willing to change my mind if those points are valid.

When it says in Ecclesiastes that everything is meaningless, we take that the way of “why bother with any of it,” but it also goes the other way. We needn't stress about it when we mess up or choose not to do something we know we should.
We know that God's grace is so huge that it can cover all of our sins, but sometime it's harder to accept that it covers the "bigger sins," especially those of others.

An exercise that I've been trying a bit is to analyze truth in this way. Taking a truth that I completely accept, and looking at it's other implications. The hard part is to then act in those harder truths.