With a woman-a-look at culture from a Christian worldview, I'm John Stone Street with the point.

Ask the New York Times recently, where the key is to matter, and the article mattering

was defined as adding value to a community and being valued in return.

Now one hand, this is kind of an example of missing the point of the problem, telling

someone to choose to matter when they don't think they do is kind of like telling someone

to make meaning out of an ultimately meaningless universe with their ultimately meaningless lives.

At the same time, the authors not wrong to imply that mattering to other people is far

more important than the kind of internalized self-affirmation that typically passes for

therapy these days.

Our world leads us to be inwardly focused in so many ways, untethered from anything outside

of our own feelings and will.

But we were made to find meaning outside of ourselves, which is why deep connection

and relationships matter so much and help us to know that we matter.

That's the way God designed us.

We can only truly know ourselves and reference to our most important relationships, especially

with Him.

For the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street with the point.