Sometimes we have to “do” before we believe and sometimes we have to believe before we “do.” (from Gregg Koskela’s sermon yesterday morning at Newberg Friends Church)

Right before the statement he had presented the dilemma of practicing a level of virtue that may seem unnatural. Should I try to be more like what I want to be even if it looks (and feels) fake? I find rather restricting the line of thinking that says, “I am who I am and I’m not going to pretend I’m anything else.”

I like the person I want to be a lot more than the person I am. In my efforts to make the “real” me a better person, I might have to fake it from time to time.