It is so hard not to defend yourself when you feel like you are being attacked. When someone tells you something you did wrong or something they think you did wrong, or how you acted mean, prideful, greedy, were rude, judgmental, irresponsible, or just selfish. It is hard not to want to react, to justify, …
reading.
I am currently re-reading and leading a weekly book discussion on Winning the War in Your Mind by Craig Groeschel. I have been working on my mind-management consistently for about 5 years. I didn’t know that’s what I was doing at first. I didn’t set out to change my thinking. I just knew there had …
let’s change our thinking.
We each have our own set of circumstances in life, our own hardships, troubles, trials, challenges, illnesses, weaknesses, struggles, misfortunes, sadness’s, and our own set of joys, pleasures, happiness’s, blessings, strengths, celebrations, and enjoyments. We get to choose how we think about our lives, about every experience. We determine what the circumstances mean by our …
communication.
What we say and what someone hears often are not the same. I recently received an email with the subject line, “I didn’t mean that.” A lady I follow started her email by saying, “Wait, that’s not what I meant at all.” Responding to the flood of emails she received after her post the week …
awareness.
We must realize, understand, and know that negative situations will occur. Know that we will make a mistake. Know that we will fail at times. Know that things will break or not work. Know that we will overreact. Know that things will sometimes not go as we expect or plan. This is all part of …
comparison.
Last week I shared that I had read “we are not judged by how we compare to others” in my daily devotional. So, God is not judging us by how we compare to others. But then I found myself judging me by how I think I compare to others. How quick we are to judge, …
continued thoughts on transformation.
It seems that sometimes as Christians we tend take in a lot of sermons and possibly lots of Bible studies. But. Are we being changed by the sermons we hear? Are we implementing the lessons learned in the studies we do? Are we going to church on Sundays just to check it off our to-do …
Transformation.
What do you believe? Not what do you say you believe, but what do you actually believe? What do the actions of your life say you believe? “What we believe determines how we behave.” Too often I think people say they believe something but then they live lives that reflect the opposite of what they …
Growth.
Sometimes I feel frozen by what to do next, knowing where to start, what dream do I really want to pursue, or wondering what I should be working on….at the same time I hear my life coach saying, “that is just your brain doing what a brain does,” and if I feel stuck then probably, …
Fruit.
These are some thoughts and questions gathered after I listened to The Eternal Current podcast with Aaron and Shauna Niequist called Good Fruit. I've been thinking about, Jesus' words in John 15..."remain in life-union with me...your life will be fruitless unless you live your life intimately joined to me...as you live in union with me …
seeking and discovering a better WAY 