I listened to Ernest Hemingway’s book The Old Man and the Sea this week. Initially, I thought it was terrible. I said as much when I got home last night after finishing the book. Dean looked the book up and said it was about perseverance. My thought was, “yeah but he got nothing for his …
Thankfully God Has Shown Me…
A big part of my transformation came as I learned to, trained myself to believe in God’s love for me. Not just believe that God is love but that God loves me, as I am, even if I never improve. Also, learning to, training myself to receive the love God has for me. Believing in …
Trust and Receive.
Do you trust God? Do you receive His gifts? We build trust. We choose to believe, have faith, before we have the evidence of what we hope for. (Hebrews 11:1 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.) I was talking with a friend recently about how I …
Life Is Not Easy and That Is Okay
Life is challenging. We are students of life. We have never done this before. We are figuring it out as we go. We are always in the process of becoming. This should cause us to be kind to ourselves as we navigate and move through life. Most of us think we should be further along, …
Love Your Neighbor As Yourself
Jesus said, “Love your neighbor as yourself.” (Matthew 22:39) Do you love yourself? If you do not love yourself then you are not going to be able to love your neighbor very well. I admit that I did not like or love myself for the longest time. I did not feel worthy of love because …
What Story Are You Telling?
We are each telling ourselves a story about our own worth. Usually, it is a negative story that we are not good enough, that we are not smart enough, not skinny enough, not strong enough, not accomplished enough, etc. Or we tell ourselves we have made too many mistakes, messed up too much, that we …
Struggling with identity?
Who do you say you are? What story do you tell yourself about yourself? What thoughts do you think about you? How do you talk to you? What do you believe about you? Something that helped me a ton was realizing that I am the voice in my head. You are the voice in your …
Hope While Accepting All of Life
When I say, “we have more power than we realize, or often choose to tap into, the power of the Holy Spirit living in us helping us!” I am trying to remind us that we have God with us ALL THE TIME. In the good and the bad. In the easy and the hard. And …
Decide. Choose. With Intention.
What if we decided to stop being harsh and judgmental of ourselves? What if we decided to meet ourselves with compassion and understanding? What if we decided to believe we are enough just as we are? What if we decided to believe we are loved just as we are? We decide. We have that power. …
Control Issue
When my life feels out of sorts and like I just can’t get a hold of things, kind of out of control, it becomes easy for me to become judgmental or to start trying to tell other people what they should do to improve their lives, in an effort to make myself “feel” better. It …
seeking and discovering a better WAY 