“Be still, and know that I am God.” Psalm 46:10 NIV You may have seen this scripture on a decorative sign in someone’s home, have it in your own home, or heard it repeated growing up in church. People recite this scripture. Have seen or heard this scripture. But. Do we do what this scripture …
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practice.
Practice self-compassion. Practice compassion. Practice renewing your mind. Practice calm. You know when you are in the grocery store approaching the checkout and scanning to see which line is the shortest. Wondering which line to choose when they all are full. Then you see a line that only has one customer, so you go to …
what I learned in the wilderness…
I learned to receive Love (to believe I am loved and am worthy of love), To listen for God not just talk to Him, To sit silently in His Presence and soak up His Shalom, To practice mind-management (I have more power than I realized the power to choose what I think!), To take responsibility …
More thoughts on. Practices. Habits. Changes.
We repeat movements, routines, thought patterns. We repeat choices and each time we repeat a choice we are developing a habit. If I eat a bowl of ice cream every night after dinner, I will develop a habit of eating ice cream every night after dinner. I will begin to fix the bowl of ice …
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Practices. Habits. Changes.
“We become good at what we repeatedly do.” “What we believe determines how we behave.” If we think we will always be the way we are, if we think we are incapable of change, then we will continue to be the way we are. “Change happens when the pain of staying the same is greater …
discovering a new Way
My human instinct in the “hard” situations of life is often to want to get out of it. Run away. Quit even. But I have learned that it is better to face the hard thing, to move through it, to keep going! I have discovered that when I rely on God to strengthen me and …
Seek and Find.
Between 2013, when my family and I moved to Tennessee, and the fall of 2016 a series of external circumstances, experiences, conversations, things that happened, caused me to seriously doubt. Doubt myself. Doubt others. Doubt life. Doubt God. But thankfully my response was to seek God. To dive into a search for Truth. Read God’s …
God Is with You!
God is with us! God is with you! God is with me! Every moment of every day. God is in us! Always available! Ever-Present Help! We have the best, wisest, most faithful, generous, kind, loving, trustworthy friend with us all the time! Our heavenly Father! The Lord Jesus Christ! Holy Spirit! Divine Flow! We have …
confrontation.
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 …
seeking and discovering a better WAY 