Gracious and Loving God,Give us revelation about the meaning of your waysso we can enjoy the reward of following them fully. (Psalm 119:33 TPT) Lord, direct us throughout our journey so we can experience your plans forour life. Reveal the life-paths that are pleasing to you. (Psalm 25:4 TPT) Help us to remember…Perfect love cast out fear. (1 John 4:18)May …
Category: faith
Learning to live in the tension
I like to be. Organized. Prepared. Responsible. Communicate well. Make good decisions.When I mess up in one of these areas I tend to spiral. When I fail in multiple areas in the same evening I begin to feel like an utter failure in all of life.I’ve been trying to work on my mind management. I’ve …
What story are you telling yourself?
We are each telling ourselves a story about our life, a story about our worth. Sadly, it is usually a negative story. Usually, we are using the world’s standard of measurement, or comparing ourselves to others, and then telling ourselves, we are not good enough, smart enough, pretty enough, strong enough, accomplished enough, and so …
Faith.
I think our faith is like a muscle, we must develop it by practicing believing. We practice believing and our faith grows stronger. There will be things that happen, circumstances and situations, in our life that cause us to doubt or fear or be uncertain because that is how we have trained ourselves to respond. …
Believe.
One of my favorite quotes is from the 1994 version of Miracle on 34th Street. In it Kris Kringle says, "If you can't believe, if you can't accept anything...on faith, then you are doomed to live a life dominated by doubt." We must practice the belief we want to believe until we believe it. We …
Be kind. To YOURSELF.
Photo by Andre Furtado on Pexels.com We must practice loving-kindness towards ourselves. For years I let the voice in my head tell me all kinds of untrue, unkind, self-sabotaging things, just thinking that is how it works. Then I learned that I am the voice. I have the power to decide what my brain tells …
Daily Practice.
Each morning I read from You are the Beloved Daily Meditations for Spiritual Living by Henri Nouwen. Today's said, “You have to keep unmasking the world about you for what it is: manipulative, controlling, power-hungry, and, in the long run, destructive. The world tells you many lies about who you are, and you simply have …
Wild Calling?
A friend recently asked me to answer the question, “what living your wild calling means to you and what it looks like today?” We tend to think our calling, or our purpose, is to do something grand, to accomplish something. We tend to look at what the world considers valuable, or we look at what …
I like to write.
I have been writing in journals most of my life. I like to write down what I'm learning, what is happening, what feels important to me, what I am thankful for, and prayers. I also like to write cards, notes, and emails of encouragement. I like to write and share about what God is teaching …
New Year
Each new year I choose a word and a scripture to be my theme for the year. This year inspired by my husband's Christmas Eve sermon I picked the word LIGHT. And John 8:12 TPT, "I am light to the world and those who embrace me will experience life-giving light, and they will never walk …
seeking and discovering a better WAY 