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 …
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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 …
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. …
Looking in All the Wrong Places
When we are looking for our worth, value, purpose, or meaning “out there” in the world from our work, what we do, or from our children, or anywhere other than from God in ourselves, we tend to show up to our life needy and clingy and expectant. When we are looking for love, joy, or …
Why do we expect people to be perfect?
Why do we think other people should never get upset? Or why do we expect other people to always get along? Or why do we think people should know what we are thinking without us telling them? Or why do we think other people should think like we think or do what we think they …
Be PROUD of YOU!
Be PROUD of YOU! Look for and pay attention to all the things you do, all the things you accomplish, all the things you help with, all the things you get right, how you show up each day and serve your family and your work, how you take care of yourself and others! YOU ARE …
repeat. calling.
A friend one time asked me to answer the question, “what does living your 'calling' means to you and what does it look like in your life?” 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 …
Steadfast.
I am currently finishing up the Flourish Devotional and Study Steadfast: Cultivating a Heart Like Mary by Jennifer R Kochert and Mindy Kiker. This week I have been reading, looking at, dissecting, discovering in Luke 2:19, “But Mary treasured up all these things, pondering them in her heart.” We need to practice awareness and notice the …
Commit to LOVE.
“Receiving love is the key to experiencing more love and that begins in your mind by deciding to receive the love that God has given us.” God’s love is His gift to us. Jesus came to bring us the gift of LOVE. God gave us His Holy Spirit to live in us so we would …
Thinking about holidays, family, and planning
Some of us have a lot of unhelpful thoughts swirling in our head about family and planning and the holidays. Thoughts like, “This is such a mess of a situation.” Or. “It is so difficult to figure out the holidays.” Or. “These people are hard to deal with.” Or. "Why can't we all get along, …
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