Our purpose is not about what we do but about who we are. We choose what we do and hopefully we are loving, kind, gracious, secure, doing it and therefore glorify God. God has filled each of us with purpose, giftedness, talents. As we spend time with Him, reading His word, sitting in His presence, …
Tag: choose
Choose love.
What do we often choose instead of love? We choose to be unkind. We choose to be selfish. We choose to judge. We choose to compare. We choose to be bitter, resentful, angry, and any other emotions that do not serve us. When we choose something other than love who feels something other than love …
Expanded Capacity.
For years I was overly concerned with what other’s thought about me. And I often thought they thought I was too emotional. I thought I was too emotional. I wanted to stop my emotions. But thankfully, God has shown me… Too often we make how someone else feels or what someone else is doing mean …
Take Your Power Back
How do we get to the point where we stop expecting others to make us feel good about ourselves and realize that we generate our feelings by our own thinking? We think if they would just do “whatever,” or if they would change, or if they would meet my expectations, then I would feel better. …
2 Steps to Help You Learn a New Way of Being
Do you ever feel like you are living that old Bill Murray movie Groundhog Day? Like every day is the same? Do you ever feel that things will always be the same? If we change our thoughts, we change our lives! We have trained ourselves to be the way we are with the thoughts we …
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Training.
Dog training. Roscoe is our wonderful, rambunctious, full of energy 6-month-old Chocolate Lab. He is smart. He is also easily distracted. At our first dog training class learning to use a training collar, my husband and I were trying to be good students, listen to all that the trainer was teaching/explaining/ showing us, while …
transformation.
Transformation is not mere change. Transformation is altering your way of being to become what you haven’t been before. Transformation is reimaging who you are being in the world. Your “being” is your habitual way of thinking, feeling, and acting. Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, Romans …
Memento Mori
Last month, my husband’s mom died. She had been sick for a while, but it still felt sudden and unexpected. Her death had a way of making me think about life, about time, about relationships. Then last Thursday night we were told that three runners on the Milligan University cross-country team had been hit by …
Meaning.
Recently a lady told me that her daughter had told her, “You make me feel bad about me.” Or something close to that, basically that the daughter felt bad because of what the mom said. We think that what other people say to us makes us feel the way we feel, but I have learned …
Ways of Being
I have learned that we develop ways of being in our childhood based on our personalities and environments. We have subconscious programming because of our upbringing, our nervous system, past trauma, our social conditioning, genetics, so many factors. Every single experience we have informs our brains how to think in order to keep us safe. …
seeking and discovering a better WAY 