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 …
Tag: practice
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Are You Tired of Worrying?
And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life? Instead, seek His kingdom, and these things will be added to you. Luke 12:25, 31 God keeps gently reminding me to TRUST Him more. TRUST in all things. In all circumstances and situations. He is reminding me in my soul as I am …
seeking and discovering a better WAY 