“You don’t drown by falling in the water. You drown by staying there.”-Unknown I sat holding back the tears while emotions just washed over me, listening intently to a young women pour out her heart. With her head hung low she could barely utter the words, afraid that judgement would come. Afraid that her sin in […]
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I failed today… big time. Just put a big F on my forehead. Just hours earlier, in my quiet time I had promised the Lord I would not yell at the children again. However, here I was yelling at the children. I felt like a failure, like I had let God down in some way.
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I allow my own expectations to steal my joy. I have played out many scenarios in my mind of how “perfect” my family could be, and when they don’t meet my expectations I feel frustrated. I did this very thing yesterday. It was my daughter’s birthday and I wanted it to be perfect in every
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Right before the New Year the Lord spoke to me through a dream. It was a simple, but profound dream, that has propelled me to write. In the dream, I was looking at a giant diamond that had many minute details. There was a man who was pointing out all the details of the diamond that
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“The distorted lens of social media amplifies the temptation to draw comparisons. When practicing Christian women compare themselves to their friends through social media such as Facebook, Twitter, or Pinterest, they are 11 times more likely to say their friends have more status and privilege and 10 times more likely to say others are more
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“I believe what God has in mind, and what the Bible really says, is that joy is a real emotion. God commands us to feel happy, feel joy, feel good. To feel the real emotions of joy. Not all the time, of course, not in every season or every moment-God is not interested in plastic
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It’s one of my delights, it brings me such joy. I really love the whole experience. At the restaurant downtown they bring it on a little tray with 2 cups, creamer, and sugar, and they serve it to you. It’s already set. The joy of it is already set before me, all I have to
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Let’s admit it. We all could use a little more joy in our lives. We all have been in places in our lives where we have needed joy and currently, we could expand our joy threshold by awakening to more of God’s love.
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What does it look like to have a heart at rest? After exploring God’s heart for the last 15 years walking as a Christian, I have come to the opposite conclusion then what I first thought. I thought, that we needed to allow our mind to guide our heart.
