We talk a lot about freedom in July. Let freedom ring! In recent months the word FREEDOM has taken on a whole new meaning for me. Christ came to give us freedom but often we only focus on benefit of that freedom: eternal life. We forget that freedom is ours for the taking TODAY. Right here. Right now. Unlike what…
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“If you succeed in justifying your negative emotions, you get to keep them.” Tommy Newberry. The choice is yours. The choice is mine. I can keep saying, “I can’t,” or I can try and fail and learn and grow. I can keep blaming or justifying or dwelling on the negative or I can choose to replace those thoughts with thoughts…
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Did you wake up on the wrong side of your bed? Or did your kids? Feeling discouraged or grumpy about something in particular? Stressed with too much to do today? Frustrated? You need a 2-minute mindset reset!! Stop – whatever you’re doing, you can at least take 2 minutes and STOP. Take a few deep breaths. This will calm you…
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Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery. – J.K. Rowling. It was a hard pill for me to swallow when a friend said to me, “It is what it is…now you must learn to love what is.” Love what is?!? But I hate this thing, this feeling, this circumstance, this situation. That…
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I have struggled to find confidence my entire life. I know you may see me singing on stage at church or talking on videos or instastories all day long. But when it comes to walking in a room or worrying what others think and, ahem, assuming they think the worst, this has been a real and debilitating thing in my…
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