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Until very recently, I thought motivation came first. I’d clean when I felt motivated. Exercise when I felt motivated. Write when I felt inspired. I’d have the difficult conversation when I felt brave. I’d pray when I felt like I’d earned some time with God. Start “tomorrow.” The problem is that darn word. “Felt.” Tomorrows…
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I live in the United States…in the South. The real South. And if it isn’t already a known fact, I’ll be clear – we do things different down here. Our diets. The way we dress. Our accents and vocabulary. A “happy” in the South is a tiny gift – given “just because” – that makes…
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I am quicker to forgive other people than I am to forgive myself. If someone makes a mistake, I find myself wondering what he/she has been through, what he/she is carrying, what placed that person in his/her position. But when it’s me, the verbiage is different. How could you? You knew better. You ruined everything.…
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I plan. I’m a planner. It’s the execution part that stresses me out. Lists. Checked boxes. Bullet points. All neatly looped together with perfectly colored highlighters and my favorite pens. For a long time, I thought being productive meant crossing things off of that list. If I was constantly moving…answering emails, scrubbing counter tops, decluttering,…
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I’m 11 months into a personal growth journey. I started first with the goal to understand myself. My defense/coping mechanisms. My survival tactics. My interpretations of various events throughout my life. Basically…why am I the way that I am? Overlapping that was a goal to change the parts of myself that were intolerable. Destructive patterns,…
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Love. Joy. Peace. Patience. Kindness. Goodness. Faithfulness. Gentleness. Self-control. Matthew 7 and Luke 6 emphasize that a person’s actions – their “fruit” – reveal true character, just like a tree’s fruit identifies the tree. And when we consider “fruit,” we typically think about tangible, seeable things. A degree. A promotion. Weight loss. Debt paid off.…
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I can’t escape my own mind, and that has been a big problem lately. Not the overthinking itself, but the content. In an effort to pull myself away from an abstract headspace, I offer the following, less profound, possibly rhetorical question: “If you were an inanimate object, what would it be?“ My response(s)… A junk…
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I am finishing up the Old Testament. I am currently wrapping up the Books of the prophets. Last night, I studied Zephaniah and Haggai. Jeremiah – Why Judah fell. Lamentations – The grief after the fall. Ezekiel – Hope and restoration from exile. Daniel – Faithfulness in exile. Hosea – God’s pursuing love. Joel –…
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Since this month’s posts have centered around the “ordinary” that has become my life, I offer a breakdown of my normal weekday routine and explain where I can be found at any given moment during the day. 7:30 a.m. – I am usually awake, even if I can’t bring myself to climb out of bed…
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This last birthday has prompted me, subconsciously, to consider my 40th birthday. It is only when we become adults that we realize our parents were right…time really does fly. And I don’t want 39 to come and go without tracking certain goals that will improve the life I have now. Some are practical. Some are…
