If things are so good where you are then why bother changing.” The change I need for my life exists for a reason. Discomfort pushes me to move from where I am to where I know I should be. Discontent prods me to step away from this moment into the possibilities of another. I look…
You should never be rude to God. It seems like obvious advice since He is God after all. And yet, I find myself making the choice to be rude to Him more times than I care to think. Just today, I chose to stay in bed even when I knew that God was waking me….
Change happens – I can be involved and active in its direction, or I can watch from the side as it moves and twists around me. Either way, change still happens. If I want to effect the change of my life, then I MUST show up. I will never have any say in my direction…
The path to encouragement can be easy when things are falling in order. Smiles fill my day when the sun shines, the flowers bloom, and everyone does what I need and expect. The struggle to walk out encouragement arrives about the time someone spills milk all over my new attitude. The times of struggle are…
I know that I can do it – but when I take an honest look at my life then I recognize that despite what I know, I am NOT doing very much. I listened to Bethany share with me about her journey and her incredible trust in God and I was convicted about my not…
He called me a liar, and I turned away with sadness in my heart. I had reached out. I had tried. He had rejected. All that I had left was prayer. And then he attacked my husband and called him incompetent. I shook my head with a heavier heart. We had tried. We had accepted…
We just want to have some reasonable choices made in this situation. That was the idea that was presented to me, and it was not presented in a way that was negative or hurtful. I took offense. How dare they stand there and tell me to make reasonable choices or to do things reasonable. Reasonable…
The time for change will always be now. I will never change for anyone again.” There were too many bruises and pain from the past. If there was something different someone wanted in me then he would just have to go somewhere else to find it. I was me and that was all that was…
You can go from procrastination to schedule when you take the simple step to make a schedule that works for you. Getting it done is as simple as just doing it. This concept began starting to make sense to me after almost thirteen years of marriage. I’ll admit I’m a procrastinator by nature and I…