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How to Make Big Life Decisions: What to Do When You Don’t Know What to Do
We’ve all been there-you have a big decision to make and you are feeling the pressure to make a decision quickly. These crossroads in life are familiar to most. Often, the road in which you choose could change your life. These decisions can come in the form of a big job change, a move to…
88 of My Favorite Fall Joys and How to Truly Embrace the Fall Season
Life can be overwhelmingly busy, which makes it so easy to gloss over simple yet meaningful gifts God has blessed us with that often fill our days. But if you really set your focus each morning to find and experience these beautiful blessings throughout your day, you will see how bountiful they truly are. I…
3 Types of Joy Stealers
1. Focusing on Other’s Blessings and Forgetting About Your Own “I’m too busy working on my own grass to notice if yours is greener.” Anonymous God has placed abundant blessings in each person’s life, but so often these blessings can be overlooked. Many of us are too concerned with other people’s blessings, and this leads…
If You’re Feeling Burnt Out, Stressed, or Irritable, Read this.
“Your life is the by-product of your lifestyle. By life I mean your experience of the human condition, and by lifestyle I mean the rhythms and routines that make up your day-to-day existence. The way you organize your time. Spend your money. There is a saying in business literature that I love: “Every system is…
4 Christian Books + Devotionals I’m Loving
Be still and know that I am God.(Psalm 46:10). My favorite way to start each day is to wake up early, sit with a cup of coffee, my journal, and prayer devotionals. It truly helps me prepare for each day, and I honestly feel like my days run so much smoother when I take quiet…
3 Steps to Spiritual Surrender
“There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens…” Ecclesiastes 3:1 Spiritually Surrendering I was talking with a friend of mine who just moved back after moving to the south with her husband and two kids. Her husband had gotten laid off right in the middle of Covid and…
Finding Moments of Transcendence in Your Everyday
The mystery that is life surrounds us. As we go about taking care of our responsibilities throughout the day, we can choose to take a few moments to be with what is greater than ourselves and revel in it (HuffPost). What is Transcendence in Simple Terms? What’s a moment you go back in time that…
The Realization that Changed My Life
“To realize that you are not your thoughts is when you begin to awaken spiritually” (Eckhart Tolle). This post may contain Amazon Affiliate Links (paid links). I was so upset. I sat down with my sister for lunch to tell her what was going on. I was actually pretty ashamed to verbalize what I had been…
A Step by Step Guide to Actually Make Your Dreams a Reality
Based on: You Are a Badass-How to Stop Doubting Your Greatness and Start Living an Awesome Life by Jen Sincero This post may contain Amazon Affiliate Links (paid links). “If you want to live a life you’ve never lived, you have to do things you’ve never done”. -Jen Sincero I am not kidding you, I am…
5 Powerful Steps Towards Truly Forgiving Someone
“Blessed are the merciful, for they shall receive mercy” (Matthew 5:7). We’ve all been there. Someone close to you did something to you that made you angry, upset, hurt, or sad. Maybe it was a one time offense, or perhaps it’s a hurt that’s replayed on a repeating cycle. We all have a choice on…
5 Bible Verses to Soothe a Broken Heart
This post is for those whose hearts have been shattered in two. For those who put on a brave face but are crumbling on the inside. For those who are weak and weary and find it next to impossible to get out of bed in the morning. For those who are experiencing pain beyond what…
3 Secrets to Complete and Utter Happiness
We live in a world of distractions. We have trained our eyes to look from one shiny thing to the next. But material goods will never satisfy us. We will always long for the next new shiny thing. Because of our infatuation with worldly things, we are often forgetting to seek the only one who…
3 Highly Effective Stress Relievers for Christians
“When anxiety was great within me, your consolation brought me joy” (Psalm 94:19). Stress and anxiety can come in many forms and sometimes you never know what could trigger it, leaving us always vulnerable to its trap. Jesus experienced his own anxiety and fear first hand when he came to us in human form. Because…
Quick Practices to Break the Habit of Complaining and Live a Life Full of Gratitude
“This is the day that the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it” (Psalm 118:24). There are days that I wake up a grump. The weather is dreary, the same mundane tasks seem endless, and I have a heavy head from a wakeful sleep the night before. Have you been there?…
The Alchemist Quotes: Finding Your Life’s Purpose
This post may contain Amazon Affiliate Links (paid links). I recently read the book The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho. It is a story about a shepherd named Santiago who leaves everything he knows to discover treasure in Egypt. During his quest, he learns many lessons but most importantly Santiago discovers the importance of listening to his…
How to Keep a Vibrant Prayer Life When You Have No Time
Very early in the morning, while it was still dark, Jesus got up, left the house and went off to a solitary place, where he prayed. (Mark 1:35) How much time do you have to spare for prayer? For me, it started with 10 minutes before I began getting ready for work and the kids…
Meaningful Coincidences
There I was in unfamiliar town in Wyoming, about to move into a house with strangers, hours away from anything or anyone I knew. My parents found a host family that was going to take me in while I completed my student teaching at an elementary school. I was so grateful for these sweet people,…
Jesus Take the Wheel
It took me a long time to let go of the steering wheel to my life. I wanted my life to go a certain way, a path I had already chosen without consulting with the Lord. I just flippantly made decisions I felt would suit me best in the moment. I took many wrong turns,…
Breaking Away From the Chains of Regret
“You, Lord, are forgiving and good, abounding in love to all who call to you.” Psalm 86:5 There are so many things I did in my past that I wish I could take back; Mistakes, embarrassments, resentments, all things that remind me of the far from perfect human I am. For many years, I would…
Daily Guidance
Whether you turn to the right or to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, “This is the way; walk in it” (Isaiah 30:21). Awareness of Jesus’ Presence Most mornings, I have my quiet prayer time in the morning where I begin my day feeling clear headed and energized. But so…
The Best Things in Life Are Free
Why spend money on what is not bread, and your labor on what does not satisfy? Listen, listen to me, and eat what is good, and your soul will delight in the richest of fare. Isaiah 55:2 Finding Joy in the Simple Things There is a huge misconception of the importance of money to live…
Release My Fears
Overwhelming Anxiety Recently, I have had extreme fear and anxiety watching and listening to the news. So much hate, division, and devastation. Many times, I have trapped myself in an anxiety filled state by engrossing myself in this destructive habit. Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offenses contrary to the…
Listening to God’s Gentle Calling
But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. James 1:22 There Are No Coincidences I pulled up to the grocery store and I noticed an older woman in a run-down van next to me. She was outside of her car talking on her phone. She looked frantic and upset. When I…
Carpe Diem
Command them to do good, to be rich in good deeds, and to be generous and willing to share. In this way they will lay up treasure for themselves as a firm foundation for the coming age, so that they may take hold of the life that is truly life. 1 Timothy 6:18-19 The Gift of Today I feel…
Pump the Breaks
Hot Mess There are some days I am what one would call a “hot mess”. On these days, I am running around like a mad woman. The tasks and chores on my to do list are overwhelming. The phone buzzing and ringing is making me even more spastic. I start putting pressure on myself to…
The Armor of God
Finally, be strong in the Lord and in his mighty power. Put on the full armor of God, so that you can take your stand against the devil’s schemes. For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly…
Soaking in the Simple Things
He called a little child to him, and placed the child among them. And he said: “Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.” Matthew 18:3 Be More like Little Children Have you ever observed a baby when you give them an…
Discovering God Through Precious Time Spent
“Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest” Matthew 11:28 Morning Bliss One of my favorite things to do to spend time with God is sit outside in the early morning during the spring and summer with a cup of coffee and my prayer journal. I think…
What’s God’s Will for Me?
But let all those that put their trust in thee rejoice: let them ever shout for joy, because tho defendest them; let the also that love thy name be joyful in thee.” Psalm 5:11 Achieving a Fruitful Life God placed you on this earth for a very specific reason. He wants you to achieve many…
