Tag: new seasons
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You don’t grow from easy-seasons of growth and change
No matter the season, every season is a season to grow—even seasons of dying and death. If you study nature (and you should because God created a perfect natural order that works beautifully when we don’t tamper with it), you find that death is required for life to take place. A seed of any kind…
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Tis the season for FORGIVENESS
God has had me in a season of #forgiveness. I have been reliving some very ugly experiences—things that people who “love” me said and did without apologies or even remorse (like they believe they are right to this day), how I ended up where I ended up so far from home and dreams, the shame…
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Kindness, Clarity, and Encouragement – #6
I am a follower of introspectives. I like people who think deeply about things—especially when the wisdom of God flows through their thought process. Pastor Hart Ramsey is one of them. I’ve copied the remainder of the text below; click the link under the image above for the original or in the text below to…
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“Things I Left Behind” : A Year End Reflection
“Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.” Philippians 3:13-14 KJV Transformation is like a glacier: what…
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There is no “new year, new me”
I have not waited to begin the slow and steady process of being myself. I’ve shed all the people, shed all the things, shed the need for validation, shed every tear I could muster, shed broken belief systems, shed expecting anything from ANYBODY but God, shed expecting miracles to fall from the sky. I have…
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Hold Onto Yourself, Honey
Some days it is harder than others. The loneliness and regret overwhelm you with their weightiness, locking you into sadness so complete that you conjure story lines of sandy beaches and distant locales to steel yourself. To keep from losing it completely. You burrow down deep into your secret self, mantras meaningless and tears abundant…
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Make RIGHT NOW Be “Your Year“
You know what I’ve noticed? Around this time every year, folks start to post about how this year has been tough, but [next year here] is gone be their year! That this year (like the one before it and the one before that) taught them about relationships and family and friends and enemies, and that…