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July 31, 2019
Shine Brightly
What does it mean – to be a light in the darkness? What’s a practical way to let the light in you shine?
We have to shine brightly, because the less we shine, the lower the light, the longer the shadows.
The valley is Psalms 23 is only the valley of the SHADOW of death. All fear and lies are shadows of things that MIGHT happen but probably won’t. You see the huge shadows when you stand with your back to the sun, but if you face the sun and walk forward in light and truth, the shadows will remain at your back to eventually disappear.
All the devil has to pull you away from living in light and truth is fear and lies. You can choose which way to face.
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July 24, 2019
Your Value
It is not a woman’s job to make a man feel better about himself.
It is not a man’s job to make a woman feel better about herself.
The knowledge and belief of your value must come from within. It’s your responsibility alone to feel good about yourself.
Then when someone treats you with value, you can nod your head in agreement, because you know it’s true. When they don’t, it won’t faze you, because you know they just can’t see you clearly yet, and it’s not your job to clean their glasses.
Once you can give that to yourself, it is easy to spread the overflow and see the same value in those around you. You’ll find yourself treating everyone with kindness, respect, support, encouragement, and thoughtfulness … even on social media. 
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July 17, 2019
Women Want to Know They Are Enough
Brene Brown says women want to know they are enough, but go deeper and you’re asking, enough what? And we answer, enough everything. Which isn’t logical. No one is everything.
So then we come back to purpose and say, enough me. Which means we have to find out who we are before we can figure out and believe we are enough.
I think every wife, at some point, is afraid her husband got a raw deal with her. But it’s such a lie. We complete everything missing by being the other vital half of the team. We are made differently, and we have to embrace this set of differences so we can rest in bring us as_is. We are each a unique being, adding wholeness and completing the circle that makes marriage what it is. We can’t think we’re not enough. Ever. We are the other equally amazing half of the whole.
You. Are. Enough.
Note: Even if you’re single right now, you’re always enough, no matter what daily life entails. It just shocked me that marriage seemed to make that fear of not being enough worse when so many women seek it out as the solution. No matter what we do, we add to it, so ultimately it’s up to us to value our very being wherever we are and whoever we are with–friends, work groups, fun groups, etc.
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July 10, 2019
The Healing Power of Sound
There have been a number of studies done lately on the healing power of sound. Specific sound waves targeted at tumors can sometimes destroy them. https://www.theguardian.com/…/ultrasound-cancer-research-hi…
One device “listens to the autistic child’s brainwaves to create personalized sounds (binaural beats) designed to stimulate the reduction in the user’s Delta brainwaves.”
If a person is sick, the microorganisms in the blood will play a type of tune that highlights that things are out of whack, alerting the need for testing.
Each person’s blood has a song too. If you apply a note to each specific protein in your DNA, it can sound something like this: http://www.reverbnation.com/open_graph/song/29100215.
This has also been done with things from nature, so it would then make sense that “even the rocks cry out.”
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July 3, 2019
God’s Support System
Sometimes my friends go through particularly hard times. I often wonder about God’s support system when I watch the struggle and the lack and the hopelessness and fear and doubt that comes creeping in. But God is still good.
We are all in the middle of God’s wonderful design for our lives, even in the most difficult times, but it doesn’t feel like it when life is so hard, when every day is yet another morning to try and make things better, to get better, to pay another bill, to do enough, to be enough.
But then, that’s where the lesson is.
God gently moves us from a place of self-preservation to one of self-dedication to him. He knows what we need. He knows what he needs. He needs people who aren’t living in a place of fear anymore. He’s here; he’s right in the middle of our gloriously messy lives.
Because he’s here, everything is already okay.
And as for his support system — that falls on those of us ready to help, which should be all of us. If you have an extra smile tucked away, $5, a word of encouragement, a prayer, a follow-up, time to care, offer it.
If you’re scrambling to survive, ask for help. Most of us aren’t so prophetic we automatically know you have rent to pay.
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June 26, 2019
Not Growing Spiritually?
When you feel like you are not growing spiritually, it’s easy to look at it a religious way. You could say you don’t make your 30 minutes of Bible study and prayer a priority, therefore you’re not growing, but the reality is that spiritual growth comes from being with God, just as a marriage grows with the give and take of life, facing trials together, holding each other tightly when we think we are about to drown, listening and valuing each other, and doing loving things for each other all the time.
In the same way, I don’t think we can grow spiritually without having ongoing chat with God in our head at all times and treating our relationship like a marriage – a seamless back and forth, give and take, serve and receive, listen and speak.
And this can’t just be between us and God, it has to include his body. We can’t grow without learning how to value and “see” and do life with those we are in community with.
Friendships grow by doing life together. We are friends of God, and we grow that friendship by doing life together with him and each other, side by side, me in him, him in me.
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June 19, 2019
Every Emotion that Festers
I think that with every emotion we have that festers, we’ll find a way to align with other people who revel in the same emotion or we’ll run in the other direction and do all we can to let it go. We do it with music, the movies we watch, the groups or religions we join.
So while some may point the finger at the music and the movies and the religions, hatred and anger attract hatred and anger.
Don’t blame the cesspools others jump into; think more about the communities angry/hurting individuals are in right now — communities of people who either love well and notice the hurting or individuals wrapped up in their own worlds.
Look beyond your bubble — today and every day. You could change more than just one life in doing so.
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June 12, 2019
An Interactive Journey with Jesus
St. Ignatius had a set of steps that enabled his followers to become closer to Jesus. One of them stood out to me as an interactive journey I could take—I would walk with Jesus through the Gospel of John as if I were there, using all five senses—sight, smell, touch, hearing, taste.
The Beginning
It’s hot out here. The wind barely murmurs against my legs and the dust has clambered onto my toes like hoards of tiny spiders.
A man walks by. There’s something different about him—is it the way he holds his head? He looks up and catches my eyes. I am instantaneously struck with tears. No one has ever looked at me that way, this way that hooks my heart—I cannot breathe.
His smile reaches around me and the world slows for a minute. This man is the only one . . . the only one . . .
What am I looking for? Something in him pulls me forward. I want to be at his side. I feel life, hope, meaning. There is more . . . oh for the words of mortal man to describe . . .
Who can I tell? Who can I bring to the feet of this man? I can blubber about him, but I would sound like a fool. They must come into his presence.
There is something . . . there is more than just this man here.
He turns to me. “Your name—princess, queen—is perfect.” He sees me. He knows me. It makes no sense. Who am I? But when he says it I just know—I am who he says I am.
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June 5, 2019
Am I Enough?
What I find in conversation with most Christians is the prevailing questions underneath all their words:
Am I enough?
Do I matter?
Am I doing enough?
Does what I’m doing matter?
The fastest way to receive the truth to these questions is to stand in front of Jesus and ask him these questions. His presence is the best default switch into bringing us back into the heart of what matters — his heart for us and his heart for others through us.
Sometimes he’ll deflect back to us on the last two questions. We often know what we have time for vs. what we make time for; but when it comes to the first two questions, he’s never in any doubt. He never hesitates with his answers.
I made you exactly the way I wanted you.
How could you ever NOT be enough?
How could you ever NOT matter?
And when you trust him on this, somehow knowing you really ARE enough and you really DO matter is what then gives you the all-sufficiency and impetus you need to move forward with the next steps of your destiny. Every time.
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May 29, 2019
The Supreme Adventure
An adventure is, by its nature, a thing that comes to us. It is a thing that chooses us, not a thing that we choose.
Falling in love has been often regarded as the supreme adventure, the supreme romantic accident. In so much as there is in it something outside ourselves, something of a sort of merry fatalism, this is very true. Love does take us and transfigure and torture us. It does break our hearts with an unbearable beauty, like the unbearable beauty of music.
But in so far as we have certainly something to do with the matter; in so far as we are in some sense prepared to fall in love and in some sense jump into it; in so far as we do to some extent choose and to some extent even judge—in all this falling in love is not truly romantic, is not truly adventurous at all. In this degree the supreme adventure is not falling in love.
The supreme adventure is being born.
There we do walk suddenly into a splendid and startling trap. There we do see something of which we have not dreamed before. Our father and mother do lie in wait for us and leap out on us, like brigands from a bush. Our uncle is a surprise. Our aunt is, in the beautiful common expression, a bolt from the blue.
When we step into the family, by the act of being born, we do step into a world which is incalculable, into a world which has its own strange laws, into a world which could do without us, into a world that we have not made. In other words, when we step into the family we step into a fairy-tale.
– G.K. Chesterton
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