Have you tried being grateful AND prepping your house to feed thirty people? It is a challenge. Are you in the midst of Holiday Season prep? We are already starting the list of chores. The bathrooms are getting cleaned, random, forgotten piles are being sorted and put away, and the porch is getting cleaned again!…
How Borrowing Someone Else’s Words About My Value Helped Shape My New Body Image Funny story, yesterday I went shopping for jeans, right in the middle of this article. Talk about getting checked to see if you are practicing what you are preaching. I have made a lot of progress. Most notably revealed by the…
We all had our Holiday events and I hope you had chance to practice gratitude and truly step back and love the people around you. So the follow up question is, What would you change? The best thing about Christmas being right around the corner from Thanksgiving is the fact that we can do some…
Do you want to increase the level of gratitude in your home, marriage and relationships? In the previous post we talked about the terrible cost of ingratitude and how it effects our lives. I asked readers to identify if they were living with the effects of ingratitude? Is it yourself that tends to respond negatively to…
This month you hear more about gratitude than any other time of the year. With the holidays around the corner it is a great way to give us pause and go into the gift giving season with better motives. Gratitude is not a natural human response. When we are young we expect our needs to be…
Tying ourselves with others through talismans, reminders, treasures, or gifts is a way of reinforcing the bond of friendship even though distance may separate.
There is a danger we face as Christians. It is the danger of forgetting who we are.
But the people of Israel walked on dry ground through the sea, the waters being a wall to them on their right, and on their left. Exodus 29:14 Today I am reminded that the same water that threatens to suffocate and smother me, did not destroy me. Instead of bringing death, troubled seas opened up…