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The Persistence of Hope
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I don’t consider myself an artist - not a very good one, anyway - but when Sunday’s message hits me between the eyes like it did yesterday, I pull out my journaling Bible and colored pencils and go to it.
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@pastorjohnk spoke about Nehemiah’s critics and how he managed to do something extraordinary - BUILD something extraordinary - despite everything they said to him.
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And the whole time I was listening I was thinking about this person or that person...and then it hit me: the critic I need to ignore to do MY extraordinary thing is MYSELF. I say things and taunt myself and make fun of myself and even threaten myself in a million ways, and I have a choice to make.
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I can listen to the million thoughts swirling in my head, letting myself get distracted to the point of never fulfilling the tasks God has set before me...
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...or I can get back on the wall and do the extraordinary things to which God has called me to right here in my ordinary life.
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#biblejournaling #journalingbible #artfortheheart #nehemiah #sundaysermonthoughts #wonthedoit
I’m thankful today for friends who’ll pull up a chair when I’m losing my mind with work and give me a healthy distraction for awhile. She wasn’t here long but it was just what I needed.
#community #friends #writerlife #amwriting #secretproject #tuesday
There’s something to be said for listening to your gut.
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Usually, for me, it means doing the opposite. With anxiety, my gut isn’t something I can trust. Anxiety tells my gut that it’s all bad and I should hide away and avoid the things that my heart says are good.
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My gut this morning said I should stay home from church. That the peopling would be too hard and the tears would flow embarrassingly freely and it all would be too much for my tender heart.
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But my heart...my heart wouldn’t let me do that. My heart pulled me out of the bed and toward my closet and pushed me out the door. So now I’m here, and trusting my heart that this is where I most need to be.
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#anxiety #depression #bipolardepression #generalizedanxiety #socialanxiety #followyourheart #ignoreyourgut #sunday
When was the last time you did something that made you say, “I can’t believe I’m doing this!”? When was the last time you thought, “Did I really do that?”?
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For me, yesterday. I was spending the day with my niece and she convinced me - somehow - to do one of those foot spa things with the fish. (They’re not what you think.) It was really fun, we laughed a LOT, and memories were made.
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Normal life doesn’t often afford us the opportunity to do things that far out of our routine comfort zone. I want to live in a way that makes the unusual, usual.
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Maybe that means spending time with young folks. Maybe that just means opening my eyes to what’s been around me the whole time. Either way, I like the feeling, and I like who I am when I do something unexpected. It’s worth pursuing.
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#nieces #teenagersandoldpeople #17and37 #comfortzone #liveunexpected @shelby.the.capricorn
It feels like freedom, this slowly becoming myself. It’s a freedom from all of the expectations I willingly placed on myself and all of the ways I betrayed the person God made me to be.
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It’s a lot of things, all happening as I approach my 38th birthday next month. It’s relief and joy and fun...and Converse, no mater the outfit. It took me this long to get here and I’m walking the path my way.
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#selfdiscovery #converse #chucks #youdoyou #idome #itsallgood #38willbegreat
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