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Am I Doing What Matters Most Right Now?

May 14, 2020
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| Categories: Coaching Yourself, Questions, Uncategorized

“It’s time to cuddle the puppy, Mommy.”

It’s the first thing my daughter wants to do with me in the morning. Morning cuddles with our dog. My daughter’s wake up time happens to be my most productive time. I’m wired to think deeply about one thing at a time. Being called to go back and forth between projects and activities is not how I function the best. Is it how anyone does?! I have the feeling some people may roll with it more easily than me, though. It’s taken me years to be…

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If You Have a Dream

October 20, 2016
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| Categories: Encouragement, Ministry and Serving, Spiritual Gifts

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I’m revisiting my dream of writing and reminding myself of the truths in this old post from last year…

Do you have a dream?

God has made you and molded you in your life circumstances for certain gifts, longings, desires and passions. Often times, these stir in our hearts and minds for years and months before we take real steps toward living them out.

I’ve had a longing to write and create pictures since I was a little girl.  I remember at about age four or five I would trace the pictures…

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Our Truest Identity: Living Stones

February 2, 2015
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| Categories: Who we are in Christ / Identity of a believer

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“As you come to Him, a living stone rejected by men but in the sight of God chosen and precious, you yourselves like living stones are being built up as a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.”               – 1 Peter 2:4-5

So often I equate the abundant Christian life to simply my personal relationship with Jesus: saying no to sin, yes to the freedom I have not to sin, turning toward Jesus…

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Divine Design Part 2

August 21, 2013
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| Categories: Divine Design

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In his book, The Call, Os Guinness beautifully defines the term calling basically as this:

Calling is the truth that God calls us to himself so decisively that everything we are, everything we do, and  everything we have is invested with a special devotion and dynamism lived out as a response to his summons and service.

Do you believe that you were designed by a unique God for a unique purpose?

Last week, I ended my Divine Design Pt. 1 post asking this question:

How do we now live as we grow…

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