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In need of heart surgery?
Now, I’m not talking about the type of surgery that comes from a heart attack, I’m talking about your heart of heart. The real deep part of you that feels and hurts and loves. Heart surgery can come by surprise. Sometimes you need it for past hurts or traumas that you have been dealing with unconsciously. Sometimes it happens with new wounds or fear you’re dealing with currently. Recently I’ve been in need of heart surgery. I don’t deal well with stress and I have been plastered with it. Everyday something new happened that I had to deal with. I was also dealing with anger and feeling misunderstood/not heard. Those…
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Winning the war with yourself
Some days it’s hard to move. It’s hard to get going, to work or eat or take care of yourself, let alone anyone else. Some days it’s not easy to be you. Today felt like one of those days. It was a crawl back in bed and not get up unless I have to day. It wasn’t just the sadness weighing me down, it was something else too. A part of me didn’t want to try. I was given some wisdom, to spend time with God. But I didn’t want to do that. It was too hard to even try. So I fell asleep. The importance of sleep has probably…
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Keeping your hope
There’s been some crazy things happening. It feels like hit after hit of disappointment. Sometimes nothing goes the way we think it will. Sometimes it feels like nothing is going right. It can be hard to put our trust in God during these times. But that’s the best time to trust in him. If we have conditions on our trust, is it true trust when it comes to God? When it’s hard to trust that means there is fear holding you back, fear of what’s to come. So we must hope have hope. Hope is important. What you place your hope in is most important. Looking at what has disappointed…
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Joy despite the circumstances
Today we need JOY! Today we need to have HOPE! Today is your day for BREAKTHROUGH! Today we will claim the good! No matter what we are going through we can know that God is on our side. Let’s claim joy today. Circumstances have been tough lately but God is good. God is the same today, yesterday and forever. Just because situations change, it doesn’t mean God does! God cares for you. He cares about your wellbeing, mentally and physically. Today let’s take a deep breath and trust what he says is truth and is good.
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Faith in the hard times
This year has been full of surprises. Full of let Downs and Pain. There’s been good too. Sometimes we have to search for the good things. Through the bad we must have faith there will be good again. It may take some time. The world never revolves around our clocks. Today, the bad weighed heavily over me. I couldn’t feel anything. I left destruction every where I went. So I stopped and cried. “God please forgive me for not having faith at this moment.” That’s what I said. God doesn’t leave you just because you’ve given up it you’ve given in. He sees you where you are and meets you…
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Taking advantage of your time
We all have heard it, time is precious. We never know what’s going to happen next. A girl I follow on Instagram, her friend, died in a car accident. She was 19 years old and had a baby. Crap happens to all of us. No one is free from struggles and tribulations. It’s okay to use those tribulations as inspiration to do what you love. It’s okay to adjust your life for yourself. By this I mean, it’s okay to not do something because you’re not good at it or you don’t want to do it. I realized a few years ago that I didn’t have to be good at…
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Separation from bitterness
If you are dealing with anger and resentment in your heart it’s time to address it. You did not deserve to be treated the way you have been. You deserve respect and healthy boundaries. When we take the time to separate ourselves from the bitterness we feel we allow love to come in. Releasing bitterness is extending grace. Not just to the person or event that caused you bitterness but to your own heart. Bitterness robs you of joy. It robs you of friendships, relationships, love, peace. Forgiveness and grace bring about so much healing in the heart and mind. We have been called to love the unlovable and when…
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Letting Love In
In life we all go through stuff. We all have our own hurts and scars. Trauma and broken hearts can lead us to shy away from love. But love is not something to run away from or to keep hidden. It can be scary and hard to accept love when someone is trying to give it to you. You might be afraid of it. Afraid of getting hurt and losing something inside of you. But pure love is healing. Sometimes you just have to let people love you. Letting people love you doesn’t have to be big things. It can be accepting a gift or a coffee from a friend.…
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Hate Thanksgiving? Read this
We see the happy family in the movies and TV shows and think wow, I wish my thanksgiving could look like that. Holidays can be hard if you have an unconventional family or situation. But even in the midst of trauma and bad memories, we can still make the best of the holiday. We don’t have to go on hating the holidays. It’s typical to think of all the things we’re thankful for on thanksgiving, hence the “thank” part. So we can practice gratitude. Gratitude changes everything. You can go from hating your life to actually enjoying getting up in the morning. Sometimes you have to look up from the…
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Listening to God
It’s important to listen to what God tells you. Sometimes it’s something simple like, “turn off that TV show, it’s not okay.” I didn’t listen to God tonight. I watched a show. God said I shouldn’t. I kept watching it. The thing is it wasn’t an inherently bad show. It mentioned suicide, swearing, mentions of sex. But I am sensitive. At the end, a character died and it was a gruesome death. That’s what bothered me. That’s why I should have listened. Sometimes we think we know better than God. Like I did with that show, I thought, it’s okay, I’ll be fine. At the end I felt sick. To…