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LET’S FIND JOY
It has been a crazy crazy past few months. Life has been challenging and unforgiving. I feel like I should be talking about depression and the deep sadness I’ve felt recently, BUT God wants to talk about JOY! It’s totally understandable to feel sadness. The sadness and depression you have been experiencing for almost year are totally valid. The causes for those feelings are real and you are seen in this time by a God who knows how you are feeling and is here to comfort you. It’s also totally okay to lean into goodness and seek kindness and something full of light. Today is the day the Lord has…
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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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Fear v. Hope
The difference between fear and hope is that fear is without love. You don’t feel fearful when you know you have someone who has your back with you. Struggles with anxiety are well known in this day and age. If you’ve ever felt fearful to do something but your friend is also fearful, if you go and do the feared activity to prevent your friend from being scared—you just combated your fear with love. “Perfect love casts out fear.” 1 John 4:18. God is perfect love. He can eradicate you from fear. Lift your fears to him. Lay them at his feet. He is a kind and listening father. God…
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Everything, yet nothing
It’s easy to think the world revolves around money since everything seems to have a cost. We buy all the fancy cars, houses, shoes or appliances. And if we can’t afford them we lust for them or take out loans. We strive for them. Once we get the car or the house or the wife or the kids we think we will be happy. But when we find get them we look for the next thing. It’s never enough, it never fulfills us. That’s because the things of this world can never fill the God sized whole in our hearts. You think of the Egyptian kings. When they died they…
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Seeking joy
It’s beginning to become winter time in the northern hemisphere, and with that the sun sets sooner and the days feels colder. With Christmas and Thanksgiving we have something to look forward too. But with the lack of sun, we naturally can start to feel sad. Vitamin D helps but what about the sadness that reaches deep into our souls? What do you do when your heart is broken or your spirit shaking? Placing your happiness in circumstances will always lead to disappointment. That’s why we place our hope in Jesus. Jesus is the ultimate healer of sadness and broken hearts. Jesus knows that life isn’t always about rainbows and…