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to encourage your heart and
add a lift to your step
75. How To Look Back To Move Forward
Today we are choosing to pause one more time before heading any further into 2023, to consciously and intentionally ask ourselves some questions about last year. Because truly, sometimes we look back to move forward. This is something I believe is vitally important in...
74. Happy 2023! How Are You Beginning This New Year?
Happy 2023! The new year is here! I hope you had wonderful holidays that brought you much joy and delight. Getting right to it today, how do you typically begin a new year? Do you set goals or resolutions? Do you choose a word for the year or maybe a Bible verse? Or...
73. How To Set Ourselves Up For The New Year
Well, here we are, the week between Christmas and New Year's. I hope you had a wonderful Christmas holiday, filled with joy, peace, and a whole lot of Jesus. Even though it was just a couple days ago, I pray the hope of Christmas will linger long in your life, and...
72. Christmas And Grief: How To Make It Through
I know what it’s like to grieve at Christmastime. You wonder how you're going to make it through, right? It was just five days before Christmas. My family and I were sitting in the first-row wooden church pew of the church I grew up in. The sanctuary before me was...
71. The Distraction of Hurry Says, “You Are Behind”
Hurry. Are you ever in one? Do you move fast, talk fast, listen fast, drive fast? Do you think fast, sleep fast, eat fast, scroll on your phone fast? Or do you feel like you’re constantly behind, and the only way you can catch up is if you hurry? The distraction of...
70. The Distraction of Stress Says, “Focus On The Overwhelm”
This is about the time in this season that I can get a little stressed. Christmas is a little less than three weeks away, and the distraction of stress affects many during the holiday season. Let's change that this year. I could feel the stress rising. Over the...