On Change
Change is an inevitable part of life and a hard pill to swallow at times. Here I provide encouragement to all going through a season of change.
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Intentional Gift-Giving: The Benefits of In-Person Christmas Shopping
I find there is something about the physicality of moving through the store, shopping cart wobbling ahead of me down the aisle, looking at the real item sitting on the shelf that aids in the creativity of gift-giving.
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Transitions and Getting Back to Work After a Break
But like most Monday mornings I find myself doing more meandering and less work, more feeling lost and less living in my purpose. Perhaps my time away awakened more within me than I realized. Maybe work is not the thing that defines me, rather it is the expression of a work happening in me.
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The Seventh Month of Rest: Why taking a sabbatical leads back to Jesus
Sabbatical is a leave of absence from your regular work. It’s a practice of sabbath on a larger scale than we typically do on the weekend.
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Soul Minimalism as a Pathway out of People-Pleasing
Becoming a soul minimalist is a pathway out of the people-pleasing mindset and helps put us back in connection with ourselves on a soul level
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4 Reasons to Go Outdoors Today
My earliest memory of the freedom of independence was flying down the sloping hill opposite our little cul-de-sac in East Tennessee on my bike. There were two hills, actually, facing each other. One ran from our neighbor’s house down to the bottom of our cul-de-sac, and the other was our Everest on the opposite side of the street. Riding a…
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What I’m Leaving Behind in 2021: Top 5 Takeaways
2020’s rampant isolation provided the fertile ground we needed to learn more about ourselves. Albeit a learning experience many of us would rather not have gone through, I discovered five key takeaways I’ll take with me into 2021. 1. The first thing I’m letting go of in 2021 is the ‘getting it all done’ mentality. I love planners that allow…
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Linking arms and ditching the New Year’s resolution comparison
What’s one thing you can count on each and every New Year? We make our list of resolutions, changes, or goals we swear we’ll actually accomplish this year. It’ll be different than all those other years before. I won’t give up this time. Then that day swings around again. January 17, the day all our resolutions are flushed right out…