
Announcing... Graceology ❤️
Welcome 2021- and bring on the grace! Announcing... Graceology. I'll be moving nearly all of my activity over here. I so hope you will consider joining us.
Welcome 2021- and bring on the grace! Announcing... Graceology. I'll be moving nearly all of my activity over here. I so hope you will consider joining us.
The challenge- to simplify the entire bible narrative from the beginning of time to now into a video, and make it less than 30 minutes long. Challenge accepted- PLUS, I managed to make my cowlick stand straight up the whole time.
We can embrace suffering and use it as a platform for flourishing in God's grace. Twenty five years of farming potatoes has underscored this vital truth...
I am not creative with my workouts. In fact, I like to do exactly the same routine with little to no variation. Boring.
It was dusk and I was in my pajamas, my arms wrapped around a rose bush in the front yard. I heard my son’s truck pull into the driveway.
I think he was tired from work, because he didn’t even blink as he passed me on the porch. Plus, he knows I'm a little eccentric anyway.
I've heard this message several different ways over the last few weeks-
*Our thoughts can be a source of life or death*
About 50,000 thoughts run through our heads on the average day.
(And why they won’t quite do the trick)
The following are some of the basic stress-coping strategies you’ve probably heard over the last few weeks.
How you view yourself (your sense of identity) is directly tied to how you view God.
Do you see yourself as beautiful, confident, courageous, and made in the image of God?
The nemesis of all social anxiety sufferers is Post Event Processing (PEP). We have a social interaction- and then when it's over we replay it, examining our words and actions. This is always done with a judgmental slant- as in:
Anybody else get a little overwhelmed during the holiday shopping season? My thought is- how can I adequately express how deeply I love my people- through a gift, or something I make or do? There is no gift big enough (or at least- not one I can afford!)- to communicate all my love.
I recently watched a documentary on Warren Jeffs, former president of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. It was horrifying and left me sick to my stomach.