75 - How to Choose a Perfect Word of the Year for 2023
The Uncommon Normal with Twyla Franz
Release Date: 12/13/2022
204 - How to Stop Nitpicking and Rest in Acceptance (Enneagram 1s)
The Uncommon Normal with Twyla Franz
To you, exhausted from trying so hard to be perfect, weighed down by feeling worthless, worrying about what others think of you–let’s take a big exhale together. It’s time for a trade: The intrusive anxiety, the dreaded insufficiency, and the battle in your mind–for acceptance that doesn’t hinge on your perfection. Links mentioned: To learn more about Enneagram 1s–including what we appreciate most about you, how you can use your strengths to mirror God’s grace to your neighbors, and (for the rest of us) how we can best missionally love the Enneagram 1s we know–grab...
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203 - Surprise! You’re the One God Wants Next to Him
The Uncommon Normal with Twyla Franz
Some days you get in a slump and maybe you don’t truly believe there’s a place for you. You dismiss somewhere way down inside that God would actually want you next to Him. That He seeks your presence. Then you read John 14:2 and it hits hard: you are in the front of God’s mind. You’re not a last thought. Not unfilled potential. Not looked over in the slew of everyone else. Links mentioned: 1. To get a short, doable tip in your inbox every week to help you get to know your neighbors, sign up 2. Read the written version of this episode
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202 - How to Get Your Voice Back When You Lose It
The Uncommon Normal with Twyla Franz
Underneath my slouched posture and avoidance of eye contact was the belief that my voice didn’t matter. I left speaking up to those whose words were more effortless, less awkward. I thought that meant they mattered more. Perhaps you can relate. You dismiss the value of your voice because someone else can articulate it better, say it with more confidence, or couch it in more credibility. You second-guess, self-critique, self-sabotage. Because, like me, you struggle to believe, way down deep, that your voice also matters. Links mentioned: 1. To get a short, doable tip in your inbox...
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201 - The Best Thing to Do While You’re Waiting
The Uncommon Normal with Twyla Franz
We want there to be good reason for the delay. Want to know the waiting will one day make sense. Want assurance that God’s best will be worth all the angst and surrender. Links mentioned: 1. To get a short, doable tip in your inbox every week to help you get to know your neighbors, sign up 2. Read the written version of this episode
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200 - 5 Ways to Overcome Distraction for the Chronically Unfocused
The Uncommon Normal with Twyla Franz
I think of how less light around me works almost like blinders on a horse. Blinders are the piece on a horse’s harness that blocks their vision–not entirely, but so they see only what’s straight ahead. It’s a built-in focus mechanism. One I often resist but deeply need. Links mentioned: 1. To get a short, doable tip in your inbox every week to help you get to know your neighbors, sign up 2. Read the written version of this episode 3. Get the playlist of my favorite worship songs . 4. Get a FREE Names of God Phone Wallpaper .
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199 - 5 Secrets for Seeing the People You Often Miss
The Uncommon Normal with Twyla Franz
I was a keep-to-myself neighbor for most of my life. A scarcely-seen neighbor. A door-locked-unless-I-expected-guests neighbor. But I was also a lonely neighbor. I thought it was normal to drive across town every time you wanted to meet up with a friend. To close the garage door as soon as you pull inside and gaze at the ground when you walk to the mailbox. To nod a cordial hello if you see a neighbor but not step inside their house, not hoist their kid onto your knee as they stir something on the stove, not leak tears in living rooms and share meals in front yards and welcome your house to...
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198 - How to Become Excited About Reading Your Bible
The Uncommon Normal with Twyla Franz
And I want to know his secret. What compels the psalmist to pursue the teachings of God regardless of the hour? To chase after God’s will with urgency and love God Himself wholeheartedly? It’s not perfection, because the unnamed author of this Psalm openly admits failure to fully follow God’s decrees. “Oh, that every part of my life would remain in line with what You require!” he exclaims (v. 5). I take another sip from the not-round rim of my mug, grateful a deep love of God’s Word doesn’t hinge on my ability to live a holy, impeccable life. With all its dents and...
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197 - For the People Watchers, EavesDroppers, and Hope Devoid
The Uncommon Normal with Twyla Franz
Just imagine what might happen if the words we say breathed life, ignited hearts, and amplified hope when they were overheard! If what came out of our mouths was laced in humility and grounded in our God-identity. If our words repaired breaches and lent hope and lit a candle for someone else. Someone listening over our shoulder, curious how to trust God when life doesn’t make sense. Someone observing at a distance how we become the hands and feet of the Lord we say we love. Someone with doubts and no idea what to do with them. Someone who feels unlovable. Someone misunderstood. Someone...
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196 - The Truth About Vulnerability: The Grace-Lined Protection We Need
The Uncommon Normal with Twyla Franz
We get both–the imposter syndrome and the subtly-inflating self-impression. We shame and doubt ourselves, wondering who we are to think God can use us for His grand purpose. And we’re also guilty of esteeming ourselves too highly, as if our value has anything to do with us and not the One who breathed undeserved worth into our lungs just because He loves us so. Links mentioned: 1. To get a short, doable tip in your inbox every week to help you get to know your neighbors, sign up 2. Read the written version of this episode 3. by Ann Voskamp. 4. Get a FREE Names of...
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195 - How To Cultivate a Receptive, Growth-Friendly Heart
The Uncommon Normal with Twyla Franz
What if we let go of the “metrics-based growth” Jennifer Dukes Lee cautions will “[hurry] our hearts,” and lean instead into the two heart cultivators Jesus offers? Links mentioned: 1. To get a short, doable tip in your inbox every week to help you get to know your neighbors, sign up 2. Read the written version of this episode 3. Jennifer Dukes Lee's . 4. Get a FREE Names of God Phone Wallpaper .
info_outlineDo you choose a word for each year? Wait until January to think about it? Give up before you pick a word because it’s another decision and you don’t like making decisions?
Imagine if you already had your new word chosen before New Year’s Day? You’ve written it on your mirror, a sticky note on your dashboard, or on your phone wallpaper. You’re expectant and ready.
Now, let’s talk about how to get there.
Links mentioned:
- Joyce Meyer’s scriptural affirmations.
- FREE list of 200 missional living word of the year ideas.
- Grab a FREE sneak peek of Cultivating a Missional Life: A 30-Day Devotional to Gently Help You Open Your Heart, Home, and Life to Your Neighbors.
- Order or leave a book review on Amazon.
- View the written version of this episode.