4134 Blaze Your Trail Together
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When we get married, we bring dreams into the relationship. Some of those dreams we built as a couple, sitting across from each other at 2 a.m. talking about the life we wanted. Others we brought in on our own — dreams we had before we ever said "I do," goals we were chasing long before we had a ring on our finger. No matter where you are, you can still blaze your trail together. Here's what we tend to forget: marriage requires us to do life together. Not next to each other. Not around each other. Together. Desire to be supported and encouraged by other like-minded women? Join us at the . ...
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4133 Hear Me Out
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As parents, it's easy to lose sight of the goal. We stress about how good we are at this — replaying conversations, grading ourselves on tone, wondering if we handled the moment the "right" way. Somewhere in that pressure, we start believing our job is to have it all put together. So when we're handing our children the lessons we think they need, all we can hear in our own head is: hear me out. Because the last thing you want is your child shutting down your wisdom. You've lived what you're teaching. You've got the scars, the hindsight, the answers. You want to be heard — and that want...
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4132 Been There, Dump That
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You know the phrase, "Been there, done that." It's the verbal shrug we give when something no longer impresses us, no longer scares us, or no longer has anything left to teach us. To put a twist on the phrase to serve you better, why not enhance it: been there, dump that. Because here's something we never sit around and talk about when it comes to growth — it's not just about picking things up. Those new habits, new skills, new mindsets. Growth is just as much about what you're willing to put down. Desire to be supported and encouraged by other like-minded women? Join us at the . The...
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4131 Fear Isn't Who You Are
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Fear rarely shows up looking like fear. It shows up looking like "that's just who I am." It shows up as "I've always been this way." It shows up in the sentence that starts with "I'm not the kind of person who..." — and ends right before you find out you actually could have been. That's the sneaky part. Fear doesn't usually announce itself. It just quietly moves into the identity you've built for yourself, unpacks its bags, and starts paying rent. And over time, you stop noticing it's even there. You just think it's you. But fear isn't who you are. We all carry a version of ourselves...
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4130 Find the Gift in the Grind
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Some days don't ask permission. They just show up — loud, full, and relentless. The alarm goes off before you're ready. The inbox is already three messages deep before your coffee's even brewed. Somewhere between the meeting that ran long and the errand you forgot, you look up and realize the whole day has passed you by, and you can barely remember a single moment of it. This is the trap of a busy life: we get so wrapped up in doing that we forget to notice we're living. And in that forgetting, we lose something precious — the ability to see the good that's been sitting right in front...
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4129 Why Your Hustle Needs A Pause
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How many times have you pushed through the day fueled by caffeine and sheer will, only to realize by evening your decisions are fuzzy, your energy is gone, and your brain feels like mush? Your decisions are only as good as the sleep you got the night before. Your actions are only as strong as the rest of your body took the day before. Your productivity hinges on how still and quiet your mind has been — not how fast it’s been spinning. It's no wonder why your hustle needs a pause. The culture today glorifies nonstop motion as the only path to success. But the consequence is a society on the...
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4128 The Room is Never Empty
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There's a version of faith that lives in a building. You walk in on Sunday, sing the songs, hear the message, maybe even feel something shift in your chest. Then you walk out, get in the car, and by Tuesday afternoon you're back to running your week on your own steam — making decisions, carrying stress, fighting battles — like you're the only one in the room. You know that gap between the sanctuary and the rest of your life is where a lot of us quietly live. Not because we stopped believing, but because we started treating God like a scheduled appointment instead of a constant presence....
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4127 Are You Sleeping with a Stranger?
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People change. That’s a truth we all accept, or at least give a nod to in passing, yet rarely sit with deeply. Time moves on, circumstances evolve, and the very essence of who we are shifts in subtle and profound ways. So why does it feel so strange with the person you share a bed with—are you sleeping with a stranger? When you lie down beside your spouse tonight, take a moment to ask yourself: Are you sleeping beside the person you once knew, or a stranger who lives in their skin? Desire to be supported and encouraged by other like-minded women? Join us at the . Change Is the Constant...
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4126 You're Not Lost, You're Just Sightseeing
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Life doesn’t come with a map. It twists and turns, throws detours at us, and sometimes drops us in places we never expected. This reality hits even harder when you’re raising kids—because now you’re not just navigating your own path; you’re guiding little explorers through their own confusing journeys. Overwhelm can take over, leaving you with questions: “Am I doing this right? Are we lost?” But the thing is that you’re not lost; you’re just sightseeing. When you’re sightseeing, you don’t panic because you’re off-course. You pause. You take in the landscape. You explore...
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4125 It's Okay to Look Back
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Looking back at your past is natural. It’s part of being human. We reflect on where we came from, what we’ve endured, and how we’ve grown. But there’s a line between glancing at your history and living inside it. Be careful how long you hang out with your past. Like Doris Roberts said, “It’s okay to look back, just don’t stare.” Some people get stuck in their past like it’s a favorite hangout spot—even a safe one. They replay old mistakes, clutch grudges, or drown in regrets. Desire to be supported and encouraged by other like-minded women? Join us at the . This isn’t...
info_outline“Turn your eyes upon Jesus, look full in His wonderful face, and the things of earth will grow strangely dim in the light of His glory and grace.” — Helen H. Lemmel, 1922
Most of us know that moment. The ground beneath us feels less solid than it did yesterday. A diagnosis that changes everything. A relationship that fractures without warning. A door that closes with a finality we weren’t prepared for. A season of waiting so long it begins to feel less like patience and more like abandonment.
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In those moments, the world offers noise — advice, distraction, hustle, worry. But Scripture offers something different. It offers a place to look.
And what I want to explore today isn’t a list of things you need to do when life gets hard. It’s something better than that. It’s what God does when you can’t.
He Goes In With You
There’s a passage in Isaiah 43 that I keep coming back to. God is speaking to Israel — a people worn down by exile and silence — and He says this:
"Fear not, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by name, you are mine. When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and when you pass through the rivers, they will not sweep over you." — Isaiah 43:1–2
Notice what He doesn’t say. He doesn’t say if you pass through the waters. He says when. God is not surprised by the season you’re in. He knew it was coming long before you did. And the promise He makes isn’t that you’ll avoid the deep water — it’s that He goes in with you.
That is not a small thing. That is everything.
He Moves Toward You in the Storm
When the disciples were caught in a storm on the Sea of Galilee, these were experienced fishermen — men who knew how bad a storm could get. And they were terrified. The boat was getting swamped. And then Jesus came walking across the water toward them and said:
"Take courage! It is I. Don’t be afraid." — Matthew 14:27
He didn’t say, “Here’s what you should do.” He said, It is I. His presence was the answer. Not a strategy, not a plan, not a formula. Him.
When you are in the storm and you can’t do anything, God is not waiting for you to figure it out. He is already moving toward you.
He Is Familiar With Your Pain
One of the most stabilizing truths in all of Scripture is that Jesus didn’t watch our suffering from a safe distance. He entered it. He wore it.
"He was despised and rejected by mankind, a man of suffering, and familiar with pain." — Isaiah 53:3
Familiar. That word deserves to sit with you for a moment. Jesus is not unfamiliar with your fear. He is not unfamiliar with your grief, your betrayal, your sleepless nights, or your unanswered prayers. He wept at a tomb (John 11:35). He sweat drops of blood in the garden the night before He died (Luke 22:44). He cried out from the cross, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” — and meant it in His body and His soul.
So when you wonder whether God understands what this feels like — He does. He went there. He went all the way to the bottom of the dark.
And He didn’t stay there.
The K.I.S.S. ~ Turn your eyes upon Jesus!
He Guards What Fear Is Trying to Break
Paul wrote the letter to the Philippians from prison. He didn’t know how his story would resolve. And yet he testified to something that had nothing to do with his circumstances:
"Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus." — Philippians 4:6–7
Guard is a military word. It means to stand watch, to hold a position, to protect. Paul is saying that God’s peace — not peace you manufacture, not peace that requires resolution first — will stand guard over the very place fear is trying to break in: your heart and your mind.
And notice, this peace doesn’t arrive when the circumstances change. It arrives in every situation. Including the one you’re in right now.
He Pioneered the Trail Through
The writer of Hebrews was writing to a community under real pressure — people who had lost property, faced public shame, and were tempted to walk away from their faith entirely. His counsel wasn’t a strategy. It was a direction:
"Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of faith." — Hebrews 12:2
Pioneer. He went first. He blazed the trail through suffering and out the other side. He is not asking you to go somewhere He hasn’t already been.
And perfecter — He finishes what He starts. Your faith, your story, your life — none of it will be left half-done. He completes it.
He Is With You. Always.
The last words Jesus spoke before He ascended were not addressed to people who had everything figured out. They were spoken to a ragged, still-uncertain group of disciples who were still processing all of it. And He said this:
"And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age." — Matthew 28:20
Always. Not when your faith feels strong. Not when your circumstances cooperate. Not when you’ve managed to pray the right words. Always. Right now, in whatever you’re sitting in today.
Isaiah 26:3 promises that God keeps in perfect peace those whose minds are steadfast — those who keep looking at Him rather than rehearsing what they fear. Not because steadfastness earns peace, but because Jesus is genuinely worth looking at. And He doesn’t look away from you.
Whatever is unresolved in your life right now. Whatever is heavy. Whatever you’ve been trying to fix and can’t — He’s already there. He’s already working. He’s already holding what you cannot hold.
That is what it means to turn your eyes upon Jesus. Not to try harder. But to look up, and find that He has been looking at you the whole time.
“I lift up my eyes to the mountains — where does my help come from?
My help comes from the Lord, the Maker of heaven and earth.” — Psalm 121:1–2
"Be present. Be incredible. Be YOU!!!"
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