4149 Overflow with Hope
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When you feel like all you're doing is running away from or toward all the things, it's hard to find joy and peace in life. You can get down and out about your circumstances, and all hope feels lost. But as Paul says in Romans 15:13, "May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit." Have you ever had one of those seasons where it feels like you're just running? Running toward the next thing on your list. Running away from the thing you don't want to face. Running in circles because you're not even sure...
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4148 Look For Something To Work With
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There's a moment in every marriage where you have to make a choice. You can stand there replaying every missed pass — every time your spouse came up short, every promise that got fumbled, every "we'll get to it" that never got to anything. Or you can do what the good ones do when the clock is running out. You can look for something to work with. Think about what you do now. Are you one who focuses on what doesn't work? Or are you willing to see what's possible? Desire to be supported and encouraged by other like-minded women? Join us at the . #RelationshipBuilders #CreateYourNow...
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4147 Never Miss A Beat
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Parenting is a never-ending, rhythmic song that plays over and over again. Some of the melodies are soothing to the heart — a sleepy child curled into your shoulder, a shared laugh over something silly at the dinner table, a "thank you, Mom" that comes out of nowhere and undoes you a little. But many more of the notes disrupt the nervous system. The 2 a.m. cries. The slammed doors of the teenage years. The days when you've given everything and it still doesn't feel like enough. However you hear it, you can't run from the most important responsibility in your life. Never miss a beat. Parents,...
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4146 The Circle Isn't Wasted
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There is a particular kind of tired that comes from walking in circles. You look up and realize you have passed this same tree, this same doubt, this same conversation with yourself, more times than you can count. You are moving; your legs ache to prove it, but the scenery refuses to change. And somewhere in that repetition, you hope that the circle isn't wasted. Because the real question, the one that keeps you up at night, is "does any of this matter if I don't even know where I am?" Desire to be supported and encouraged by other like-minded women? Join us at the . #Inspiration...
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4145 Just Because Life Takes An Unexpected Turn
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Life doesn't always unfold the way we planned. One day the road looks clear, and the next, it curves somewhere we never saw coming. Unexpected turns can leave us feeling disappointed, confused, or uncertain about what is happening in our world and what God is doing in the middle of it. But here is what remains true even when everything else feels shaky: God is never surprised by the path ahead. Just because life takes an unexpected turn, God was not caught off guard, and He is not scrambling to figure out what to do next. "For I know the plans I have for you," declares the Lord in...
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4144 Keep Walking When the Miles Feel Long
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There is a particular kind of tired that has nothing to do with sleep. It's the tired that comes from carrying a dream for longer than you expected to carry it, from praying the same prayer for the hundredth time, from showing up to the same unfinished work day after day and wondering if today is any different from yesterday. If you're in that kind of tired right now, know that you are not stalled. You are in the middle. And the middle is where most of life actually happens. So keep walking when the miles feel long. We tend to picture progress as a straight, visible line — one clear step...
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4143 You Didn't Come This Far to Come This Far
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A journey lasts a lifetime. It requires a chosen mindset, intentional thoughts, and actions that put an exclamation point to movement. Not a comma. Not a question mark. An exclamation point—a declaration that you meant to keep going. As you travel the various paths set before you, let this settle into your spirit: you didn't come this far to come this far. You kept what was valuable in front of you. You pivoted where necessary. You became consistent as time moved on, even when consistency cost you something. Desire to be supported and encouraged by other like-minded women? Join us at...
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4142 Satisfy Us in the Morning
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There's a moment right before your feet hit the floor. The alarm has gone off, the day is waiting, and for just a second you get to choose what you reach for first. Most of us reach for the phone. We reach for the to-do list already running in our heads. We reach for yesterday's leftover worry and let it become this morning's starting point. But there's another way to open your eyes. Psalm 90:14 says, "Satisfy us in the morning with your unfailing love, that we may sing for joy and be glad all our days." Moses wrote those words — the same Moses who spent forty years watching a...
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4141 Keep Your Clothes On
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Marriage was designed for intimacy. God built it that way on purpose — physical closeness is part of the gift. So why in the world would I tell you to keep your clothes on? Because there's a kind of intimacy that has to come first. And if you don't have it, the physical stuff becomes a bandage on a wound that keeps reopening. If you don't have the heart of your spouse, maybe you should keep your clothes on. Cordial Isn't the Same as Connected Think about how you actually interact with your spouse right now — not how you wish you did, not how you did on your wedding day. Right...
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4140 The GIft that Keeps on Giving
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Parents have it rough sometimes. The struggle is real. We want to give our kids everything. The newest shoes. The latest gadget. The experience everyone else is posting about. We work extra shifts, stretch the budget, and say yes to one more thing—all because we want them to have what matters. But here's what we don't say out loud enough: the one thing only you can give them, you already have. It's you. Your presence. The gift that keeps on giving. A lot of times, we convince ourselves that if we just buy this or get that, our kids will know they're loved. And materially, maybe they'll have...
info_outlineWe are masters at paying attention to the wrong things. The comment someone made three weeks ago. The comparison trap on social media. The "what if" that hasn't happened and might never happen. We hand our focus over to noise, and while we're distracted, the path meant for us — the one carved out specifically for our feet — starts to fade into the background. But it doesn't have to disappear all at once. Maybe now would be a good time to consider why presence changes everything.
Because the loss of focus is more like a slow dimming. One day you look up, and you can't quite remember the last time you felt like you were headed somewhere.
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Discouragement moves in. And discouragement is patient — it will wait as long as it needs to until you settle. Not because settling is what you want, but because you're standing in a sticky situation with no clear next step, and staying still feels safer than moving blindly.
Here's the truth though: you were never meant to walk this path blindly.
What If You Could See the Path Again?
What if you had the foresight to actually walk the journey meant for you — not someone else's version of it, not the one you assumed you should want, but yours?
What if you could check in with yourself the way you'd check a map — pause, look around, confirm you're still headed the right direction — and from that check-in, make small shifts before you've drifted too far off course?
That's not a fantasy. That's presence.
Presence is the difference between wandering and walking with intention. It's the quiet skill of noticing where you actually are, instead of where you assume you are or wish you were. And it's available to you right now, in this very moment, regardless of how far off the path you feel.
"One step at a time leads to miles of greatness." ~ Kristianne Wargo
That's not just an encouraging phrase — it's a strategy. Greatness isn't reached in leaps. It's reached one honest, present step after another. But you can only take an honest step if you know where your feet actually are.
The Path Lights Up as You Walk It
Proverbs 4:18 says, "The path of the righteous is like the morning sun, shining ever brighter till the full light of day."
Notice what this verse doesn't say. It doesn't say the path is fully lit from the start. It says the light grows — brighter and brighter — as you walk. You are not required to see the whole road today. You're only required to be present enough to see the next few feet in front of you, and take them.
So let me ask you directly:
Where are you headed today?
Where do your actions — not your intentions, your actual actions — direct you?
If you're honest, are they leading you toward the life you say you want? Or are they leading you toward comfort, distraction, or avoidance dressed up as busyness?
Presence is the answer to your journey. Not perfection. Not certainty.
Presence.
The willingness to show up in your own life and actually look around.
The K.I.S.S. ~ Stay present on your own path!
So, where are you showing up in your own life? And where have you gone quietly missing?
Three Things You Can Do to Stay Present on Your Path
If you want your path to remain visible — if you want to catch the drift before it becomes a full detour — here are three things you can start doing today.
1. Do a daily location check. Before your day gets away from you, ask: Where am I right now — emotionally, mentally, spiritually? And does that match where I want to be headed? This isn't about judgment. It's about awareness. You can't correct a course you refuse to look at.
2. Let your calendar tell the truth. Look at how you actually spent yesterday. Not how you meant to spend it — how you did. Your calendar and your habits are the most honest journal you own. If they don't match your stated direction, that's not failure. That's information. Use it.
3. Create a checkpoint, not just a goal. Goals live far in the future. Checkpoints live this week. Set a small, specific marker — something you can look back on in seven days and ask, "Did I move toward my path, or away from it?" A checkpoint keeps you present because it's close enough to actually see.
None of these require a total life overhaul. They require attention. And attention, sustained over time, is what presence actually looks like.
You don't need to see the whole path today. You need to be present enough to see the next step — and brave enough to take it.
CHALLENGE:
Where in your life have you been present in appearance only — going through the motions — while your actual attention has drifted somewhere else? What would it look like to show up fully, starting today?
"Be present. Be incredible. Be YOU!!!"
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