4177 Notice God's Goodness
Create Your Now with Kristianne Wargo
There is a rhythm to our days that we rarely stop long enough to notice. We wake, we push, we strive, and we do it all over again. We wrap ourselves around careers, achievements, milestones, and ambitions so tightly that we forget whose we are and who we belong to. But what if this weekend, during this beautiful pause, it became the moment you chose to notice God's goodness? God did not create us to chase all the earthly things. He did not breathe life into us so we could spend every waking moment climbing ladders and collecting accolades. Desire to be supported and encouraged by other...
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4176 When Holding It All Together
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There is a quiet kind of tired that has nothing to do with sleep. It's the exhaustion that settles into your bones when you've poured out every ounce of who you are for the people you love and you look around and wonder, "Who's pouring into me?" If you've ever felt that heaviness, if you've ever smiled through the day while silently breaking underneath, then you already understand what it means when holding it all together is pulling you apart. You are not alone in this. Desire to be supported and encouraged by other like-minded women? Join us at the . #RelationshipBuilders #CreateYourNow...
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4175 Nerves Mean You Care
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Have you ever laid awake at night replaying a moment from your day — a sharp word, a missed cue, a decision you second-guessed the moment it left your mouth? If that knot in your stomach feels all too familiar, then you need to know that those nerves mean you care. And caring is not a weakness. It's the heartbeat of a mother who loves deeply and wants to show up well for her family. We live in a world that hands us an impossible checklist. The parenting books say one thing. The experts say another. Your family and in-laws have their opinions, your best friend has hers, the school sends home...
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4174 Break Back
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Have you ever felt like life just keeps piling on? One thing after another, weight upon weight, until you're not sure how much more you can carry. Maybe it's a season at work that won't let up, a relationship that drains more than it gives, or a quiet accumulation of worries that nobody else can see. You bend. You bow. You accommodate. And somewhere in the middle of all that bending, you start to wonder if you'll ever stand tall again. It's not time to break down or break apart, but to break back into the wholeness God designed for you. There's a difference between being flexible and being...
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4173 What's Holding You in Place?
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Nobody photographs the underground. We frame the flowers. We celebrate the blossoms. We hold our phones up to the blooming tree and post it for the world to see. But the roots? The tangled, soil-dark, unglamorous system beneath it all? No one even thinks to look down. And yet when the wind comes, when the ground shakes, when life throws something at you that you didn't see coming — it's worth asking one honest question: What's Holding You in Place? Every woman who has ever weathered a storm and stayed standing knows this truth deep in her bones: it wasn't the bloom that held her. It wasn't...
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4172 Breathe Again
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There comes a moment when you realize you've been holding your breath — not literally, maybe, but somewhere deep inside, you've been clenching. Holding it all together so tightly that you forgot what it felt like to simply exhale. If that's where you are today, I want you to hear two words that might change everything: Breathe Again. Not tomorrow. Not when the to-do list is done. Right now. Because you were never meant to run on empty and call it faithfulness. We get tangled up in what doesn't work. We keep pulling at the same stubborn knots — the relationships that drain us, the routines...
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4171 Does the Wait Feel Long and Hard?
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Have you ever found yourself standing in a season where everything feels paused, and no matter how hard you try to push forward, the next step just isn't clear? If you've been asking yourself, "Does the wait feel long and hard?" — you are not alone. We are all waiting for something. Whether it's direction for your next steps, something to shift in your marriage, your health to get well, or your heart to finally heal, you will find yourself wondering just how much longer this stretch is going to last. And in the middle of it, the silence can feel deafening. Waiting is one of those...
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4170 Turn Prayer into a Daily Habit
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Let's be real for a second. When was the last time you prayed and it wasn't because something was falling apart? Most of us have that 911 prayer life down to an art. The doctor calls with unexpected results — we pray. The marriage hits a rough patch — we pray. A child makes a choice that sends our stomach to the floor — oh, we pray then. But what about Tuesday afternoon when the laundry is folded, dinner is in the oven, and life is just… fine? What about the season when nothing is broken, and nothing is burning? If we're honest, those are the moments when our prayer life quietly fades...
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4169 Love Doesn't Clock Out
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Have you ever had one of those days where you've given everything you have — to your job, to the kids, to the house, to the never-ending list — and by the time you finally sit down next to your spouse, you've got nothing left? Maybe not even words. Just a sigh and a sinking into the couch cushion. In those moments, it can feel like love is something you just don't have the energy for. But here's what you must know: love doesn't clock out. It doesn't punch a time card and call it a day just because you're running on fumes. Love stays. Love chooses. And love finds a way, even when you're not...
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4168 Your Child's Mountaintop in the Valley
Create Your Now with Kristianne Wargo
We tell our kids something all the time without realizing it. We say, "You'll get there— one day," painting the picture of a summit: gleaming, golden, way up high, as if that's the only place where victory lives. But what if we've been pointing our children in the wrong direction? What if the moment we've been telling them to wait for is already happening right where they are? Your child's mountaintop in the valley doesn't happen at the top; it happens in the climb. School is back in session. Backpacks are loaded. Schedules are pinned to refrigerators. And your child is walking into a season...
info_outlineI know you're tired. I know that thing you've been carrying — that weight you keep picking up every single morning, even though nobody would blame you for setting it down — I know it's heavy. And I know you've told yourself more than once that you're not sure you have another round in you. But here's what I also know: you have one more in you!
You're still here.
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You're still listening to this. You're still showing up. You're still breathing and fighting and doing the next thing even when the next thing feels like climbing a mountain in shoes that don't fit. And that tells me something about who you are that maybe you've forgotten.
You are someone who does not quit.
Now before you push back on that — before you start listing all the things you've walked away from or the moments you felt like you failed — let me stop you right there. Because there is a Christ-sized difference between quitting and resting. There is a Christ-sized difference between walking away from something that was never yours to carry and giving up on the calling that God stitched into your bones before you ever took your first breath. You know the difference. Deep down, past the noise and the fear and the fatigue, you know.
And that's the thing you gotta know? That's the thing I want to talk about today.
One more.
Not ten more. Not a hundred more. Not "figure out the rest of your life by Friday." Just one more.
- One more step.
- One more conversation.
- One more prayer.
- One more try at the thing that makes your stomach flip because it matters that much to you.
Sometimes we get so caught up in the finish line that we forget the race is made up of single steps. We look at where we want to be, measure the distance, and collapse under the math of it all.
But what if you stopped measuring? What if, just for today, you gave yourself permission to only take one more step?
You know what Paul said to the church in Galatia — and honestly, I think he could've been sitting right here in this room saying it to you and me — "Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up." If we do not give up. Not if we sprint. Not if we perform. Not if we get it perfect. If we simply do not stop.
The K.I.S.S. ~ One more!
You are not behind. I don't care what the timeline in your head says. I don't care what her life looks like on the other side of your screen. I don't care that you thought you'd be further along by now.
God is not checking His watch. He's not tapping His foot. He is walking beside you and He is saying the same thing I'm saying — keep going. You've got one more in you.
And I know the voice in your head is loud right now. I know it's telling you that you're foolish for still trying. That the smart thing would be to play it safe. That everybody else figured it out faster and you must be missing something.
But can I tell you what I've learned about that voice? It only shows up when you're close. It only gets loud when you're about to walk into something that scares the enemy. Because if you weren't a threat, nobody would bother trying to shut you down.
So let it be loud. And then take one more step anyway.
Here's the thing about believing in yourself when you're running on fumes. It's not about feeling confident. It's not about waking up with fire in your veins and certainty in your chest. Some days belief looks like dragging yourself to the edge of the bed and whispering, "Okay, God. I don't see it. But You do. So I'm going to trust You with this one more." That's faith. That's the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen — and sometimes the thing not seen is your own strength. But He sees it. He put it there.
You were not built to sit on the sidelines of your own life. You were not designed to watch everybody else step into their calling while you talk yourself out of yours. You were made for this — this messy, beautiful, frustrating, holy process of becoming. And becoming doesn't happen in one giant leap. It happens in the one more.
One more conversation with your spouse where you choose honesty over walls.
One more morning where you open that journal and write what's really on your heart.
One more moment where you tell fear it doesn't get to drive today.
One more time you look in the mirror and say, "I believe in who God is making me."
That's where the breakthrough lives. Not in the dramatic movie moment. Not in the standing ovation. It lives in the quiet, ordinary, unsexy, everyday afternoon decision to try one more time. And then one more after that.
So wherever you are right now — whether you're listening to this with tears streaming down your face or nodding along with your coffee getting cold — I want you to know something. I believe in you. Not because I think you're perfect. Not because I think you won't stumble. But because I've watched what God does with people who refuse to stop walking. He meets them. Every single time. He meets them right there in the one more.
And if no one else has said it to you today, let me be the one.
You've got this. Not because you're strong enough on your own. But because the One who called you is faithful, and He finishes what He starts. Including you.
One more. You've got one more in you.
"Be present. Be incredible. Be YOU!!!"
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