4157 What You Can't Control Doesn't Get the Final Say
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You already have what you need, right now to create your now. There is no reason to wait for tomorrow, nor when the circumstances shift, or when that one thing finally falls into place. And yet, there's this pull that creeps in and whispers, but what about that thing you can't fix or control? There you are, standing at the edge of a perfectly open door and still looking sideways at the wall beside it, wondering why it won't move. This happens more often than we like to admit. You know what's in front of you. You know the next step. But something uncontrollable grabs your attention, and...
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4156 The Secret of Being Content
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"I know what it is to be in need, and I know what it is to have plenty. I have learned the secret of being content in any and every situation, whether well fed or hungry, whether living in plenty or in want." ~ Philippians 4:12 Contentment didn't land in Paul's lap like some spiritual gift he unwrapped one morning. It was forged and tested, including shipwrecks, beatings, imprisonment, and hunger. He was refined through every season that could have, and maybe should have, shaken him loose from his faith. Desire to be supported and encouraged by other like-minded women? Join us at the . ...
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4155 Celebrate Your Spouse
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When was the last time you actually celebrated your spouse? Not on their birthday or your anniversary. Not some calendar-mandated holiday where Hallmark reminds you it's time to show up. This is a random, ordinary, nothing-special kind of day, when you look at the person doing life beside you and say, "I see you. And I'm grateful." Celebrate your spouse! Now, if you had to think about it, you're not alone. Desire to be supported and encouraged by other like-minded women? Join us at the . #RelationshipBuilders #CreateYourNow #LoveAndMarriage We love our spouses. Deeply. But a lot of times,...
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4154 Before the Bell Rings
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There is something about the start of a new school year that carries both excitement and weight. The backpacks are packed, the outfits are picked out, and the alarm is set for a time no one in the house has seen in weeks. But before the bus pulls up, before the shoes are tied and the lunches are grabbed, there is a window of time that belongs to you and your family. And what you do with it matters more than you might think. It's before the bell rings. It's that morning window, the window that doesn't just happen. It is built. And if you are a parent staring down the start of a new school year,...
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4153 One More
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I 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. Desire to be supported and encouraged by other like-minded women? Join us at the . #Inspiration #CreateYourNow #DailyMotivation You're still listening to this. You're still showing up. You're still breathing and fighting and...
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4152 The Woman in the Mirror
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There's a moment — and if you're honest, you know exactly the one I'm talking about — where you catch your reflection and the first thing that crosses your mind isn't kind. It's not always about what you look like physically, although sometimes it is. More often, it's deeper than that. It's the look in your own eyes that says, I thought I'd be further along by now. It's the quiet measuring of the woman in the mirror that happens when you compare who you are today against who you imagined you'd be at this point. And just like that, the woman staring back at you becomes not enough....
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4151 Design Your Day
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Why is it that we can pour ourselves into everyone else's schedule, everyone else's crisis, everyone else's to-do list, but when it comes to our own day, we just… wing it? We wake up, already behind before our feet hit the floor, and we spend the next twelve or sixteen hours reacting. Putting out fires. Managing the chaos. Surviving until we can collapse back into bed and do it all over again tomorrow. And somewhere in the middle of all that surviving, we forget the most important thing. Our own day. The one God gave us. The one we will never, ever get back. So design your day! Psalm...
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4150 Stop Going Back
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Have you ever made a decision, felt good about it for a moment, and then spent the next three days replaying it in your mind like a movie you can't turn off? You made the call. You weighed your options. You moved. And then — almost out of nowhere — the doubt crept in. Did I really think that through? What if I'm wrong? Maybe I should have waited. Stop going back! When we make a decision and clarity stalls, something uncomfortable starts to bubble up. It's the fear of being stuck. Not stuck because the decision was wrong, but stuck because we won't let go of it long enough to see where...
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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...
info_outline"I know what it is to be in need, and I know what it is to have plenty. I have learned the secret of being content in any and every situation, whether well fed or hungry, whether living in plenty or in want." ~ Philippians 4:12
Contentment didn't land in Paul's lap like some spiritual gift he unwrapped one morning. It was forged and tested, including shipwrecks, beatings, imprisonment, and hunger. He was refined through every season that could have, and maybe should have, shaken him loose from his faith.
Desire to be supported and encouraged by other like-minded women? Join us at the Kairos FREE Online Community. https://createyournow.com
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Paul learned contentment the way you and I learn most things worth knowing: through walking straight through the hard stuff and discovering what held him up when nothing else could.
Have you ever noticed how easy it is to say you're content when the bills are paid, the kids are healthy, and your coffee is still hot? It rolls right off the tongue. I'm so blessed. I'm so grateful. Life is good.
And it is. Life can be really, really good.
Contentment was never meant to be a fair-weather word.
So here's the question that deserves an honest answer today. Where is your contentment actually rooted?
Because if it's anchored in your circumstances, it will shift every single time your circumstances do. And they will. That's not being pessimistic. The job changes. The relationship disappoints. The diagnosis surprises you. The plan you carefully built falls apart in ways you never imagined. And if contentment lives or dies by what's happening around you, then you're not content at all. You're just comfortable. And comfort is not the same thing.
The K.I.S.S. ~ The secret of being content!
Comfort says, everything is fine right now, so I'm fine. Contentment says, even if nothing around me is fine, something inside me still is.
That "something" is not willpower. It's not positive thinking. It's not gritting your teeth and pretending the hard season doesn't hurt.
Paul doesn't leave us guessing. He tells us exactly where contentment comes from in the very next breath — "I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me" (Philippians 4:13).
That verse gets printed on bumper stickers and gym walls, but Paul wasn't talking about athletic performance or career goals. He was talking about surviving lack. About enduring suffering. About standing upright when everything in your life is telling you to crumble.
Paul was saying, the reason I can be content in the worst of it is because my strength was never coming from my situation in the first place. It was coming from God Himself.
That changes everything.
When Christ is the source of your strength, your contentment doesn't depend on a paycheck or a promotion or a person showing up the way you need them to. It doesn't hinge on your health cooperating or your plans working out.
It rests in the One who holds you steady no matter what the ground beneath you is doing.
That is a freedom most people spend their whole lives chasing in all the wrong places. They chase it in more money, more approval, more control.
But contentment was never hiding in more. It was always hiding in Who. It was always waiting in the quiet, Christ-anchored place inside your soul that says, I have everything I need because I have Him.
Does that mean you stop working toward goals? No. Does it mean you pretend pain doesn't exist? Absolutely not. It means you stop letting the outcome define your peace. You stop handing your joy over to things that were never meant to carry it. You hold your plans with open hands and your faith with a tight grip — because one of those will always shift, and the other never will.
Paul learned the secret. And the secret was never a strategy. It was a Savior.
So today, wherever you are — whether the season is full or lean, whether you're celebrating or barely holding on — you can be content. Not because everything is okay, but because God holds everything, and He is holding you, too.
"Be present. Be incredible. Be YOU!!!"
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