4184 Come and See
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There are seasons in life when the darkness feels closer than it should. When the weight of what you're walking through presses in from every side and you start to wonder if the light you once felt so sure of is still there. Maybe it's grief. Maybe it's uncertainty. Maybe it's a weariness that has settled so deeply into your bones that you can't remember what rest feels like. Wherever you are right now, whatever shadow has crept into the edges of your story, do something simple and holy — come and see. Come and see that the light has not gone out. Desire to be supported and encouraged by...
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4183 Don't Let the Calendar Replace the Connection
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You married your best friend. You chose each other. And somewhere along the way, the life you're building together started pulling you apart — not because the love faded, but because everything else got louder. You're not fighting. You're not even frustrated with each other most days. You're just missing each other; sitting in the same house but living in different rhythms. And that quiet distance? It didn't happen because of one bad day. It happened one full week at a time. So when life crowds in on your marriage, don't let the calendar replace the connection. However, the biggest threat to...
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4182 Listening Is Love
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It's not that unheard of to want to explain everything to your children. We carry decades of life behind us, and we think if we can just say the right thing at the right time, we can spare them the pain. But regardless of their age and stage of life, what they need is your presence. Not your lecture. Not your five-point plan. Your presence; listening is love. You don't have to have all the answers. You don't have to be the problem-solver every single time. What they need from you is ears to hear. Desire to be supported and encouraged by other like-minded women? Join us at the . ...
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4181 The Heat Is On
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There are moments in life when everything feels like it's pressing in — the deadlines, the demands, the weight of expectations, and the relentless pace that never seems to slow down. And right in the middle of all of it, you realize something: the heat is on. Not just the kind that comes from outside pressure, but the kind that rises from within, the fire that tells you it's time to move, to grow, to step into the fullness of who you are and who you are created to be. No matter what happens in your day, at some point you have to be willing to go the extra mile, play full out, and do whatever...
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4180 The Soil No One Talks About
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People will tell you about the blooming, the breakthrough, and the moment they finally stepped into the calling God placed on their life, where everything clicks because He has been planning it all along. But nobody really talks about the soil no one talks about — the stuff underneath the surface that made the bloom possible in the first place. The seasons that felt more like a burial than planting. The prayers that seemed to bounce off the ceiling. The plans you laid out in good faith that God, in His gentle sovereignty, folded up and tucked away. And if you've been in one of those...
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4179 Set the Pace for Your Daily Race
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Have you ever watched a tennis match and noticed the winner isn't always the one hitting the hardest? Sometimes it's the one who knows when to slow down, when to push forward, and when to reset between points. With the US Open in full swing right now, there's no better time to be reminded that the way we approach our daily lives mirrors what's happening on those courts in Flushing Meadows. It's time to set the pace for your daily race — not someone else's, not the world's, but the one God specifically designed for you. Tennis is a game of rhythm. Every elite player has a routine between...
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4178 Laboring For What Lasts
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There's something beautifully ironic about Labor Day. It's the one day of the year when we're told to stop laboring — to set down the to-do list, fire up the grill, and just breathe. But as the burgers sizzle and the kids splash in the last pool days of summer, a quiet question has a way of surfacing: What am I really working for? Today, as we celebrate the gift of rest, let's talk about Laboring for What Lasts — and why the answer to that question shapes everything. Jesus said it plainly in Matthew 6:21 (NIV): "For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also." Desire to be...
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4177 Notice God's Goodness
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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...
info_outlineYou've probably heard someone say it before — maybe a parent, maybe a mentor, maybe someone who just knew they were right and wanted you to remember it later. Mark my words. It's a phrase loaded with conviction, a verbal stake in the ground. But here's what I want you to sit with today: what if you turned that phrase inward? What if, instead of waiting for someone else to speak with that kind of certainty over your life, you learned to mark your words — the ones you speak, the ones you whisper to yourself when nobody else is listening, and the ones you let fall carelessly because you didn't think they mattered?
Because your words matter. Every single one.
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We live in a world that's noisy. Opinions fly at us from every direction, and somewhere in all that noise, we started treating our own voice like background music — always playing but rarely worth paying attention to.
You'll catch yourself mid-sentence, backtracking. Well, I don't really know, but… or This probably sounds silly, but… You qualify. You shrink. You speak and then immediately un-speak, as if your words need permission from someone else before they're allowed to land.
But here's the thing that might sting a little: other people are already taking you at your word.
Your kids hear what you say and file it away. Your spouse builds expectations around what you commit to. Your coworkers, your friends, your community — they listen, and they remember. The question isn't whether your words carry weight. They do. The question is whether you believe they do.
Proverbs tells us that the power of life and death is in the tongue. That's the reality. And it doesn't just apply to what you say to others. It applies to what you say to yourself and about yourself.
When you tell yourself you'll never get it together, you're marking those words. When you promise yourself you'll start and then don't, you're teaching yourself that your own voice isn't trustworthy. And slowly, quietly, you stop believing you're someone worth listening to — even though you are worthy to be heard.
So how do you start marking your words on purpose?
The K.I.S.S. ~ Mark your words!
You begin by paying attention. Not with perfection — we're not aiming for a life where you never misspeak or never say something you regret. That's not real, and it's not grace.
But you start noticing.
- You notice when you undercut yourself.
- You notice when you make a commitment and let it dissolve because it was only to yourself and nobody else was keeping score.
- You notice when the words you speak over your own life sound nothing like the words God speaks over you — words of hope, of purpose, of a future that isn't finished yet.
And then you make a shift.
- You start speaking to yourself the way you'd speak to someone you love.
- You start following through on the small promises — the ones nobody sees — because those are the ones that rebuild trust between you and your own reflection.
- You stop apologizing for having an opinion.
- You stop waiting for someone else to validate what you already know in your gut to be true.
Because when you mark your words — when you treat your own voice as something worth honoring — you're not being arrogant. You're being faithful. You're agreeing with the God who already said you are fearfully and wonderfully made, and that He knew the plans He had for you before you ever opened your mouth. Speaking with intention and integrity isn't pride. It's stewardship of the voice you've been given.
So today, right now, I want you to take yourself at your own word. If you said you would, then do. If you believe it, then say it — out loud, without the apology, without the qualifier.
Let your yes be yes. Let your no be no. Let your words be something you're proud to stand behind, not because you'll always get it right, but because you've decided that your voice deserves the same respect you so freely give to everyone else's.
You are worth listening to. So start with listening to yourself.
The next time you're tempted to brush off something you said or felt or believed, pause. Mark it. Write it down if you have to. Hold it up and look at it and ask yourself, Do I believe this enough to live it?
Because the woman who marks her words is the woman who starts walking in the fullness of who she was created to be. And that journey — that beautiful, messy, always-worth-it journey — it starts right here, with the very next word you choose to speak.
"Be present. Be incredible. Be YOU!!!"
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