Category: Self Help

Sometimes it is just time for Shift!! Shift is the same thing as change, and change is good!! Just because something has been done the same way for 80 years doesn’t mean it’s supposed to stay that way.

I actually had to take a risk and mention something to someone that I thought might be able to be done in a different way!! Guess what? They actually listened to me and thought I might be able to offer an idea! Can you imagine it?

We are actually going to have a meeting and talk about it. I have lived over a decade with lots of creative ideas floating around in my head about things and if I mentioned it, I was sort of invisible. Well apparently that day is over now! I know the other must have been a pruning process to know it’s not about me, which I got it and I get it!! Loud and clear!!

But there comes a day when someone actually needs to hear and is desperate to hear your ideas!! Yes keep on seeking God and don’t give up and that day will come!!

No rush, I suppose, because you don’t want to miss the lessons during the process! Dying to self is quite a process. Then one day, when you least expect it, “Shift happens!!” Yayeee!!

The more things you had to go through in the process, the more excited you are about the SHIFT and the more you know it’s only God working through you, and not you!!

Even if you get no’s and rejection, don’t take it personally, it doesn’t mean you don’t have something good to offer, just embrace the lesson and don’t give up!!

I know you have something valuable to offer this world, everyone created does! Start creating something out of nothing if you have to! You are valuable, you have a voice, and you are worth it!!

If God has given you a dream don’t give up on it, you could even change many lives with your dream!! If you have failed at something several times, that is probably the thing you need to help others with!!

Listen to those around you, it might change your life! Sometimes it’s the quietest voice that needs to be heard the loudest!!

God uses the foolish things of the world to confound the wise!!

Always remember that verse! Someone told me to always remember that years ago and I have and it’s true!!

Live Out Loud❤️

Live with purpose❤️

Your voice with show up, if you don’t give up❤️

Shift really does happen❤️

See you soon❤️

 

Some of the things I am writing about are some of the things that will be in my book. Love is a very pure thing, a give and take equally thing. Both people have the same interest in the relationship, without manipulation and lies.

Sometimes a person can be very manipulative in your life and keep calling you their best friend, or whatever until you think they are your best friend. This is not love, this is manipulation and codependency. This is a distraction from someone that is needy.

Im not saying to just ditch this person, I’m saying to make sure there are proper boundaries in place so they don’t steal your identity. How would I know about this? It has happened to me. I’m onto it now, though.

My personality is one that God gave me and the enemy would like to distract me and get me to a place where I’m not sure who I am. Of course friendships and relationships are a wonderful gift from God, but if someone is being controlling and manipulative it is not a gift at all.

That’s why it’s so important to speak into children’s lives about who they are. If they learn very early who they are they won’t stray far from it. Trauma can taint who we are. Especially trauma not dealt with in our life.

Everyone is redeemable and changeable! With God ALL things are possible!! We have to be teachable, moldable, and pliable. When we are those things, we can grow, change, and flourish.

That is good material for a good friend or spouse or anything in our life. Are they teachable, moldable, and pliable? Then you can work together with each other with honor for one another. The place that I have learned to do this the most is at recovery meetings.

My goal is to bring those principles into the church. It could make people understand how to walk in unity more and honor one another’s differences!! That’s what God wants. He wants us all to be unique individuals walking together, hearing each other’s voices, listening, taking what you can from each person and respecting how different they are from you.

In a dysfunctional world, everything that comes out of your mouth is debated. There is a way to disagree that is right, but not to a place where your voice is silenced. That is control, if your voice is silenced. That is what the enemy is after.

Last fall I went to the desert for 6 weeks and got my voice restored. I don’t believe my voice will ever get silenced again because I am onto the enemies tactics. I am so grateful to be moving on to my destiny and helping others along the way!!

Let your voice be heard! Not in a destructive way, you might need more pruning if it comes out too aggressive, but in a loving, truthful way.

Keep  growing and learning❤

Your voice is important❤

Don’t force your will❤

No manipulation❤

God Rules❤

See ya’ll soon❤

Just encouraging you to let your personality shine wherever you go. Don’t give up you for anybody!! Sometimes I have a hard time sticking to this. I start wanting to make the people around me happy, be what they want me to be.

Then I have to remember to be who I am and what God created me to be!! We can even influence people and help them be who they are created to be!!

Lots of times when people are being grumpy it’s because they have lost their way. They are not happy with themselves and stopped remembering who they are and how they shine!

We need to remind them and make it start happening for them again!! My tendency used to be to back off from them if they are being grumpy because it stings. Now I see that I need to come back with speaking who they are and bring it back to life in them.

I am in a new writing class and I absolutely love it! The first thing they had us do was get an acountabilitibuddy… they had a long list of people on there, where they were from, their email, and what their books are about. I love that because it was interactive and that is me.

I picked a lady from Georgia, she and I are matched so perfectly. She has a prayer network and is praying for me in all areas of life. I am so grateful for that! I am doing the same for her!! I ran into something the other day and she was just the voice I needed to hear.

Writing the book is pretty challenging for me, so I haven’t been writing here as much! I will keep you posted what’s going on and I am going to have a private launch page on Facebook so a group of people can help me get it launched.They are teaching me every little thing step by step!!

I also just talked to a young lady that goes to the local college that will help me transcribe, use Word, and put things on a hard drive!! Woo hoo!! Coming together!!

I thank you all for reading and giving me feedback and support! I do feel that writing is one of the ways that I can share my experience, strength, and hope with others.

Keep pursuing you, and what you were put here for. It could be a very simple thing for today, like being a Mom, in your workplace, or where you go to church.

Nothing is wasted. You shining where you are meant to be, can open up doors down the road that you can’t imagine.

Be a blessing today❤

Keep shining❤

This world needs you❤

Don’t give up❤

See you soon❤

Sometimes this seems like an impossible thing to do. We want everyone around us to be in tune with how well we are doing or how nice we look or whatever.

Sometimes we just have to listen to that still, small voice inside of us and encourage ourself. Holy Spirit is that still, small voice and we have to let it speak louder and be the voice that we listen to and not the other voice that keeps telling us that you are nothing, you are worthless, no one really cares about you!!! Lies, lies, lies!!

Learn to chase those stinkin lies away!! Wow, I’m so outta my comfort zone right now,  that I have to do that lots. Then it just becomes second nature.

Even if someone treats you badly. Really, if you didn’t do anything wrong to them, then the issue just might be them, and not you!! We don’t have to take other people’s shame and guilt on!!

It’s so freeing to realize these things. Sometimes people would like to project their own issues on you!! Well we really don’t have to deal with their stuff!!

1 Samuel 30:6 is about David encouraging himself in the Lord. Different versions say it different ways, but he had many things coming against him and had to learn how to encourage himself in the Lord.

I have to do some things this morning, get up in front of people, the enemy would like to tell me that I can’t do this, but I will say, ” Yes, I will encourage myself in the Lord, and I WILL do what God wants me to do!! ”

Yesterday I had to do it too, even while I’m writing this, I have to do it! We just have to listen to the voice of truth!!

Don’t give in to those lies❤

Listen to encouraging words❤

Sometimes people are too beat down themselves, to encourage us, so we have to encourage them, along with encouraging ourselves!!❤

The more we lift up others, the more we will be lifted up, even if we don’t see it for a while!!❤

Pay it forward!❤

Be blessed today and don’t give up!!❤

See you soon❤

Just want to encourage you today to remember to enjoy life. It doesn’t matter what you are dealing with, find little nuggets along the way. Life isn’t meant to be just endured, it’s meant for fulfillment and pleasure along the way.

If we are finding ourselves in a place where we aren’t enjoying life, it might be time to check out what we are doing. Are we letting someone else steal our joy? Are we letting bitternesss or unforgiveness steal our joy?? Are we being stubborn or unteachable about something or someone?

We can’t have lots of things going on inside and really enjoy life, we have to throw them overboard!! Yes!! Gotta get rid of excess baggage!!

I’m so excited right now because I am a people person and getting to know lots of new people. It’s so fun because it ends up being such a small world. Someone from here ends up knowing someone from there and what it all boils down to is that we are all connected in one way or another.

Life can be fun and we can enjoy!! There is always that opposition coming along trying to stop us! It can sneak up from nowhere!! In fact, it’s so funny… I actually wrote this a couple of days ago and decided that I wanted to put a song on here. Well, I played around trying to figure out how to get it on here and ended up not posting the page for about 3 days!!

See what I mean?? Opposition!! I started writing a new page this morning and couldn’t think of anything to write about!! Bahaha!!! That’s a lie and a joke!! Almost fell for it and I decided to pick up this post again!!

This week the reality of the way we are really getting to help so many people hit me. Wow!! These middle school children and the things they deal with!! Tugs at your heart. Some don’t want to go home. I’m so happy to get to love on them. Then the adults we have the honor of ministering to and praying for… I have to say I ENJOY doing this, it’s what I was created for.

I hope you can find good things about life today!! I get to meet 3 friends for lunch today, move a young friend’s things to a storage building, that we got in a home for girls that have been sex trafficked, see 2 grandchildren for a couple of hours, and have a date night with my man!!

That’s a fun day after a busy week!! I hope life is treating you well!! Remember to enjoy!! Remember to take care of you in the middle of other things!! I mean really do that!!!

Smell the roses🌹

Include Jesus and prayer❤

Help others❤

Keep moving forward❤

Throw baggage overboard❤

See you soon❤