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Not a Victim #12: Narcissism, it’s all around us
I’m almost afraid to write another blog about narcissistic personalities. Do you see it, or is it just me? It’s all around us. It’s a pandemic in itself. Although we don’t understand why God allows what He does, we need to know that He’s God, He knows all, we do not. As I look back on my life, I see how my life experiences are preparing me for what’s going on now, in our world, all around us. It’s sad but I don’t seem to be shocked anymore. There are so many topics that can be mentioned here, but the one topic I want to touch on in this blog…
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Not a Victim #11: The Calm in the Storm
So things have mellowed out and I’m feeling pretty confident. Though I’m afraid to make waves in fear that all will come crashing down in a breath. Does everyone live life like this? Is this normal? Am I being over dramatic? Am I being a baby? Am I expecting life to be a dream, a fairytale? After all I did grow up engulfed by the television. It was my world for a long time. Maybe that was my escape from my surroundings. Is it me? Am I being selfish? Am I the reason our relationship doesn’t work? These are the lies the enemy wants us to believe. Then there’s the…
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Not a Victim #10: How to Be Strong When Confronted By a Narcissistic Personality?
James 4:11-12 Don’t criticize one another, brothers. He who criticizes a brother or judges his brother criticizes the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge. The | Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB) 10 important things to know, to be Strong Know who’s you are Know who you are in Christ Know who is in control Know who the enemy is Pray Be in Gods Word Keep eyes off of self Walk away before the mouth goes a direction it shouldn’t Let go of the bitterness Forgive These sound easy enough. And with Faith and Trust…
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I Have a Secret
1 Thessalonians 5:17-18 Pray constantly. Give thanks in everything, for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus. As most of us do, I do have a secret. I’ll share this with you and be perfectly honest. I am not a good prayer warrior. Yea you heard me right. I am not eloquent with my words, or have powerful prayers. But one thing I will assure you, when I say I’m going to pray, I will pray. When I am asked to pray for somebody or something, I will pray. I pray often, as I remember, or as God reminds me. My prayers are simply talking to God. Yes…
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The How: Spiritual Gifts
“Based on the gift each one has received, use it to serve others, as good managers of the varied grace of God. If anyone speaks, it should be as one who speaks God’s words; if anyone serves, it should be from the strength God provides, so that God may be glorified through Jesus Christ in everything. To Him belong the glory and the power forever and ever. Amen.” 1 Peter 4:10-11 HCSB https://bible.com/bible/72/1pe.4.10-11.HCSB While studying Spiritual Gifts in Gods Word, preparing for these blogs, instead of feeling more educated on the subject, I’m feeling more inadequate. (There are so many different takes on Spiritual Gifts. There are many reputable studies…
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Happy Mothers Day 2022!
I want to tell you a story of when I made Mother of the Year at our church. No, this is not a bragging story about myself. This is a story of self pity, a lack of faith, and listening to the enemy. This is a true story and happened many years ago. Back when we had three boys. A set of twins and a single. I was homeschooling them at that point in time, the twins were in second grade and our single in kindergarten. To give some backstory, I had always wanted a girl. I had a girls name picked out since I can remember. With having three…
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Happy Easter Week 2022
What is Easter? I remember as a child, we would dress up in pretty bonnets and dresses with our shiny new shoes. The boys would wear ties and either fancy shorts or dress pants. And families would have matching outfits. Easter was a special day for our whole family to go to church. At that time Easter was all about the Easter bunny and all the chocolate candy he was going to leave in our baskets, and Easter egg hunts, loved those Easter egg hunts. When I was a teen and young adult, I would practice lent. I’d choose something to give up for lent. Most of the time it…
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To Old To Be About Gods Kingdom?
I’m old, yes, but I’m not going to tell you how old. Old enough that my children are all grown and have families of their own. Old enough to remember when I was my children’s age, how crazy busy it was working in the church, raising our family, working a full time job, volunteering, and well…being busy! I remember at one point being on the church’s nominating committee. I remember hearing reports of the older people in our church, my age now, refuse the invitation to be a servant in the church. I remember one particular comment, “I’ve paid my dues.” I thought it was sad then and think it is…
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What about those Spiritual Gifts?
“Based on the gift each one has received, use it to serve others, as good managers of the varied grace of God. If anyone speaks, it should be as one who speaks God’s words; if anyone serves, it should be from the strength God provides, so that God may be glorified through Jesus Christ in everything. To Him belong the glory and the power forever and ever. Amen.” 1 Peter 4:10-11 HCSB https://bible.com/bible/72/1pe.4.10-11.HCSB The Spiritual Gifts are Gifts from God to His children to be used to glorify God. There are so many avenues to explore on this subject. First I wanted to touch on our expectations. When we are…
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Not a Victim #9 The Egg, the Carrot, and the Coffee Bean
Taken the end of 2020…in Yosemite area…during a pandemic, after wild fires, wind storms, and insect infestation. Sad, yet new life and beauty begins again… There’s this object lesson that I’ve held on to for years. In fact I’m sure I’ve written about it in my previous blogs. This object lesson is a very popular story. The first time I heard this story was when I was teaching our youth group at our church, years ago. As a teacher, I think I learned more from this lesson than the youth did. In fact, I would be surprised if any of them even remembered this particular lesson. But it is an…