A woman who reads and applies The Me Project will
- discover the unique plan God has for her life and her role as a wife, mother, worker, or volunteer
- gather a community of like-minded women who want to make their goals a priority
- change her attitudes toward her roles in life, as well as how she approaches her personal goals
Kathi Lipp is a full-time speaker and writer as well as being the parent of four young adults with her husband, Roger in San Jose, CA. When she is not doing laundry, she is speaking at retreats, conferences and women's events across the US. Find out more about Kathi, and get some great freebies, at http://www.kathilipp.com and Facebook
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So, it’s only Day #3, and some of us have discovered at least one complaining+ habit we didn’t know we had.
Driving seems to be prime time for bracelet switching! Oh, that overwhelming urge to...er...analyze the...er...skills of our fellow drivers.
So, let’s combine our creativity and brainstorm a list of grateful/Godly ways to respond to all drivers we are sure got their licenses via correspondence school!
Yes, I’m changing my bracelet. But I am serious: include at least one idea specifically for replacing bad-driver-"baditude" with God’s word and gratitude in the comments, and your name goes in today’s drawing twice.
Discouraging Truths
- “I had no idea I was this bad!”
- “My poor children have to sit and listen to all this!”
- “What must my non-Christian friends think of my God?”
Mandy (who's blogging her 31 days at New Equus – “A New Creation”) commented, “I'm amazed at how much negativity surrounds me...from myself, from other people. When you shine a spotlight on something, you get to see the naked truth in it!”
If you’re feeling discouraged, that’s okay. This is discouraging stuff! (Anyone want me to tell bad puns and knock-knock jokes for a day or two, just to give us a breather?)
You’ve invited the Holy Spirit to convict you. And now you’re staring at an ugly truth that’s come to light.
Encouragement from God’s Word
Jacque shared this on our Facebook page:
A verse that I came across this morning... encouraging for those of us who are being made over:
"Arise and go down to the potter’s house, and there I will cause you to hear My words.” Then I went down to the potter’s house, and there he was, making something at the wheel. And the vessel that he made of clay was marred in the hand of the potter; so he made it again into another vessel, as it seemed good to the potter to make. Jeremiah 18:2-4
Donna R e-mailed this life verse:
"Do not be afraid, for I have ransomed you. I have called you by name; you are mine.” Isaiah 43:1b
"Do not be afraid, for I have ransomed you. I have called you by name; you are mine.” Isaiah 43:1b
Hope for Us All
Yes, the early results are in, and they’re not good.
We’re messed up. Worse than we thought.
But God is amazing. Better than we realized!
You Complete Me
Over at Simple Marriage, Dr. Corey Allan (whose free download Simple Marriage Manifesto is excellent) recently wrote:
One of the most damaging lines to marriage is found in the movie Jerry McGuire.
And it’s not “Show me the money!”
Here’s my response to the idea of “you complete me.”
If you try to create intimacy with someone else before you go through the task of becoming whole yourself then all your relationships will be an attempt to complete yourself.
For me, it’s food. And shopping. And work. And meddling in the lives of my children. And trying to control my husband. (And that’s just for starters!)
For you it may be pills. Or worry. Or religiosity. Or romance.
Another stanza to the poem I shared on Day 1 goes like this:
It’s so much work to never be
It’s so much work to never be
the girl I truly am;
I’d rather be unloved for ever
than only be loved “when.”
Oh, the empty promises of the Enemy we believe out of our desperate cravings for connection and completion!
Oh, the empty promises of the Enemy we believe out of our desperate cravings for connection and completion!
So that vs. Because
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Trying so that…
or
Trying because…
When we're trying so that we will be loved or chosen or complete, we will find ourselves trapped in escapes and addictions, vacillating wildly between restriction and indulgence.
But when we're trying because we are loved, chosen, and complete, we will be transformed into who God truly created us to be.
Try this today: Play/sing the song "You're All I Need" or "You are My All In All" and really let the lyrics speak to your heart.
Try this today: Play/sing the song "You're All I Need" or "You are My All In All" and really let the lyrics speak to your heart.
(complaining+ = complaining, criticism, gossip, and sarcasm)
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Please leave a comment
- responding to today’s blog, and/or
- sharing your Day #1-3 experience of replacing “baditude” with God’s word and gratitude, and/or
- about anything else on your heart!
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