Welcome to a becoming-space. A place for imperfectly ready people to say yes to more Jesus and actual friendships with their neighbors. A place for introverts a...
We don’t have to be more or less of anything. Our presence alone blesses Him. I’m sitting with that as I ponder how we best serve God and minister to the people in front of us on His behalf. Links mentioned: 1. To get a short, doable tip in your inbox every week to help you get to know your neighbors, sign up here. 2. Read the written version of this episode HERE. 3. I’m taking Mary Demuth’s 90-Day Bible Reading Challenge, searching for names of God as I read like it’s some sort of treasure hunt. Never though to look for God in this way until I began journaling through Ann Voskamp’s Sacred Prayer. 4. Get a FREE Names of God Phone Wallpaper HERE.
--------
7:40
191 - Where To Find The Most Beautiful Picture Of Open Hands
What strikes me about this picture of open hands is that for hands to be unfolded daily, they must be balled-up daily too. I can relate to that. Links mentioned: 1. To get a short, doable tip in your inbox every week to help you get to know your neighbors, sign up here. 2. Read the written version of this episode HERE. 3. Get a FREE Names of God Phone Wallpaper HERE.
--------
7:07
190 - The Best Remedy I’ve Found For My Tendency To Catastrophize
It begins to connect as I pause at the word ‘name’ at the end of Psalm 91: because we know God by name–by His many names–we know TO call on Him, HOW to call on Him, and WHAT to call Him. Links mentioned: 1. To get a short, doable tip in your inbox every week to help you get to know your neighbors, sign up here. 2. Read the written version of this episode HERE. 3. I’m taking Mary Demuth’s 90-Day Bible Reading Challenge, searching for names of God as I read like it’s some sort of treasure hunt. Never though to look for God in this way until I began journaling through Ann Voskamp’s Sacred Prayer. 4. Get a FREE Names of God Phone Wallpaper HERE.
--------
7:27
189 - This Is What Changes When We Know God by Name
It begins to connect as I pause at the word ‘name’ at the end of Psalm 91: because we know God by name–by His many names–we know TO call on Him, HOW to call on Him, and WHAT to call Him. Links mentioned: 1. To get a short, doable tip in your inbox every week to help you get to know your neighbors, sign up here. 2. Read the written version of this episode HERE. 3. I’m taking Mary Demuth’s 90-Day Bible Reading Challenge, searching for names of God as I read like it’s some sort of treasure hunt. Never though to look for God in this way until I began journaling through Ann Voskamp’s Sacred Prayer. 4. Get a FREE Names of God Phone Wallpaper HERE.
--------
7:00
188 - Three Unique Ways To Repeat What You Need To Believe
This morning, wide awake way too early, I pondered how there’s nothing else I’d rather have running through my head when I can’t sleep than the weighty glory of God Himself. Unless I proactively tell my thoughts where to dwell, they wander willful and easily distracted. I lean into lies that incite fear or unworth rather than lean on the One who knows every tender hope and unspoken prayer. Maybe that’s you too. And you’re ready to change the string of what-if’s and self-belittling on repeat inside your head. Ready to root deep in what you need to believe: That God’s good in the middle of the story. Capable even when it appears all’s gone awry. Worthy of praise long before He brings redemption. So I want to tuck a few ideas in your hand for holding onto truth–tried and true ones that I personally use. They all hinge on repetition, which I find to be the gentlest, most effective way to adjust trajectory. Links mentioned: 1. To get a short, doable tip in your inbox every week to help you get to know your neighbors, sign up here. 2. Read the written version of this episode HERE. 3. I’m taking Mary Demuth’s 90-Day Bible Reading Challenge, searching for names of God as I read like it’s some sort of treasure hunt. Never though to look for God in this way until I began journaling through Ann Voskamp’s Sacred Prayer.
Welcome to a becoming-space. A place for imperfectly ready people to say yes to more Jesus and actual friendships with their neighbors. A place for introverts and workaholics and people-pleasers and self-doubters. Welcome, welcome, if that’s you!
I get that pull you feel to go deeper. Find purpose, meaningful conversations, community. I also get how you think you’re not ready.
Want to know a secret?!
None of us are, least of all me!
Also true is that we BECOME ready after, not before, we say yes. Yes to baby steps that deepen relationships and let God spill out everywhere. Yes to becoming more curious, more approachable, more moldable in the tender hands of Jesus.
It’s a process. A beautiful, becoming process where we look less and less like we used to and more and more like Him.
México