229 - How to Make It Missional: Gratitude That Impacts Lives
It's almost Thanksgiving, and maybe this year you're just trying to make it through. Trying to smile through the "fixings" and the feasting while something feels empty inside. Maybe everything is right on the surface but stress is eating at your inner calm. Or you're grieving a shift, an unwelcome season, a spot empty around your table. Perhaps the budget simply can't cover the holiday spread you envisioned on your table. Can I reach a hand right through your screen—a hand to steady yours right now? You might not be able to see how yet, but you will make it through. How do I know? Because I know the God who won't let go of you. I know that at this very moment, He's giving thanks for you. If Jesus were seated at your table on Thanksgiving, and you were going around saying one thing you're grateful for, He'd lock eyes with you and say, "It's you. It's you I can't stop thinking about. It's you who squeezes My heart. It's you I'd give everything for." Links mentioned: The Spill-Over Gratitude Challenge To get a short, doable tip in your inbox every week to help you get to know your neighbors, sign up HERE. Read the written version of this episode HERE.
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228 - How To Entwine Gratitude In Everyday Life Conversation
An accessible life is permeable. God can get in. God can ripple out through us. A no-place-off-limits openness to God welcomes the tender work through which He frees and heals us. Trust gives God permission to inhabit. He enters where He's invited, never barging through barricades in our hearts, but knocking with patience and persistence. Openness in our relationships allows the work God is doing inside to show so that others may be drawn to His hope and light. It brings purpose and depth to our friendships: we get to point people to Jesus, as we were created to do, simply by living our learning-to-follow Christ lives in plain sight. Links mentioned: The Spill-Over Gratitude Challenge To get a short, doable tip in your inbox every week to help you get to know your neighbors, sign up HERE. Read the written version of this episode HERE.
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227 - To the One Scrolling: How to Exhale Gratitude in Online Spaces
But what if we've tried to keep gratitude too quiet? What if it gets buried in the lines of our journals? What if gratitude is looking for a way to ripple beyond us–spilling over like uncontained laughter? Links mentioned: The Spill-Over Gratitude Challenge To get a short, doable tip in your inbox every week to help you get to know your neighbors, sign up HERE. Read the written version of this episode HERE.
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226 - Gratitude Out Loud: This Is What It Might Ignite in Your Life
But what if we've tried to keep gratitude too quiet? What if it gets buried in the lines of our journals? What if gratitude is looking for a way to ripple beyond us–spilling over like uncontained laughter? Links mentioned: The Spill-Over Gratitude Challenge To get a short, doable tip in your inbox every week to help you get to know your neighbors, sign up HERE. Read the written version of this episode HERE.
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225 - Reverse the Hurry of the Holidays With One Simple Trick
Reversing the hurry of the holidays sounds lovely, but let's get practical. Without a plan, I get swept into the busyness of the holiday season. I don't linger. I squeeze in more and move faster and connect less. You too? Links mentioned: The Spill-Over Gratitude Challenge The Greatest Gift: Unlocking the Full Love Story of Christimas by Ann Voskamp Merry and Bright: Rediscover the Hope, Peace, and Joy of Christamas by One Story Well. The Spirit of Christmas: Discovering His Presence Throughout the Advent Season by Cyntha Ruchti. To get a short, doable tip in your inbox every week to help you get to know your neighbors, sign up HERE. Read the written version of this episode HERE.
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.
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