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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❤

Hi!! Every once in a while I start getting hit in my mind with, “What are you writing for? You don’t have anything to say that anyone doesn’t already know!!” Ha! What came to me this morning is, “Turn it around!!”

Im not really able to do that without strength from God, but I can choose what I want to think about anything, right? Well today I choose to turn those crazy lies around!! I can write  if I want, and actually I enjoy it so why not do it?

There have been many things in my life that could have been very hideous if I hadn’t made the decision to turn my thinking around. When you go through different hard things, it’s very easy to get stuck in stinking thinking and get beat down. If you make the decision to SHIFT and turn things around…you can overcome in many ways!!

I don’t think we realize sometimes just how negative we can be. I can remember the day exactly, that I got more determined about overcoming and thinking differently. It’s very easy to fall back and stop doing it too. You have to be intentional about it!! It’s not what our mind will automatically do!!

What I actually did when I started thinking like that the last time was to actually take an online webinar class!! I saw how a young lady was teaching about putting your blogs on Pinterest. Wow, that was something new for me. It opened a whole new world I hadn’t learned about yet. I’ve just tapped into maybe making an ecourse and actually selling stuff…

Im learning a new thing, that’s a turn around from starting to think I’m not doing anyone any good. You get it? That’s what I mean about changing your thinking!! Now it’s all exciting again and I’m plunging into new areas!! That is the way our whole life can be!! Opportunities are endless!!

Can you think of a way you can turn your thinking around? Different opportunities? Different perspectives? Start researching things…get around different surroundings!! I’ve got my thinking cap on now, praying for more creativity from above. Our brains can expand bigger!!

Are there any ways that you are staying too small? Plunge in and think bigger!! Think differently!! Make a difference for other people!! Help others change their mindsets too!! We ALL can use a SHIFT to help us get back on track!!

If this blog helps you in any way can you give me some feed back and tell me different subjects or ideas that you would like to hear? I’m growing, changing, and learning, so any comments are welcome!! I am very thankful for every one of you!!

The Bible says, “Take every thought captive!” That proves that we can do it!!

Start today!❤

Don’t give up❤

Help others too❤

Change our world❤

See you soon❤

 

Being grateful is so needed in my life. I have to think of every little detail I am grateful for. It’s easy in our culture to start taking things for granted and even start complaining about little things when we are so, so blessed.

I don’t want to minimize anything hard that someone is going through, I’m just saying if we can find things to be grateful for during it, that we can overcome better. Just having a savior and God is something to be so thankful for. He can help us through anything.

When my past husband would go in the hospital multiple times for addiction and depression problems, it was so, so hard when he would come home from the hospital. I had a sponser from Al Anon at the time, and she would say, “Think of 25 things you are grateful for.” That would help me keep my sanity sometimes.

Phillipians 4:8 Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable-if anything is praiseworthy-think about such things.

That is not telling us to just be in la la land about things. In the midst of hard things if we can keep thinking on these things, we can have peace in the midst of a storm. There is always something to be grateful for if we look hard enough.

This keeps us away from self pity!! Self pity is awful! If we get into some of this negative thinking, it can overtake us!! It can make us start being hopeless, which is not good. It can pull us down into depression.

I encourage you right now, no matter what you are going through, to make a list of 25 things you are grateful for. It will change things around for you, if you do it from your heart.

We have lots to be grateful for!!❤

Sometimes we forget❤

Find 25 things❤

Talk to you soon❤

 

 

Just thinking about solutions today. There are always, I mean Always solutions available. There really is no reason to stay stuck in a situation. Our minds, or our enemy, may tell us there is no solution, but that is a hopeless lie. We may have to seek out a solution, but there always is one.

It’s amazing the answers that might show up for you if you start seeking. Don’t ever think you are above seeking help or that you can conquer everything all by yourself. Don’t ever just sit there in your misery full of excuses why you can’t change and never move forward.

Even if we are sitting in the middle of a health problem, financial strain, divorce, or grief, we can always be comforted by our savior if we choose to be. That can come in many different forms. I have seen such amazing miracles come about from resources and places that seem like they would offer no help!! Small little miracles and stepping stones along the road.

When I went through a divorce, I found a Divorce Recovery Group… that was a great place to meet friends going through what you are. People to hang out with and a process to help you endure the grief and hardship.

When I was married to an addict, I went to Al Anon, which taught me such life tools to better myself and learn to get along with people that are so struggling in life.

I was always seeing a counselor of some sort and it shaped my life constantly in a positive direction. If you need something it is at your fingertips in America. We are very blessed. I loved to be a part of small business too, those little companies train you and take care of you in many ways. They are like a family, and pray for one another and support one another❤.

Now the most amazing part of all. When Marty and I met, he had been through some of the same things. While I was doing these things, he was too and we didn’t even know each other. We were being prepared by God to be married to one another. Not just that, we were being trained, almost like college classes to help others find solutions.

Thats the most amazing part of the whole thing. If you humble yourself and get help, it is preparing you to be stronger to help others. It makes you healthier, it attracts you to healthier people.

So, there is always hope and solutions if you dig in and are not full of excuses. Sometimes you have to SHIFT your thinking and what you want. But it will work out for the good one way or another!!

Always hope❤

Never stop and be stuck❤

People need your story❤

See you soon❤