An All In Choice

Choose to be All In

Are you ‘all in’ with all you do? That was my mission with my words of ‘All in’ this past year. In many ways, I succeeded and even received unexpected blessings. In other areas, my commitment was less consistent, but improving as 2025 draws to a close. The overwhelming lesson I learned with being all …

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Patience in Waiting

5 lessons for patience in waiting

I move fast, just ask my children. I usually walk ahead of my family in public and take pride in weaving through crowds quickly. I have no patience in waiting. My dad was similar in nature, and it bugged me; yet I do the same and bother my children. I just want to go and …

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Peace is a Choice

Peace is a choice. It’s the main lesson and practice I’ve learned with my 2024 word of peace. Many of us choose a word or words to live with and learn from over the course of a year. For me this year, it was peace. Typically, when I settle on a word, I’m not always …

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Being Rooted

tree with roots pic and words the fruit of being rooted

Ask anyone who picks a ‘word’ for the year and very often what happens related to the word is enlightening. While no major aha moments were revealed, my year of being rooted was certainly an enlightening experience. I learned some things, but overall, it was a year of growth, just like we’d expect with the …

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Faith means understanding we won’t always understand

Discussing loss, unfair situations, and why bad things happen to good people, I recently shared with a friend: “I’ve come to understand I won’t always understand.” Our other friend then added “that’s where faith comes in”. Exactly. Faith means understanding we won’t always understand. God didn’t promise us life would be easy. Actually, Jesus tells …

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