Okay, so I agree today's blog title is a little weird, but stick with me. How often have you found yourself in a situation where you were looking at what other people's lives looked like and either: 1. Wished your life looked more like their's or 2. Were secretly thanking God your life doesn't look… Continue reading Giving Up Looking at Other People’s Grass
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Giving up the Pursuit of Happiness
Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. The American Dream, right? While I am so thankful to life in a country with considerably more freedom than many in the world, I sometimes wonder if our lofty ideals actually make us sell ourselves short. What I find most interesting about these "rights" found in our Declaration… Continue reading Giving up the Pursuit of Happiness
Giving Up the Fear of Being Too Much
While it seems somewhat strange to have opposite fears going on in our mind, I think it happens a lot. Yesterday we talked about the fear of not being enough, but equally as frustrating can be the fear of being too much. Where it's because of false humility or, once again, the ugly game of… Continue reading Giving Up the Fear of Being Too Much
Giving Up The Fear of Not Being Enough
Why would they choose you? What do you have to offer? What makes you think that you could ever do that, especially with your past?!? These and other similar lies are questions that I have to believe all of us have thought at one time or another. I see these kinds of doubts in myself.… Continue reading Giving Up The Fear of Not Being Enough
Giving Up Fear in Loneliness
If you've ever taken a Myers Briggs personality test, you know that one of the spectrums that you are rated on is I and E ... Introvert and Extrovert. We often think of extroverts as loud and outgoing and introverts as more isolated. While that is part of it, this is also measuring how someone… Continue reading Giving Up Fear in Loneliness
Giving Up The Fear of What Other People Think
My dearest child, I see you. I see you craving the approval of others. I see you paying attention to each "like" or "retweet". I see the way your fear of what people think dictates your life. I see you and it breaks My heart. When will you stop living for the opinions of others?… Continue reading Giving Up The Fear of What Other People Think
Giving Up My Fear of Failure
Back at the beginning of January I wrote a post called "Grace... to Fail". In it, I describe a day where I tried something in which "failure" felt quite possible. There was pure joy in that day knowing that despite the outcome, I tried something that my perfectionist, afraid-to-fail, self would have normally kept me… Continue reading Giving Up My Fear of Failure
Giving Up Fear…
What do a dark room, a tall building, and spiders have in common? They all top the list of things people fear. While those may be the first things that come to mind, I actually believe there's another list of top fears that are perhaps even more common. Things like fear of what other people… Continue reading Giving Up Fear…
SUNDAY JOY: I Choose TRUTH!
When people count the 40 days of Lent (such as me and this blog series of 40 Days of Giving Up), it doesn't include the Sundays. The thought process behind this is that even though Lent is a somewhat solemn time to focus on the sacrifice of Jesus in his death, each Sunday of the… Continue reading SUNDAY JOY: I Choose TRUTH!
Giving Up Over-Commitment
Yesterday I talked about giving up the concept of being busy. But what does that really look like? It's impossible in a practical sense to give up a spirit of busyness without also giving up things like today's topic: over-commitment. I do believe it is possible, and sometimes God-honoring, to have a schedule that is really… Continue reading Giving Up Over-Commitment
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