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I’ve been thinking a lot lately about how our actions effect other people around us, whether we mean them to or not. The ability to make or break someone’s day is a lot of responsibility and I think that the way some people from time to time treat those around them is a hugely overlooked thing. To love other people and be able to do it well is a gift and something that you have to grow in and is something that most people don’t automatically just understand, but understand that the way you treat others matters, maybe not to you but to someone else.

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Dear child of God, since you know so little, why not entrust everything to the God who knows all? Since you are so little in power, why not rely on the God who has all strength?

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I don’t know if you can feel God’s presence in your life right now or not, beloved. But please know that, regardless of your feelings, He’s there. He’s with you. And He’s not going anywhere.

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“I want to be able to trust, not live in perpetual self-defense.”

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Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 3: 1939-1944

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Jesus never had a bad attitude at people. He never talked down at people, like he was annoyed by their presence. When we have bad attitudes we put pressure on the people around us to answer however we are feeling and they could have nothing to do with it. It’s living at the expense of a person.

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“For consider Him who endured such hostility from sinners against Himself, lest you become weary and discouraged in your souls. You have not yet resisted to bloodshed, striving against sin.”

— Hebrews 12

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For God so loved the world, that He gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. // John 3:16

love wins because love came down fully God, fully human, and conquered the grave. Love wins because God loves us through our transgressions. Love wins because of Jesus on the cross.

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Jesus paid it ALL. ALL to Him I owe.

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Notice how God looks out for you in the little ways, too.

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“I often think we forget that it is God’s KINDNESS that leads to repentance. We like to fill in the blank with judgment, shame, pressure, false promises, offending or all of the above. We can’t do these things and then expect people to want to dive into God’s deep love for them, because even if they do, they’ll be completely wrong about who He is.”

– my friend Molly Morgen

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“…what we suffer now is nothing compared to the glory he will reveal to us later” (Romans 8:18). This is verse is so true and so comforting. It has helped me through a lot. Yet, even I must be honest with myself and say that God’s promises don’t always feel true. Sometimes, I read a verse and it pierces straight through my heart. Other times, though, they simply seem like black and white words that fall off the page and bounce off my heart. “Such things couldn’t possibly apply to me,” I’ve thought. Of course, God’s promises always ring true no matter who we are or what season we are in.

God’s promises—like Himself—never change, but the same seems to go for your current situation. The pain feels almost palpable, doesn’t it? You feel like you’re surrounded by nothing but darkness. You can’t see a step in front or behind you. Heaven and glory feels, well, an eternity away. You feel trapped—hedged in—with no way out. You don’t even want to begin to think of the future, because you can’t see past this painful present. You try to look forward or up, but your eyes strain and you can barely lift your head. You don’t want to look nor think nor even be.

Still, I want to encourage you to look. Look—not back or around or even to some blissful future where everything is going smoothly for you. Look to your side. Do you see? (You may be thinking, “Of course not. I see and feel nothing but pain and emptiness.”) I want to encourage you again, though: look, with eyes of faith (even if that faith is only the size of a mustard seed). Look, and see that He (Jesus) is with you, as He has always been. He’s not only with you, but He’s bearing you up. He’s not only by your side (as your constant Friend and Companion), but He’s bearing it with you. It’s okay if you can’t feel nor see that right now. Just know that He is with you. He promised to never leave you nor forsake you. You don’t want to bear this alone; you can’t, and you aren’t.

Because He is with you, always, even to the end of the age. If that’s the only truth you can cling to, then cling to it with all your might. If you feel your fingers slipping, that’s okay, because you’ll find He was the One holding your hand all this time. You feel you’re on the edge of breaking, but He’s holding you together.

He’s going to make something beautiful out of you.

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Grace IS amazing

So I've been thinking a lot about grace lately and how often I need it; not even just from Jesus, the people I interact with on a daily basis have it for me, my professor when I turn things in late, my parents, even sometimes strangers. Having the thought of any of these honestly makes the gift of grace even more cool because I am not always a nice person to those whom I love, even though I do love them. And that works the same way with God because even though I know what I'm supposed to do I do things my own way and I make things about me and I mess things up but through the ability to forgive even though I have done nothing to earn it or deserve it. And all of that is because of amazing grace and He think I'm worth it and because of that I need to know that I am but being human is hard and I mess it up and forget but I'm worth it to Him that he will keep forgiving me and I will keep loving him.

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Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.

Matthew 11:28-29. (via calm-mysoul)

Growth.

This semester I have grown. Through the last semester I have gone through feeling like not enough, being treated like second best, confronting a problem and feeling like it got no where, and resolving the problem by taking myself out of the equation leaving in heartbreak. Since then I have prayed, prayed and prayed some more; the things I pray about are ranging from give me peace to give me grace. The situation that I was in and am now in are surprisingly different and mirror each other showing me the growth that has taken place.

Before I was complacent, I was okay with what was going on and if I wasn't okay I wouldn't say anything because I didn't feel like it was place. Now I am determined, If something could be better there is a plan to get there and bring it up to the standard that it could be because His church deserves that.

I was afraid, I thought that if I left I would be hated (given previous experience that wasn't a crazy thought) I was scared that I wouldn't know what to do or that I would lose my love for ministry because I wasn't in it and I saw the other side of not doing anything and love it. Now I’m still afraid but I’m afraid that my kids don't see my love because it looks different, now I'm scared that if I don't get back into ministry I'm going to go crazy because I love what I do so much and want to fill my life with loving on the youth that God puts around me.

The ability to grow has been a blessing on my life, I didn't realize how much till now, till I’m sitting here thinking about where I was, my relationships look different because I have grown; the time I spend on meaningless things has gone down (not saying I don't still do it but I think that its less because I am aware I don't have the time for it anymore). The time I've spent in prayer has grown as has the trust I'm putting in God knowing that my new wine skins are here and He will fill it with new wine. Lastly I’ve put more effort into myself, the ability to grow and to learn how to love yourself better is something that I had before taken for granted, but now to look back and see that I made a conscious decision to love myself over what anyone else told me to do made loving myself easier and loving others more intentional because I know how wonderful it feels to be loved completely everyday by an amazing Father.

“Brothers and Sisters, count it all pure joy when you face trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces patience. But let patience have it’s work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing.” James 1:2-4

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2 things

As of lately I have been taking time away from ministry and in this time I have realized two things about myself...

1. I’m not good at being patient

2. I am sold 110% in the ministry because in this time I miss it.

The time that I have taken for myself to grow and love myself has been good because I feel like I am learning about myself but a the same time I am ready to be back doing what I love. The ability to hang out and love on youth is the best feeling that I have felt, being around them and just being there for them.

In ministry this last year I learned that even when your not sure if they are learning what you are teaching, they are learning by your actions. I want to be around them not because I think I’m such a good influence on them but because without this I feel like I’m not doing what I’m supposed to do and having the ability to do something and not being able to use your gifts and abilities is the worst thing ever.

But in this time away I have talked to a couple people about feeling this way and they have all given similar advice and that was to pray and take this breaks and be patient, I’m trying to do these things but at the same time I don't want to be patient anymore.

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