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One challenge of reading a book like The Best Yes is the application. Reading a book is one thing. Doing something with what you’ve learned is hard. Hard work. Hard remembering. Hard applying. So what can we do? Here are a few suggestions: 4 steps to applying new #principles to your life. #TheBestYes #challenge Click To Tweet 1) Take …
We moved Saturday. The chaos is OVERWHELMING. Utterly, completely, creativity-killing overwhelming. Because we only moved a mile, this has been the long move. Literally, we’ve been moving things off and on for months. But Saturday, with the help of AMAZING friends, we moved the furniture. It’s kind of mind-boggling how much stuff 6 people have. I thought we’d done a …
This week in the Best Yes we had a great conversation about people pleasing. Is anyone out there a people pleaser? Please don’t leave me hanging in my struggling-to-recover-from-people-pleasing reality. Do you live in a people-pleasing reality? Join @cara_putman as she talks about the cycle. Click To Tweet People Pleasing is wired into some of us. I know as an …
…In moments when I’m focused on all that’s around me, all that I’d like to say yes to, it’s so easy to lose patience with myself. With my kids. With the life I’m living right now. I can know this is exactly where I’m supposed to be — I really believe it is. But I still have times when I wonder, “What if?”…
Our group is almost done reading the Best Yes, and we had an interesting discussion last night. One in which I was pretty vulnerable. If you know me, you know I tend to do that. But as we were discussing the chapter on the Awkward Disappointment of Saying No, I really resonated with Lysa’s example of being at an award’s show where …
Imagine the scene with me. A woman has been asked to help with something that is worthwhile. Maybe it’s a ministry. Maybe it’s one of her kids’ activities. Maybe it’s at her job. Maybe it’s to take a job. This woman loves God with everything in her. Her heart’s sole desire is to chase Him and do His will in …
This week I’ve continued to think about wisdom and how we acquire it for the decisions in our lives. Maybe it’s not about how to schedule our time. Maybe instead our decision is about a job, where to live, whether to sell a house, how to parent a child, etc. There are so many areas in our lives that demand wisdom. As …
This week, we talked about chapters 4 and 5 in our study of The Best Yes. There’s so much meat in those chapters. When I originally typed meat, it was meet. That seems so appropriate as I think about it. Finding wisdom is about the process of meeting with God, meeting with the Holy Spirit, and meeting with those who …
Yesterday I posted this on the Grove. This. This is where I am right now. This is the realness of my life. Can anyone relate? This is a place we can be honest about where we’re really living, right? My life is messy. Embrace the messiness of life and discover joy in the muddle. Click To Tweet I like boxes…everything …
Joy is such a powerful and misunderstood word. (I may not be as creative as some of my friends here on The GROVE, but I wanted to share my heart 🙂 ) So often we think JOY means I’ll be HAPPY. Such different words. Websters says that JOY is “the emotion evoked by well-being, success, or good fortune …