All posts tagged NewBeginnings
We’ve all been there. That moment when you realize there isn’t much more that can be said or done. It’s time to end this relationship. Your sense of loss is overwhelming. Your heart cries out, “What just happened?” You want to talk this out with a friend, but you can’t because that’s the issue. Your friend is no longer the one you can turn to.
Today I write to the one who won’t let go,
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Where it all began… Before I go there let’s talk about today.
Do you have someone in your life that is unexpected? An unlikely confidant?
Someone who meets you at your place of need?
Someone who accepts you “as is” in the middle of your life struggles?
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Every adventure has a day one – that moment when you know your life is about to change. I’m talking about the adventures we plan, the ones that begin to take shape in our mind. At first it may simply be a hint of an idea – of an outcome – of a destination. Inside, joy, expectation and perhaps a bit of fear begin to bubble up. Ideas come and go as the adventure gains more clarity and purpose. Change is on the horizon and there’s a voice inside that clamors, “Bring it!”
I’m told that I use the term adventure often and for a variety of reasons.
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Year-end holidays are over; a new year has begun. Many resume their daily routines. Yet others find themselves in that place in between. Unsettled they rummage through the pieces of their life, trying to find some order and purpose to it all. Worry tries to rob them of any forward movement – any steps toward God’s best for them.
I’ve been in that now what? place – more than once in my life. Heart-broken, disappointed and lacking self-confidence I stumbled through false starts.
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I remember the day… the day I met Olaf. At the time his name was Theran. Seriously? What kind of a name is that? Adopting a Boxer was not in my plans that day. I had my heart set on rescuing a Labrador Retriever. But then God… well, He had different plans for us.
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Catapulted! Have you ever experienced a God promotion? Those times when you feel He has moved you to the front of the line?
Out of my comfort zone! God’s call came through loud and clear in prison. What? Yes. I met Carol Kent, the founder and director of the Speak Up Conference at a Toastmasters Gavel Club event at Hardee Correctional, a men’s prison.
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Sometimes I don’t know which road I should take. It gets especially challenging when I allow the voices of past failures to challenge my plans for a New Beginning – or perhaps a Do Over!
My 2015 year-end sabbatical came early. Early Fall after a cross-country RV adventure, I came face-to-face with all the exits and detours that had slowly moved me away from God’s next best step in my life. Yes, even good choices can keep us from God’s BEST choice. Facing your choices,
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You have stepped out in faith and started on a new path. Whatever your motivation, you know beyond a doubt that this new season is in your life. Excited you take your first steps but soon realize how many changes are about to take place. Doubt shows up to slow you down.
New Beginnings come with a price.
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