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My goal should never be to raise kids that make me look good. (Oh but how my flesh craves this!) My goal should be to raise kids who love God and spend their lives making His goodness known in their corner of the world.

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If I really want an unrushed life, I must underwhelm my schedule so God has room to overwhelm my soul.
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Calm God Life Myself Peace Rush Schedule Soul
Just because something is hard doesn’t mean it’s impossible.
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Hard Impossible Inspirational Motivational
Remember: even the smallest drop of God’s strength is more than enough to cover our frailties, our shortcomings, and the places where we deem ourselves weak.
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Enough God Ourselves Remember Small Strength Weakness
Getting healthy isn’t just about losing weight. It’s not limited to adjusting our diet and hoping for good physical results. It’s about recalibrating our souls so that we want to change – spiritually, physically, and mentally. And the battle really is in all three areas.
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Areas Battle Body Change Goodness Health Limitation Lose Result Soul Spiritual
Don’t let people’s compliments go to your head and don’t let their criticisms go to your heart.
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Compliment Criticism Head Heart People Yourself
Sometimes it’s the words we choose not to say that speak most loudly about our character.
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Character Choice Ourselves Talk Time Word
Jesus, I don’t want to be a secret keeper with my faith. I want to be a bold and gracious truth proclaimer. For You. With You. Because of You. Me, the unwanted girl whom You loved, redeemed and wanted.
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Faith Grace Love Secret Truth Yourself
The one who obey’s God’s instruction for today will develop a keen awareness of His direction for tomorrow.
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Development Direction Future God Instruction Obey
God is using all of your experiences, both good and bad, to develop your character to match your calling.
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Bad Call Character Development Experience God Goodness Match Yourself
God, I want to see You. God, I want to hear You. God, I want to know You. God, I want to follow hard after You. And even before I know what I will face today, I say yes to You.
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Face God Hard Myself See Yourself
Today, let’s set our minds and hearts on feeling more thankful for what we are than guilty for what we’re not. Let’s cut the threads of guilt with grace.
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Grace Guilty Heart Mindset Ourselves See Thankful
Wise women tuck Godly wisdom into the words they speak and even more into the words they choose not to speak.
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Choice God Talk Wisdom Woman
Don’t put the whole of your identity into the smallness of a situation.
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Identity Situation Small Yourself
Don’t let the hurt of today blind you to the hope of tomorrow. Disappointment ushers in a new appointment.
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Appointment Future Hope Hurt
Trying to fix another person will only add to my anxiety. Letting Jesus work on me is where real progress can happen.
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Anxiety Myself Person Reality Try Work
Scars are beautiful when we see them as glorious reminders that we courageously survived.
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Beautiful Courage Glory Reminder Scars See Survive

My goal should never be to raise kids that make me look good. (Oh but how my flesh craves this!) My goal should be to raise kids who love God and spend their lives making His goodness known in their corner of the world.

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My goal should never be to raise kids that make me look good. (Oh but how my flesh craves this!) My goal should be to raise kids who love God and spend their lives making His goodness known in their corner of the world.

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