Category: transformation

Thankful Thursday

Happy thankful Thursday! How have you been doing with adding gratitude practice to your daily life? Has it been easy or difficult. I know for myself, it has been difficult to add in gratitude consistently. This is despite knowing the importance of adding in gratitude practice. Today, the challenge is to look back over the

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Thankful Thursday

Happy thankful Thursday! I hope that you were able to complete last weeks challenge, however if you were not successful at completing this everyday, the journey started and now it is about continuing to work on it. Remember that as we add gratitude practice into our lives we tend to have a more positive outlook

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Self Care Sunday

Today is the last day of February and we are quickly approaching spring. Spring brings about so many thoughts. In spring we see daylight lasting longer. We see the weather start to get warmer. We see flowers and trees begin to bloom once again. With spring I feel a sense of excitement being to come

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Self-Care Sunday

The journey to better self-care starts with one step. Often times people are overwhelmed by trying to change multiple things at one time to have better self-care. They tell themselves that they will start exercising everyday, and take a hot bath, and start many parts of what everyone had told them is the most important

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Congo Recap

In a couple of hours we will be getting on our flights heading back to California. It seems almost surreal that our time here is ending and we are entering back into our normal lives. When we crossed from Congo into Rwanda we saw such a stark difference. In Rwanda the power was consistent and

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Rwanda Genocide Memorial

Today I spent time at the Rwanda Genocide Memorial and I was reminded how quickly a people group can be almost destroyed. Friends turned against friends solely because they were identified as different tribes. Power is what drove the genocide and deciding that one people group was worthless and less than human. I was reminded

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Can These Bones Live?

Recently I was in a meeting at church and the pastor asked us several questions about the hopes for the new year and there were two that he asked that I just could not answer. He asked “what are you hoping to see God do in you?” And he asked “what are you hoping to

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