August 26 Shape Your Heart

Affirmation: I am resilient. I move from competition to collaboration.

I am grateful for collaboration.

——-Ponder, Personalize, Practice: Ponder Psalm 34:10 as you memorize it. My focus is on the last phrase: but those who seek the Lord lack no good thing.
“The lions may grow weak and hungry, but those who seek the Lord lack no good thing.” ‭‭Psalm‬ ‭34‬:‭10‬ ‭

Wholehearted Guidepost from Brené Brown

Guidepost 4: Cultivating Gratitude and Joy, Letting go of Scarcity and Fear of the Dark

What is your daily habit for Guidepost 4? Share your ideas. We all need practice cultivating gratitude and joy.

I am grateful for my family friends and our Cypress tribe.

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Mastering the 7 Decisions from Andy Andrews

The Active Decision 

I AM A PERSON OF ACTION. I am Resilient 

I will create a new future by creating a new me. I inspire others with my activity. I am a leader. I will create a habit of lively behavior.

I will walk with a spring in my step and a smile on my face. My activity will create a wave of success for the people who follow me. As a leader, I have the ability to encourage and inspire others to greatness. I do not fear failure, because failure exists only for the person who quits.

I do not quit. I am courageous. I am a leader. I seize the moment. I choose now. I am resilient. 

I am grateful for the resilient mind and body I have.

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Reading for Today

Walk in Grace. Live in Love by Bob Goff

                             AUGUST 26 

WE TRY TO ORGANIZE OUR DAYS. GOD WANTS TO SHAPE OUR HEARTS. 

Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love. EPHESIANS 4:2 

One of my good friends is a world-renowned productivity guru. I bet he gets more done in a day than most people do in a week. He’s got systems and processes, methodologies and technology. He’s like a maestro in front of an orchestra of tasks. To-do lists are the sheet music. He waves his baton and all the objectives are achieved, all the work is done, and no tasks remain. But here’s the thing: sometimes his friendships get lost in his efforts at efficiency. 

While productivity is a great tool to fulfill our commitments, it’s not always the best way to build or maintain the relationships that matter the most to us. I’m not sure how Sweet Maria would respond if I asked her to calendar ten minutes for our morning coffee. What if, in the middle of a rich and needed conversation with her, I announced that I had a “hard stop” in five minutes and we needed to wrap it up. I bet my clothes would end up out on the lawn. 

If you want to be remembered for being efficient, getting things done is good. When we’re in relationships, we need to remember that people aren’t projects with deadlines and deliverables. The same is true in our relationship with God. We want plans and assurances. We would love to give God a deadline for the areas of painful growth or for achieving the big dream we’re trying to get off the ground. We’d love to send God an agenda and a hard stop date for difficulties. But God wants to shape our hearts, not organize our days. Next time you’re tempted to turn your life into a grand plan, leave some space in your days for God to write more beautiful things into your relationships. 

What would change today if you focused more on people than on your projects and deadlines?

JP- God, I am grateful for the people in my life…those in my family, in our Cypress Tribe all over the world, friends  and those who i do not know.