May 3: HOPE MAKES OUR LIVES PAGE-TURNERS.

Affirmation: I am gentle with myself and my mistakes. I treat my body with love and respect.
“Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own;”‭‭1 Corinthians‬ ‭6:19‬ ‭NIV‬‬ ~~~~

Ponder, Personalize: These 3 verses, 1Thessalonians 5:16-18, give us 3 moment by moment practices that remind us how important our perspective is. Our thinking is shaped by our actions. Live this practice: rejoice, pray, give thanks…always, continually, in all circumstances. It will change your life.❤️


16 ”Rejoice always, 17 pray continually, 18 give thanks in all circumstances; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.“                ‭‭1 Thessalonians‬ ‭5‬:‭16‬-‭18‬ ‭NIV‬‬

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Wholehearted Guidepost from Brené Brown
Which Guidepost do you need to be reminded of today? Perhaps it is self-compassion…and letting go of perfectionism. I don’t consider myself a perfectionist, but I certainly detest making mistakes! I think I need more self-compassion.
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Mastering the 7 Decisions from Andy Andrews
The 7 decisions all work together and do support Wholeheartedness and support the habit to create a life of love and grace.
I remind myself of the active decision…move forward with action. Let’s do this!
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Reading for Today
Walk in Grace. Live in Love. by Bob Goff

May 3

HOPE MAKES OUR LIVES PAGE-TURNERS.

Being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus. 
PHILIPPIANS 1:6 

Sometimes when I've got a few minutes to spare in an airport, I head to the bookstore to flip through some of the new releases. While people rush around me to buy their almonds and newspapers, I flip to the middle and read a page here and there to get a sense of the story being told. 


I get a glimpse of the book when I start in the middle, whether the writer is serious or funny or uses big vocabulary words. I know I miss most of the picture by doing this. It would be crazy to think I could flip to chapter twelve and pick up on the ending to come or why the characters are worth rooting for, right? If l flipped to the middle of a biography, I might think it was a story about a guy trying to get girls to date him in college rather than a story of a beautiful marriage. I might think a pastor's story was a memoir about life in jail because I hadn't gotten to the part where the pastor came to faith in jail. 

 

No book is a chapter, and no chapter tells the whole story. The same is true in our lives: no mistake defines who we are. God sees our mistakes in light of the grace that will turn them into stories of redemption. We're not in the first chapter, and most of us aren't in the last one. We're somewhere in the middle. 

 

Hope makes our lives page-turners. Every good story has some unexpected twists, and even the best hero might lose her way for a few chapters. Don't worry about it. God is writing more chapters. He has the power to turn the story around with us. Don't let one bad chapter (or five) convince you that you know your whole story. You're in one of those middle chapters. There are more to come. 


What chapter are you in right now? 

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