UPDATE ON: “The Resolution for Women,” a book I am reading on how to serve my God, my husband, my children, and others based on biblical principles. Click here to see the full resolution in: “To live, love, & lead on purpose.”
Hey there! Just wanted to share a few truths that I have read in “The Resolution for Women” so far. This book has been so inspiring and also so challenging. It is one thing to type quotes onto a blog, it is another thing to put the quotes/truths into practice. One minute I will feel total motivation to take on this resolution, and the next minute I feel so inadequate. The good news is: I have Jesus to pick me up and dust me off again. I can fail and he will still love me—that is the most powerful source of motivation there is! Nevertheless, please keep me accountable to these following truths and please encourage one another to commit to these resolutions. I really believe that they are life-changing, family-changing, world-changing resolutions when you have Jesus fueling your heart.
“Today we hear a philosophy of happiness that’s actually been training us for a long time not to be happy. It says there’s always something else, something more, some additional requirement we need before we can really enjoy life the way it was meant to be enjoyed. So the advertisements bombard us with suggestions dripping with recommendations intended to whet our appetites and tantalize our taste buds, encouraging us to get rid of the old and acquire the new, to be dissatisfied with what we already have.”
“The more you believe that God’s grace to you is overflowing, the more you’ll be convinced that you will always have everything you need…You may want it but it’s not necessary in order to accomplish what He knows is most important for your life today. Otherwise he’d have given it to you.” <<-Wow, that one really touched my heart.
“Life this moment. Pour yourself out. Drain the experience of each precious day. And be prepared for God’s overflowing blessing.”
“Maybe it feels as if choosing contentment is a simultaneous choice to quell your desires and silence your future aspirations, to quit ever hoping for more. On the contrary, contentment is the equilibrium between the enjoyment of life now and the anticipation of what is to come.Contentment serves as a guard against desires gone wild. It is the key to unlock you from the bondage of unrestrained longing that wells up within your heart and inevitably begins to control your life, making you a slave to what you don’t have instead of a fully engaged participant with what you do.”
Wow—isn’t the most freeing feeling in the world to be content? Jesus gave me a taste of that when I asked him to come into my life 9 years ago. I still forget how to balance gratitude and anticipation but I am reminding myself day by day that what I have is not only enough, it is good. This is how I feel when I am content in Christ…(ryland took the following shot of me in my wedding dress on Vilano Beach.—I have such a great second shooter!)
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I DO SOLEMNLY RESOLVE TO EMBRACE MY CURRENT SEASON OF LIFE AND WILL MAXIMIZE MY TIME IN IT. I WILL RESIST THE URGE TO HURRY THROUGH OR CIRCUMVENT ANY PORTION OF MY JOURNEY BUT WILL LIVE WITH A SPIRIT OF CONTENTMENT.
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