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🌟 NEW BLOG POST 🌟 Check out my most recent post, How I Got Faith-Based Goal Planning Wrong. Link in profile! Except: “If you’re like me, you give in to the temptation of both extremes. One day trying to figure out God’s plan for my life, and the next wanting to be free from all expectations and pressure to perform. This yo-yo way of goal planning has been my life, and I’m ready to walk in the way God has for me.” At the end of the post I have my sign up for my five-day faith-based goal planning series that will be out the end of this month!! Share a fun emoji below if you plan to join in!
No quiet for this gal this morning. After having such victory with getting up at 5 AM last week, starting my Monday at 7 AM has me so bummed out. It makes me think of the ways I’m failing God in my disobedience and what I’m missing out on. Yet I’ve learned when my heart instantly goes to a place of being defeated there is often something deeper worth exploring. A disappointment comes from an expectation that often points to a idol and way I’m not living in the freedom God desires. As I reflected I realized when fail to wake up early, or do whatever I set my mind to, I see my desire for routine and consistency going from a good thing I’m responding to in freedom to an act of religious duty. I become disappointed with myself because I make something part of the equation of what I need to do to worship God. The enemy wants nothing more than to take what God is giving in freedom and make it a box you have to check so you can feel like a failure when you don’t check it. This is the problem with my agenda and my goals. I end up living disappointed when God is simply calling me into something different for that day. Does he love when I wake up at 5 AM and spend time with him? Of course! He wants every moment of my time. But I’m the one who puts my quiet time with him in a box and says it needs to look like a specific time, sitting at my desk with my heated blanket and tea. While God designs rhythms of life to help us hold onto the the disciplines of faith that we are to cling closely to. God desires us to walk in obedience free of guilt and shame. If that’s true, we need to walk in agreement with Him and not create structures that dictate an output in our life. Because my self-sufficient desire to check off a box on my habit tracker isn’t an act of worship. Carrying shame from failing at a spiritual discipline is the last thing he desires So today, I wake up late in freedom because God desires to use my life for his purpose. Hebrew 12:1 - Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And let us run with perseverance the race marked out f
Happy Saturday! 🍁🍂 I hope you all are enjoying time doing the things you love most!! I’m spending the day editing all the photos while my husband sleeps! Hoping to get caught up so I spend time working on all the things in regards to the vision God has given me for this page! I shared in my blog post from yesterday how God gave me theses three phases! Did you get a chance to check it out!? Link is in my profile where I share how God birthed the vision of my blog exactly nine months after he had told me I was pregnant with an idea!! He is so crazy amazing. I’ll be sharing part 2 on Monday! Where has God shown up in your life recently that has left you in awe and wanting to use the 🙌🏼 emoji!
Happy Friday!! How about a five facts post! This time it’ll be about my blog! I found it fitting since my new blog post which is Part 1 of my crazy Blog Birth Story is live! Link is in my profile! 1️⃣ In 2010 I had aspired to pursue photography, so I watermarked my images "Beautiful Life Photography". A few years later I started an etsy shop hoping to use the same name but it was taken so I added "one" to the beginning. Ever since then it's become a mission and vision for my life. Helping others with their One Beautiful Life whether that’s through something I create or now with my words and resources. 2️⃣A big vision for my blog is to have a program to help people with goal planing that is faith based and founded on Christ. I'd like to create resources that meet people where they are at in life and faith to help them take the next right next step into what God has for them. 3️⃣I desire to share so much in regards to the tips and tricks I enjoy in my life. I still wrestle with the thought of being arroant to share the way I live. That coupled with the fact I live in the deep end for most things I fear being too much. However, God keeps showing me he has created me this way for a purpose so I continue to step out in this! 4️⃣Ever since I was a child I was all about documenting life. It looked different back then and I don't have the best memory. However, I do know life goes so fast and now as an adult I don't want to look back and forget the life I lived. Every time I can reflect on a prior season in my life I can see God's hand and having done the work to document that season it allows me to live encouraged and grounded as I walk into new season with Him. And hope to inspire others to do the same. 5️⃣At the end of the day, my heart is for helping people plan, live and document life built on the foundation of Jesus. However, I know he is in control and I don't want to be doing anything he doesn't have for me so this can easily change at any moment! I'd love for you to share what aspect of what I shared above would be most valuable for you in your life?
What does thankfulness look like for you in this season? For the month of November, I'm giving @illustratedfaith’s Gratitude Documented challenge #if_gratitudedocumented a try. It’s a free download in their #printprayshop!! Now that I've been working on the challenge for a week it's opening my heart to just how foundational thankfulness is and how God does not desire our days to exist without it. I easily go about my life not stopping for a moment to reflect on what God is doing in the middle of it. Stopping over this past week has helped me to see the ways I act so spoiled and entitled to all the good gifts he's abundantly given me. As I put my thankfulness on paper, my eyes become more open to his wondrous works. It has also been getting my attention in new ways and feeling so thankful for this challenge. Having an attitude of thankfulness looks different for each person, and I'd love to know what it looks like for you! Share below practical ways you walk out the call to thankfulness. I Thessalonians 5:18 – “…in everything give thanks; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.”
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Hello November! GIVEAWAY 🎃➡️🎄 The first of the month is seriously my favorite day every month! It inspires new ideas and energy like no other day of the month. But can I be honest, as we get closer to the end of the year, I’m overwhelmed by the feeling of needing to buy all the things or spend all my time planning for next year. Aren’t you? Want to know the truth? You don’t need buy anything or complete some lengthy process to set goals and intention for each day, week, month or year. Repeat after me, it isn’t necessary! This pressure to plan or have some elaborate goal planning is real, and people will spend a lot of time or worst yet never get started because of overwhelm and they feel. And that bums me out! You end up like me, looking back over the past months thinking you suck at goal planning because you don’t have a perfectly curated plan completed. Or worst yet, you may believe that goal planning isn’t for you. Don’t believe the hype. It’s totally not your fault if you’ve tried goal planning and struggled to be successful with it. That’s why I want to share what does work and how I’ve found freedom AND plan my life factoring in what God has called me to. But I’ll be sharing more about that soon! In the meantime, I have a question. Have you tried goal planning and it didn’t work? What’s your experience with it? 💙💚💛🧡❤️💜 To enter the giveaway, comment below and tomorrow I’ll select one person to receive a $5 Starbucks gift card!
Day two of my morning time at my new desk and God did not disappoint. I’m learning it’s not the means by which we study but the heart behind our obedience to show up and meet with him. He has used these two studies together in a way I would never imagine. I posted more about this on IGTV in all my imperfection in hopes to encourage you to show up where God is calling you in all of your imperfection. I’d love for you to check it out and share your thoughts! Just head over to my IGTV (link in my highlights) to check out my first video (warning you it’s full of all sorts of imperfection). How is God calling you to be obedient in your creativity today?