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Life

Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving Everybody! 🦃

It has been a year of growth, of change, of new opportunities, along with some struggles and rough spots along the way. God has really been moving through this year and I am so thankful for that. I am also thankful for the new opportunities that are in front of me. I am thankful for the new people that I have met this year and the people that have been there for me for weeks, months, and years. I am thankful for what has happened – good or bad.

Have a great Thanksgiving everybody! 🤗 🙏

Please put those electronic devices away when you are with family and friends this weekend.  You never know how many of these moments you’ll get. 📵

Life, Tech

Interruptus Maximus

We live in a world where we have constant interruptions from what we are doing. Phones notifying you of the latest and greatest game requests, ads that start playing sound randomly on the page, random things happening around, we have many interruptions and a lot of things that are trying to grab our attention. All of these things are also taking us away from the quiet moments that we really need to regularly experience.

If we don’t have those moments, I feel that we start to lose focus on what is really going on in our lives and everything just starts to become noise. When there is that much noise, we can’t hear what really is going. All that noise can prevent you from looking at things and seeing what really may have happened.

All of these interruptions are taking us out of the moments we are in. It could be a quiet moment of peace or out and about with others. The noise just takes over whatever we are doing.

I believe that we do need to have those moments of quiet. Those are the moments that we can go back and look at what is happening and where things really are. Those moments of reflection and peace are really important to life.

Personally, I will use a lot of the “Do Not Disturb” modes to help keep me in the moment or in the quiet times. It really help, even though I get as many notifications as some people do. It really makes a difference for me.

Life

Losses Can Be Wins

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It is never easy when you feel like you lose something that you feel is important to you. There is a reason for why it might be being taken away from you, even if you can’t see it right away. Yes, it may hurt, but in the long run it might just be the best thing that happened.

Life

Progress in Perspective

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People seem to get caught up in the fact that they are not a the ultimate goal of the journey that they forget about and don’t realize all the progress that they have made toward it. They look at what they don’t have and not what they do have.

Life

“Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow…”

Sometimes life throws you curve balls. You may not have any idea what the future holds. You may not even know where to begin right away. Being anxious does nothing to help with this. It takes things out of perspective and takes you away from where you should be going. Over thinking can be a bad thing.

This is something that I have worked through a lot lately. There have been unknowns with work, personal life, future – you name it, there has likely been an unknown in that area lately for me. I don’t know where things are going to be going. There are things that felt like they were going to be good, but turned out not so good. There are areas where it seems like everything is in a fog. It is easy for this to make things unsettled for people, but it doesn’t have to paralyze you and I am trying to not let it paralyze me.

What this season is teaching me is increased trust and faith in God. We know we have a loving and caring God who will provide in His timing, not ours. It takes faith and trust go let go our how we want to control our live and let Him take control and to not worry and be anxious about what is going on.

“Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life? And why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin, yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is alive and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? Therefore do not be anxious, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ For the Gentiles seek after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them all. But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.
“Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.
– Matthew 6:25-34

While this hasn’t been the easiest season for me, I am learning and growing through this.

Life

Growth

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In order to grow, you are going to have to get out of your comfort zone. You are going to have to do things that aren’t easy. Once those things start to feel more natural, you know you’ve made some progress. There are places recently that I have really felt this.

Life

Resolve to make good resolutions

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I think that having a New Year’s Resolution/goal/whatever you want to call it is not a bad idea. However, you have to make it something that is attainable. I feel that some on the resolutions made are just too far of a stretch or setting people up for failure that they are not good ones to make.