Tag: #soulspresso
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Rest is God’s Blessing
Do you ever feel guilty about taking a break, just stopping to rest? There’s part of you that’s saying “I am so fried I just need to rest” but another part of you is saying “But there’s so much that still needs to be done” or “but this other person (coworker, friend, spouse) is still…
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You Don’t Need Perfect Apples to Bake a Perfect Pie
How are great marriages and great pies alike? They both start with great (but not perfect) ingredients, and wind up with something truly amazing.
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What Has Forged You?
In the movie King Arthur: Legend of the Sword Arthur has to learn to fully face the pain that forged his character to fully wield the strength he possesses. We likewise have to look at what has forged us in order to wield the strength that we possess as well.
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What Do You Deserve?
What we think and how we feel make a huge difference in how we experience our life. Looking at and upgrading what we think about what we deserve in life can radically change our future.
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God Is Always On Time
“A wizard is never late, nor is he early. He arrives precisely when he means to,” said Gandalf the Grey. Even as the impatient hobbits had to learn to trust Gandalf, we need to learn to trust in the perfect timing of God’s grace in our lives.
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God Is Always Guiding
I love using my Google Maps iPhone app when I’m driving to someplace I’ve never been before. Just think about all it does for me, from the second I start the car until I arrive at my destination: 1- It knows exactly how to get to my destination– I don’t have to worry about it.…
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You’re not on your last page yet…
Do you ever find it hard to hope in God when it seems like you’ve hit a wall, a situation you can’t possibly win? When I feel that way I remember the last act of Star Wars VI: Return of the Jedi. For our beloved heroes all seems lost. Han & Leia are surrounded by stormtroopers, Luke…
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Make a Gratitude List for your Love
Here’s a fun project for you to do today that’s guaranteed to make a difference in your life: Make a gratitude list for your love. Now, I don’t mean a list of fifty ways to leave your lover, but rather a list of all the ways your life has changed for the better because of someone special…
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God Loves Us
I thought a lot about what I would write about for Easter. I thought about so many theological things I could say. I’ve read whole books just on the topic of Easter. But I felt led to not talk about what Easter means to me theologically, and simply say what Easter means to me personally.…
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Unfold Your Wings
A butterfly learns patience. It spends what seems like a dark eternity in a cocoon. One day, its world opens up, it feels the warm sunlight once again, and these strange but beautiful new parts of itself (what are they called? wings?) start to slowly unfold. Once they are fully unfolded, the butterfly can finally take…
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Look for Grace
I truly believe that God is wanting to bless our lives every day in a multitude of ways both big and small. I believe he wants to give each of us huge amazing miracles that blow us away and change our lives forever. And I believe He is equally eager to sprinkle our lives liberally with sweet everyday…
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What Colors Are You Painting With?
Let’s imagine that you want to paint a picture of a bowl of blueberries. You just happen to be a skilled artist with a new blank canvas, so you’re all ready to go. But you look down and to your dismay you see that the only paint colors you have are black, red, and yellow. Now…
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Create Simple Beauty
I was sitting in the lobby of Disney’s Boardwalk Inn, thinking about what I should write, and a cast member (what Disney calls their employees) approached a couch next to me, took a seat pillow that had gotten shifted by someone sitting there yesterday, and placed it back where it belonged. That simple act is one of the…
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What Would You Do if You KNEW You Would Fail
I was listening to a terrific interview with author Elizabeth Gilbert yesterday. She was talking about her long journey as a writer and the commitment to learning her craft that it took. When she was fifteen years old she made a conscious decision that her life purpose was to be a writer. She finished her…
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Go to Your Happy Place
As I’m typing these words, I am in “The Happiest Place on Earth“— the place that brings me more joy than perhaps anyplace else on this planet— Disney World. But when I say “Go to your happy place”— I’m not talking about spending a small fortune to see a cartoon mouse. I’m talking about going…
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Be the Person Your Dog Knows You Are
You may have heard the phrase “Be the person your dog thinks you are.” I would like to take that a step farther, and tell you to be the person your dog KNOWS you are. Since dogs give us such unconditional love and acceptance, we think “oh, they don’t know about all my failures and…
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You Don’t Have to Earn Your Life
One of the most moving scenes in modern cinema is the closing scene of Saving Private Ryan. Tom Hanks is dying, and in his last words he pulls young Private Ryan to his face and whispers “Earn this… Earn it.” And as the camera dissolves we see Ryan, now an old man, staring down at the…
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Write Your Own Story
In the 1998 movie The Truman Show Jim Carrey thought he had a great life and that we was in control. What he gradually discovers is that his entire life had been part of a giant reality show, and all the things he took for granted as being true were really just part of someone…
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Don’t Pray Like a T Rex!
What do I mean by “Don’t Pray Like a T-Rex?” Everybody knows all the jokes about t-rexes and their tiny arms, and how limited they are because of them. In a famous cartoon a t-rex asks another “How much do you love me?” and the other one tries to spread apart their arms and gets the…
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Try the Door
A classic experiment in animal behavior goes something like this: You have a lab rat that has to push a handle to get food. After a while, you rig the handle so that the rat gets an electric shock when he tries to touch it. After a few days, you can take the shock away, but the rat…
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Roses Don’t Need Rules
You don’t need to give a rose a rulebook. You don’t need to teach a tulip. You don’t even need to coach a carnation. Why? Because it’s natural for flowers to be beautiful. It’s wired into their deepest being. No rules, no teaching, no coaching of any kind needed in my garden. Now, there’s some things flowers need to…
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Be Truly Helpful
Here’s your project for today: Be truly helpful to one person. Not your run of the mill, everyday politeness and the I’m doing what a normal person would do kind of helpful, but a deep, thoughtful, get down in your gut and bring up your best kind of helpful. Why is that your project? First,…
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Try Some New Shoes
Sometimes we are facing a problem or situation or decision and we feel like there’s just no good answer. We go around and around in our head but still can’t seem to come to a plan of action that we are one hundred percent behind. Might I suggest trying on some new shoes? No, not…
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Let Beauty Touch You
Our hearts and souls are designed to respond to beauty. Beauty is probably, after love, what is most nourishing and most vital to our healthy souls. But it’s so easy in the hustle and bustle of everyday life to not find time for beauty. Fortunately for us, beauty is all around us, if we…