There are seasons in life where it feels like nothing is working—where everything familiar starts to fall apart instead of fall into place. But what if the breaking isn’t a sign of failure… what if it’s the beginning of becoming? This is a reflection on hidden transformation, renewal of the mind, and how God often does His deepest work in the seasons we would never choose.
Category: Acceptance
Invisible vs Visible
Have you learned to live with your mask? Or maybe you wear many different masks? Because your hustling for worthiness and continue to numb yourselves so that you do not feel or show your vulnerability to others. By holding a mask at all costs, because what if they would discover the real you? Who is …
Dig up the root to find the truth!
Have you ever wondered why we do the things we sometimes do? Maybe you are unaware that you are doing it! Sometimes the things we struggle with is rooted in something that might seem unrelated to the behavior itself. I have been guilty of saying, "I'm going to stop doing this. As if it was …
Authentic Self
Have you struggled to share your authentic self with others? Do you even know who your authentic self is? When I think of being authentic, I think of a person who wears no makeup. I am not saying that a person who wears makeup is not genuine. I am saying this is what comes to …
Take off the old self and grab ahold of the new!
This week I had a young man tell me that his soon to be mother-in-law didn’t want him to marry her daughter. I asked why, “He said, she still sees me like the old person I use to be”. A few months back, this young man began to recognize things in him that he was …
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