Ever wrestle with your emotions? Check out our yearlong series on emotions. Each month we explored a different emotion, shared our personal experiences, and provided some spiritual guidance. Enjoy!
This month we are discussing the emotion of contentment. When we were hashing out the storyline for each week’s blog, I decided I wanted to discuss learning to be finally content with my reflection. Not only content but to be truly joyful that I am the woman I see in the mirror. I see now […]
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con·tent·ment (ˈkənˈtentmənt): A state of happiness and satisfaction. When we think of contentment, we think of happiness, satisfaction, and serenity. This month, as we continue our study on the emotion of contentment, we find that contentment means different things to different people. What makes a person happy and/or satisfied? Is it money, kids, material things,
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This week we are shifting our attention to the emotion of contentment. Are you satisfied with your life, your job, your family, or even yourself? If we are being completely honest, most of us are not. We long for an improvement in one or more of these areas. We feel we are lacking something, and
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Hot topic this month – jealousy! And where do we find it? Right after Eve, jealousy returns and enters the life of the next woman mentioned by name in the Bible. Yes, Sarah! Sarah the wife of Abraham, a man known as the father of many nations, a friend of God, and the father of
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Envy. This little four-letter word could possibly be one of the most destructive words in the English language. Are you thinking, Rhonda, that’s quite an exaggeration isn’t it? After all, we have all heard of someone being green with envy, we’ve probably even experienced it ourselves. No harm is done really in most cases, right?
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jeal·ous·y (ˈjeləsē): Envious feeling of discontent and ill will because of an other’s advantages, possessions, etc.; resentful dislike of another who has something that one desires. What is jealousy? Jealousy commonly refers to thoughts or feelings of insecurity or uncertainty, fear or anxiety, and/or concern for a relative lack of possessions. Jealousy can consist of one or
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I have seen it happen over and over again in life. The sincerest of female friendships broken up over a guy. These females may have grown up together, gone through a traumatic period together, or just simply bonded because they had so much in common. But then a male enters the picture and suddenly that
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As I was invited to challenge myself to explore the emotion of freedom, instantly freedom from condemnation came to me. I know in my own walk and within my community of sisters, we struggle to walk in God’s worth because of our past or present sin. We entertain the lies that culture, Satan, and we
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Be free! Live free! Sounds wonderful, doesn’t it? It’s a catchy phrase, but how do I as a mother, wife, employee, boss, or friend actually walk that out in my life. Or for that matter, how do you in yours? None of the roles I play have listed living free as a requirement for me
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freedom (ˈfrēdəm) : the power or right to act, speak, or think as one wants without hindrance or restraint; the state of not being imprisoned or enslaved; the power of will or self-determination attributed to the will; the quality of being independent of fate or necessity Many things can make us feel oppressed. At times, we
