GeorgiaShaffer

Author of A Gift of Mourning Glories: Restoring Your Life after Loss, Professional Certified Coach, PA Lic. Psychologist, and ReBUILD coaching groups.

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When You Experience Grief AND Relief https://t.co/h2AUmC8OPn

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If you are not intentional to allow your soul to catch up with your body, I promise it will never take place. Resolve to invest in time to do what is “nothing” in the eyes of the world. In God’s eyes, you are doing something for your greater good.

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What are you resolving to do in 2021? What are you setting your heart to do?

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He did evil because he did not set his heart to seek the Lord.--King Rehoboam in 2 Chronicles 12:14 (NIV)

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Have you ever considered making a New Year’s resolution to do nothing? Rather than declaring you will lose twenty pounds or exercise three times a week, resolve to take some time to do nothing. Nothing at all.

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"I know not the way God leads me, but well do I know my Guide.”
Martin Luther

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There is power in observing and learning from others who model what we might be living or worried about.

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If during this holiday season you find yourself set aside from the busyness of life, understand that while you may feel useless, that doesn’t mean God sees you that way – and other people may be watching.

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In "Streams in the Desert", George Matheson writes that serving the Lord by waiting or resting can be the most useful spot in our lives.

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We may want to reach out and minister to others, but sometimes we are forced to wait, pause, or rest.

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Don’t compare your thoughts about yourself and decide what someone else is thinking about themselves. None of us are mind-readers!

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Before you get caught in this compare-and-despair trap, consider to whom you’re about to compare yourself. Would you say this person is in the average range or at one extreme or the other?

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Your comparisons of yourself may not be based in reality. Turns out, most of us rarely compare ourselves to the average person.

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Don’t blindly accept someone’s lies or perceptions of you...No matter how important that person is to you, don’t give them that power.

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As you re-assess what you want your life to look, don’t forget to take a good look in the mirror and see if you are truly the person you want to be.

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To one who listens, valid criticism is like a gold earring or other gold jewelry. (Proverbs 25:12)

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If you listen to constructive criticism, you will be at home among the wise. (Proverbs 15:32 NLT)

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As best-selling author Dr. John Townsend suggests, be "curious rather than defensive" when someone tries to give you feedback about yourself. Take the risk and ask some of your closest, loving, truth-telling friends how they see you.

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What if your friends could perceive you as a “concentrated package of energy”? Would they say you bring God's light, peace, love, and joy to them? Or would they say you rob them of His life-giving spirit?

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Have you ever considered what kind of energy YOU bring to your relationships?