Congratulations to our Greenwood Commonwealth's People's Choice Winners: Jan Locke, Best Teacher K-6, Heather Johnson, Best Teacher 7-12, and Pam Tribble, Best Secretary!
If we don’t lay being grumpy, negative, anxious, selfish, and angry down at the cross… we’ll carry it with us everywhere. Changing locations won’t fix what we carry inside of us.
Feeling the pain is the first step toward healing the pain.
We can numb it, ignore it, or pretend it doesn’t exist, but those options lead to an eventual breakdown, not a breakthrough.
The longer we avoid the feeling, the more we delay our healing.
#ItsNotSupposedToBeThisWay
God, help us to stop trying to fix, control, and achieve what You want us to slow down enough to receive.
We don't have to kick it into high gear. We don't need to wear our bodies ragged and our emotions into a tangled fray.
You have the answer. You are the solution.
Lord, help us make peace with the fact we will disappoint people. Help us make peace with the fact other people will disappoint us. And give us the perspective that not every disappointment is epic.
Your heart is much too beautiful of a place for bitterness, anger, and resentment.
That hurt you experienced is real. But it’s taken enough away from you.
Time to let some peaceful and pleasant seeds take root and flourish and crowd out the weeds.
We are very proud of our Maggie for catching this image of the fence at our church. You see this is a special fence because many times in her toddler years she played on the church playground when it was behind this fence. Now, our prayer garden is behind this fence.
"Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect." - Romans 12:2
Recalling some words a wise and caring brother I hadn’t met sent to me 3 months ago. I have a feeling some of you who also stick your necks out there could use them:
Take care to allow God to tend to & mend your soul. Unrelenting attack & vitriolic words have an erosive effect.