Successfully Aligning Daily Activities with Purpose, while Embracing Beauty, Joy & Praise
Being in an edifying environment helps to promote personal and professional development. The eighth edition of the Pocket Oxford Dictionary defines edify as to ‘improve morally or intellectually’. Ephesians 4:29 states ‘let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers’. If we are feeling discouraged that our efforts are not effective, a safe environment can …
Self-reflection provides us with the space to do personal strategic thinking and develop our intervention tactics. Let us consider the question: what matters most? There are times we may think that what we are doing is not allowing us to do what matters most. But I have learned that sometimes the things we consider not …
Have you ever explored your life experiences that resulted in your present routines and schedules? We all grew up in specific environments. We saw how people around us lived - what they did, and how they did their activities. If you were to reflect, do your schedules and routines mirror the schedules and routines of …
I have recognized that asking reflective questions, while seeking the Holy Spirit’s guidance, has brought healing, clarity, direction and purpose to my life. One of those questions are, what is God’s will for my life? It is so easy to just go through the motions each day, trying to just complete all the responsibilities on …
I have been exploring the topic of being 'Rested and Pressing on'. This topic fits within the overall theme of Christian Life Balance, which is an area of focus for me.There will always be things to do and goals to achieve. But we need the required rest as we continue to move forward and achieve.I …
If you haven’t as yet, I invite you to read my previous blog post - Planning in the Christian Life Part 1. If we recognize that we have over committed, planning may give us time to rearrange schedules, so that we can reduce our stress. Also if we have to say no to requests, we …
(To listen to the podcast episode for this blog post click here). We can trust God to lead us now and in the future; and it is reassuring that God has plans and a purpose for each of us. So as Christians when we look at planning, we look at planning in the context of …
(To listen to the podcast for this blog post click here) With so much that is going on and so many choices and voices that are calling out for our attention, it is important that we really have clarity surrounding how we live our lives. The focus here is on: - approaching our lives through …
(To listen to the podcast for this blog post click here) Have you ever been in a situation when someone was trying to explain something to you, but only when you saw it for yourself you actually understood what they were talking about? Or someone was describing what they ate and how good it tasted, …
(To listen to the podcast for this blog post click here ) Maybe identity is not something that we think about consciously, but when I reflect on what identity means and how it is a part of our lives, I recognize that we are naturally identified and referred to based on the persons that we …
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