Category:Living in Love

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Strengthen Your Core

Whether your life is going well or not, you need to strengthen your core physically, mentally, emotionally, spiritually. It’s the only way you can live the life God created you to live. So what does strengthening your core look like from where you are today? Your mind cannot be your core because it’s in need of constant renewal, but it does make your choices. Your emotions cannot be your core because they come and go like ocean waves, but they do provide valuable information. Here are a few thoughts about what your core really is. Let me know what you think.

Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.

Don’t become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking. Instead, fix your attention on God. You’ll be changed from the inside out. Readily recognize what he wants from you, and quickly respond to it. Unlike the culture around you, always dragging you down to its level of immaturity, God brings the best out of you, develops well-formed maturity in you. ROMANS 12:2

Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it.

So above all, guard the affections of your heart,
for they affect all that you are.
Pay attention to the welfare of your innermost being,
for from there flows the wellspring of life. PROVERBS 4:23

He will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you.

“I’ll pour pure water over you and scrub you clean. I’ll give you a new heart, put a new spirit in you. I’ll remove the stone heart from your body and replace it with the heart I have for you. I’ll put my Spirit in you and make it possible for you to do what is right and good.” EZEKIEL 36:26

Strengthen your core and see amazing results.

God can do anything, you know — far more than you could ever imagine or guess or request in your wildest dreams! He does it not by pushing you around, but by working within you, His Spirit deeply and gently within you. EPHESIANS 3:20

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Miracles & Mindsets

Miracles and Mindsets: How to Make Way for a MiracleAre you waiting for something? Hoping for a miracle to happen?

Miracles & mindsets go together. You dream of miracles & fail to recognize the mindset that keep you stuck. A new mindset gives you the capacity to receive.

So much of my work as a psychologist has been helping clients move from a negative mindset to one that is positive, good, God-centered. Whether or not she (or he) is a believing Christian. And I want to help you do the same. Because some things need to change before you see change.

You have learned to evaluate yourself and others according to human standards. According to what is visible in terms of behavior & success as you have believed it to be.

You pray for a water-into-wine miracle. However, first you need a new wine skin (a new mindset). A new mindset gives you the capacity to receive the miracle. Otherwise, you would burst from the expansion of receiving all the new. MARK 2:21-22

You dream of miracles, yet fail to recognize the mindset that keeps you stuck.

It’s as though you have blinders on. And removing them can become a lengthy process. But it doesn’t have to be. Here are a several tips to help you redeem the time of your own development. They all involve your active cooperation with The Holy Spirit who speaks to you deep within.

  1. Ask for a spirit of wisdom & revelation, instead of the mindset you now have. EPHESIANS 1:17-18
  2. Read or listen to the Truth every day, expecting an expansion of your understanding as you go. ISAIAH 55:8-9
  3. Meditate upon the fact that your Creator’s mercies never end. LAMENTATIONS  3:22-23
  4. Remember that He has far more in store for your life than you could ever imagine. EPHESIANS 3:20
  5. Surround yourself with others who want to grow. Avoid complainers. Find a spiritual mentor for yourself or join a group of like-minded people. HEBREWS 10:25

* Click and study all the links in this post. They are there to help you grow. And if you have any questions, please let me know. I’m here to help!

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Impossible Hopes

impossible hopes

Once upon a time there lived a girl who was greatly loved by her Father.

He passed away suddenly, leaving her under the care and direction of her step-mother.

Instead of being cherished, she was forced to work as a slave for her step-mother and her two step-sisters.

She quickly lost her identity as a Beloved Daughter.

Fortunately, she had inherited her Father’s optimistic disposition, which enabled her to accept her lot in life without question.

She found comfort in Beautiful Dreams of Adventure and Romance. Her Imagination kept her going. She didn’t realize that it, too, was a Gift from her Father.

One Day she allows one of her dreams to become her wish. An Impossible Wish. The Prince is giving a Ball, and she wishes so very hard that she might be able to go. After reviewing just how impossible it is, she and her Fairy Godmother conclude:

But the world is full of zanies and fools
Who don’t believe in sensible rules
And because these daft and dewy-eyed dopes
Keep building up Impossible Hopes
Impossible Things are happening every day.

Meanwhile at the Castle, The Prince is expected to choose a Bride from among his guests. So many girls – all eager to be his dance partner. Yet they are more like hungry wolves, seeking access to his virtue and his wealth. He’s bored with them all.

Except One. She catches his eye as soon as she arrives. She is so different. Delightful. There only to enjoy the experience – and him. And they soon fall in love.

They have One Unanswerable Question

(watch the clip here):

Cinderella_kissDo I love you because you’re beautiful?
Or are you beautiful because I love you?
Am I making believe I see in you
A girl to lovely to be really true?
Do I want you because you’re wonderful?
Or are you wonderful
Because I want you?
 
Are you the sweet invention of a lover’s dream,
Or are you really as beautiful as you seem?

Suddenly she disappears. Leaving behind only one small Shoe-Clue to her identity.

At home shortly after midnight, she assumes that’s all she gets of her dream. Determined to savor her memory of her encounter with The Prince, she goes back to taking orders as usual. But this time, with Stardust in her eyes.

Little does she know that The Prince’s desire for her as his Beloved consumes him. And he is also determined. To find her. Whoever she is. Wherever she is.

Unlike her, The Prince knows who he is. Royal blood flows in his veins. But he also knows that the Completeness of His Joy depends upon being with her.

Furthermore – He is confident that He is Her Joy and Bliss.

After an agonizing search, he finds her. And she takes her place as His Beloved.

Impossible Hopes? Nope.
So Very Romantic. Just like Jesus and His Bride.

Though we run away in shame, Jesus seeks us – wherever we are – whoever we are. He restores us to the Truth of who we are in Him. And we have the blessed opportunity to demonstrate that. Here and now. To one another. And to the World.

Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word, and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless. (Ephesians 5:25-27)

“You are My Beloved. My Dream come true.”

Watch the Original Production with Julie Andrews!

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