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Living with what I could change, but don’t!

Living with what I could change, but don’t!

I have heard, "just live with it" many times in life, and it upset me because they did not have to live with it, I did! And at times, friends and family added a caveat to try and make me feel better, like, "just live with it, for now." They did not understand that it did not make me feel better, it left me feeling hopeless. But even more difficult to handle is when I heard, "just live with it" within myself. And the unspoken caveat in me was, "because you know it will never change, even though it could." Ouch! Then through prayer and self-reflection, I realized there were things I found "the art of living with" in my life. Knowing I could change but didn't was heartbreaking until I grabbed onto the hope of God's Word and the grace…

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Divided Disciplines and It Is Working

Divided Disciplines and It Is Working

My disciplines changed as I journeyed into my "hereafter" season. It is now divided, and it is working. Discipline is defined as a sense of "mortification by scourging oneself" from Middle English. Or via Latin "action based on instruction or knowledge". For most of us, we desire to have a level of discipline in various areas of life such as stopping bad habits like smoking or drinking or implementing good habits like walking or eating more vegetables daily. We do not have to be organized by nature to desire discipline, because discipline is a practice or behavior versus organized being a character trait. And like many behaviors or practices we develop in life, they will change as your life changes seasons. Change always comes, we can not stop it, but we can benefit from it if we embrace the change with…

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