Have you been longing for a relationship? A person capable of delay in gratification and self-control is able to love well. If someone cannot control their own desire and delay their own pleasure, what makes you think he/she can sacrifice for you?
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I too was someone diagnosed with severe clinical depression and anxiety. This isolated season, being alone with my thoughts, often led me to spiral back into unhealthy thought patterns, I had once tasted freedom from. Life, as we know it has changed. In this season of loss and tried, we need extra doses of hope, extra doses of joy, and extra doses of encouragement. Let’s lean in to the hope we have in Jesus
I haven’t been well and I want to get well. So I went to my favorite location on earth, the beach. It’s through surfing that I learn about my disordered desires and to find true rest by surrendering to God’s timing and God’s way to the ocean of trust.
This journey, was a journey of becoming from abiding.
It was this dream He put in my heart that I was walking into. It was this posture of surrendering, of Jesus knowing what He is doing, that gave me the courage to step out. This is my journey of becoming.
Our world is full of exhausted and overstressed adults, raising overscheduled children. Hyperproductivity is the norm and everyone’s chief end seems to be on “IPO”s or “exiting”. Hear me out, let go of exhaustion as a status symbol and productivity as your self-worth.