Love Them Anyway

“People don’t need information; they want examples” Bob Goff You know those times that you feel like God is trying to challenge your heart? You read things and you hear things much like our church sermon recently, and it’s God trying to reach you again. This has happened to me recently, and I am no longer trying to run and hide from this. I am going to accept His challenge for me and work towards it. Over the last couple of months I have started reading this book; Everybody Always by Bob Goff. It is incredible; the challenge started with this book and it continued with my bible study and with hearing from God in multiple different settings. This book is about encouraging you to love difficult people, the creepy ones, the rude ones, and the not so loveable ones; to love them anyways because ultimately it is what Jesus has called us to do and it is what He did. He did not just choose the good people or the easy ones to love. He loved us all the same. I am not going to lie to you this task is a little…

Show Up

Just this week I started the Last 90 Days challenge with Rachel and Dave Hollis. At the start of each week you get an email with 5 things for you to do each day so that you finish out this year stronger than you started. It’s about not waiting until the New Year to start over or start off stronger. I am in the first week and it’s already challenging me, which is good because I needed it. I don’t know why I needed this to push myself further but I did. One of the things they are always talking about is showing up for yourself. Stop breaking those promises to yourself. If you have committed to working out 30 minutes a day, then do it. Don’t miss one day because it won’t hurt anything…you are hurting yourself. If you have committed to giving something up that isn’t good for you, do it! If you committed to a new bible study or spending time in prayer you, do it! I have started waking up at 5:30 in the morning, which I said I could never…