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The Calling

Most of my life I grew up hearing about God calling me and how it will change my life when I hear Him. I grew up waiting to hear this voice, and it never came. If you watch the TV show Manifest, the callings that they talk about reminds me of this sometimes. It made me question whether or not He was going to choose me. That maybe I was doing something wrong because I wasn’t hearing Him. At times it left me frustrated and defeated. Sometimes it deterred me from pursuing Him so much because nothing was happening. All that time He was trying I was just waiting for the wrong sign. It took me well into my late 20s to figure out that it doesn’t always have to be His voice that you wait for. He has other ways that He uses to try and reach us. So if you haven’t heard His voice hold tight. For me the first time I truly felt God that I can remember happened when I was 29 years old. I had been praying for a specific thing for years and felt like I was getting…

Its Your Story, Own It.

“Some of us cannot receive what God is doing in our lives because we are too married to our  expectations of what we thought God was going to do.”- Not a Hostage: Life Church Podcast This struck a cord with me yesterday as I listened to this podcast because I have been a hostage to my own expectations more than I would like to admit. How often do we let our expectations control our joy? How many times have you been in difficult circumstances and you pray that they will change? How many times have you felt the need to be liked, the need to be skinnier, the need to be a better mom, wife or friend? How many times have you looked at what your expectations of motherhood would be like and thought, “Where did I go wrong?” lol. When instead you can look in the mirror and realize that you are already enough for the only one who matters. You are made perfectly in His image not anyone else’s on this earth, and you will never be able to fill those shoes, so stop trying. Something that was hard for me was…