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Stay The Path

“Someone else’s opinion of you is none of your business”- Rachel Hollis If you have been doing the last 90 days challenge or listening to her podcast then you know what I am talking about: people’s opinions of you and how you let them affect you. I am at my core a people pleaser, it is really hard for me when I come across someone who has a hard opinion of me. I would be lying if I said it doesn’t strike a chord to my heart, sometimes it cuts deeper than I would like to admit. Why do we let people’s opinions control how we feel about ourselves? Why do we let people’s opinions control our emotions at times? Why is it so hard to just stay on our path and focus on our journey and not seek the validation or acceptance of others? If you are succeeding or doing things right, the enemy is always going to be there to try and take you down. “Do not put peoples opinions above God’s calling”- David Groeshel  One of the hardest things that I…

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…