Hey there, do you ever feel like you're running on empty trying to juggle so much in your life? Balancing dreams, goals, work, family, and faith – and wondering how you'll ever do it all?
This week on the Nourished to Bloom podcast we're reflecting on scripture and saint quotes that keep us motivated and remind us that we are enough for God's plan.
So, if you've ever felt overwhelmed by your goals or wondered how to align your dreams with God's will, this episode is for you!
Let me tell you, it's an episode packed with so much inspiration and spiritual sustenance, you're gonna feel like you just had a refreshing soul retreat.
We start by reflecting on John 2:1-12, the wedding feast at Cana. It’s a story most of us have heard before, but it's a profound reminder of how Jesus turns the simple into the extraordinary. Those servants filling stone jars with water had no idea they were part of a miraculous transformation, just by being obedient. Are you filling your "water jar" to the brim, despite not knowing what lies ahead?
💬 Here are some key highlights from this episode:
📖 Ephesians 2:10 – You are God’s handiwork, created for good works. He's had a plan for you from the very beginning, and you are more than prepared for what He has in store.
💡 Transformation and Consistency – Just like water turning into wine, the small, consistent acts of faith and obedience in your life are building towards something magnificent over time.
🕯️ Psalm 119:105 – God’s word is a light for our path. Even if we only see one step at a time, He has the full map and will guide us.
👑 Esther 4:14 – Perhaps this is the moment for which you were created. You are here for a divine purpose, perfectly placed in God’s timeline.
This week, I challenge you to reflect on how you can consistently show up in those small, everyday moments with faith and love. It might feel like you're just filling a jar with water, but remember – it’s the simple obedience that leads to God's abundance.
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So, if you're ready to nourish your soul, embrace your God-given purpose, and blossom into the person you were created to be, tune in now. Let's walk this journey together!
Remember, beauty held is the seed, beauty shared is the flower. It’s your time to bloom! 🌸 Let’s get started!
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In case you needed the reminder, today, you are
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enough for God's plan. I mean,
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how many of us have set a goal or had a big dream
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only to try to talk ourselves out of it, telling ourselves I
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could never do that, or I don't even. Know how I would be able
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to do that. I mean, I know I have. But
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it's this exact kind of mindset that is truly of
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the world, not of God. The world
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promotes self reliance. God asks for surrender. The
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world says, make a name for yourself. God says, come,
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follow me. I will show you a better way,
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y'all. He is the way maker, the miracle
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worker for your big goals and dreams.
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The world defines and pursues success and worthiness through
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academics, achievements, wealth or material
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accumulations, through productivity and how much you can
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do. But I want you to know that it's who you
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are is the key. It is way
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more important than the tangible skills you have to offer. I mean, while
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these skills are great and good to have because they will help
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you, because they will be God's hands and feet
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for whatever he's asking you to do, it's really
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your character, your attitude, your heart,
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your willingness are what God
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uses to make the impossible possible.
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God achieves success through your willingness to serve and love him and
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others. Every person you love and serve, whether in your home
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or in your community, is being connected to God through you.
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And it doesn't matter how you do it, it just matters to God that you
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are willing to do it and that you do it with love.
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But trust me, I know that this can be challenging. I know that
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those terrible, limiting beliefs pop into your mind.
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You just don't know how you're ever going to be able to do these
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things. So today I wanted to share some pieces
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of scripture and a few saint quotes that have really been speaking
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to me lately in the new Year
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about goals and being steadfast and the
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way that I'm being called by the Lord. They've really been
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helping me to better understand why God is calling me and increasing
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my willingness to say yes to him while
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also keeping me motivated. Especially when things seem
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hard, I don't want to do them or I don't know what
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to do. So I hope you'll join me as we walk
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through these few pieces of scripture and saint quotes today.
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Welcome to the Nourish to Bloom podcast, where your faith meets
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your health. I'm your host, Kara Trochta, a registered dietitian
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and certified Catholic coach, and I'm here to help you cultivate a deeper
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connection with your body, your spirit, and the nourishment that sustains
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them both In a world filled with noise and
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confusion about Food, Health and Body image, this podcast
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offers truth and healing from a Christ centered perspective.
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Together we'll untangle the deep roots of diet culture and discover
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what it means to truly care for ourselves through joyful
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nourishment of mind, body and soul. We're here to dive into
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the transformative. Power of intuitive eating coupled with the. Rich teachings of our
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Christian faith. With every episode, I'll be cheering you on,
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offering insights, inspiration and practical tools to help you
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heal your relationship with food and embrace the beauty of your
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body as a temple of the Holy Spirit with confidence and
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courage that can only be found in Christ. Join
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me as we journey together towards a more holistic approach to wellness, one
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that honors the wisdom of your body as God's creation, the
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teachings of our faith, and the unique purpose you're called to
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fulfill. You were made to bloom,
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to come into full beauty and health in order to bear good fruit
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for the Lord with your life. So if you're ready to nourish your body,
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feed your soul, and bloom into the best version of yourself, then you're
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in the right place. And I'm so happy you're here. Welcome
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to Nourish to Bloom, where every day is a sacred
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invitation to thrive. Hey there. Welcome
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back to the Nourish to Bloom podcast. So happy to be with you
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here this week. I hope that your week is off to a
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good start and I really want to open this episode by
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reflecting on John 2, verse 1 through 12,
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a scripture that most of us have heard several times. It's
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the wedding feast at Cana. I'm going to read it here for
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you. On the third
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day there was a wedding in Cana in Galilee, and the mother of
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Jesus was there. Jesus and his disciples were also invited to
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the wedding. When the wine ran short, the mother of Jesus said
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to him, they have no wine. And Jesus said to her,
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woman, how does your concern affect me? My hour has not yet
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come. His mother said to the servants, do whatever he
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tells you. Now there were six stone water jars there for
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Jewish ceremonial washings, each holding 20 to 30
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gallons. Jesus told them, fill the jars with water.
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So they filled them to the brim. Then he told them, draw some out
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now and take it to the head waiter. So they took it. And when the
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head waiter tasted the water that had become wine without knowing where it
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came from, although the servers who had drawn the water knew, the
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head waiter called the Bridegroom and said to him, everyone serves
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good wine first. And then when people have drunk freely, an inferior
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one, but you have kept the good wine until now.
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Jesus did this as the beginning of his signs in Cana and Galilee
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and so revealed his glory, and his disciples began to believe in
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Him.
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So I really think this scripture provides some beautiful messages
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for us, especially when maybe we're feeling stuck or
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lack the motivation to do the things that we know we need to do
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in order to meet our goals or to live out our
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calling. First, we can see that Mother
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Mary reminds us and encourages us to do what he
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says. And we are called to be like the servants
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who fully listened, fully trusted Jesus to handle the
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situation. Although they didn't know
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how he was going to provide more wine,
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they still did what it was that he asked. And what we
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see in the end is that their obedience made the
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way for this abundance, made the way for this
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transformation of water into wine.
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Secondly, I want to point out that that
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transformation took place, that water turned into
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wine, that water is something so
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necessary, so vital, yet really can be
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so simple, become something so
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special, so sacred, especially wine.
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At that time, when Jesus walked the earth and when
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we are working towards our dreams and our goals, when we are
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living our calling, we too are like the
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water being transformed into something
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special, something celebrated.
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The water is really what we're offering to the Lord.
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It's ourselves, it's our skills, it's our talents, it's our time and
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our energy. So are you feeling that water jar to the
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brim? But we
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are that offering to the Lord, and He's going to transform them.
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He. We see it time and time again that he works through the
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simple, the normal, the everyday things to produce
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his abundance. But I think
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we can often get discouraged wondering what is the one
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thing, right? What is that one big thing that's going to kind of give you
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your breakthrough, that's going to cause this transformation, that will
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be the thing that will help us meet the goal, that will produce the
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success. But I'm not really sure that
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that's how that works. I really think it's often that
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it's the commitment to showing up
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day after day, the obedience to do what the Lord
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is calling us to do day after day, to do
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the simple tasks with consistency. And that is
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what's going to make the difference. That's where the
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transformation really happens. I think we think of
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transformation, granted, water into wine, that's
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a very tangible transformation. We see that, but I think we
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often see and try to like
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visualize transformation as a clear before and after.
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But I don't really think that that's the way the Lord works. I think this
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consistency and this development of habits and
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sustainability and commitment and obedience, that trans
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transformation is occurring day after day after
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day. And it's only like after we get to a
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certain point that we can look back and we can see that it was these
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simple tasks, it was the obedience for like the
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breadcrumbs, the, the connecting of the dots to see how we
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got to where we are. I know, you know, in having a
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business and, and working with business coaches and seeing
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entrepreneurs and you know,
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people out there on the Internet that say, if you just do this, then you're
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going to have like a 10k month, or if you just do this, then you're
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going to get that many more followers.
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But I don't think that that is
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really the way that we are called. Like, it's not going to happen that
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way. But it's really this
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consistency, this obedience that's going to make the difference. It's, it's.
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That is going to be where that transformation truly
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happens. And I just want to say that like, it may
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not even be this, this really big dream or goal that you're needing this
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transformation. You may need him to help him transform how you feel
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about doing the laundry or cooking dinner.
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It's this transformation that occurs in being able to care
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and, and do these small tasks with love, that
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these small daily tasks help prepare us to be able to take
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care, to do the things necessary for these
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bigger dreams and goals. But
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boy do I know how hard it can be to stay
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committed to those simple everyday tasks.
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We want to know, we want to feel like what we are doing matters
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or that it is making a difference. The world screams at
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us to try this or this will be the thing that works.
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We have to remind ourselves that the Lord
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reveals Himself as being steadfast, as
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consistent, that he's always there, he does
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not change. And he shows us
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that these are the things. This is the path to that abundant
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life. I think too often we're reaching
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for hacks instead of building the habits,
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we're reaching for the hacks, the shortcuts, the easy
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ways. And while those things may work for a short time,
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it does not build that habit,
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something that's sustainable. Habits are sustainable and
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habits are something that evolve with you throughout all phases
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of life. So I want to be able to
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share a few more pieces of God's word with you and a few more
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reflections and some Saint quotes to continue
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to help you feel motivated to be the
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water. To let the Lord transform you as you
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continue to pursue your goals and to live
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out your calling on a day to day basis. So
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first I want to really reflect on Ephesians,
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chapter 2, verse 10. For we are his
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handiwork, created in Christ Jesus for the good works
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that God has prepared in advance that we should live
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in them. Remember that God has always
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had a plan from you, for you from the very, very beginning
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of time. He has always known
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what he would want you to do and the goodness
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that your yes would bring. Remember that
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your life has meaning, your story has
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meaning, and that you are enough for God's plan.
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You're exactly what he wants and needs for
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the task. Okay, moving
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on. Second Corinthians, chapter 5, verse 17.
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If anyone is in Christ, she is a new
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creation. The old has passed away. Behold,
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the new has come, y'all. There's my favorite word. Behold,
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right? Letting the Lord do something new and exciting.
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And this just really speaks to that transformation. We
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have to remember that the more that we surrender, the closer that we are to
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Him. And that maybe
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some of the things that you've done in the past really don't matter
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in what it is that the Lord is calling you to. The
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college gpa, the accolades, they don't
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necessarily make you more or less equipped to fulfill God's plan.
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I found that my life experiences,
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my faith, my faith journey, the
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transformations that I've experienced with God's help
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that have caused me to grow and change into the woman that he
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created and needed me to be, those
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are the things that really matter. Those are the things
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that help me to share God's word, to
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help other women be able to step more confidently and
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comfortably into who God created them to be.
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It really doesn't matter what my college GPA was.
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But this is a continuous process. Each step
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of the journey is you continuing to change and
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that he's continuing to mold you like the clay in the potter's
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hand. And remember that God's plan for
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you takes a lifetime. That
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you are constantly becoming who he created you to
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be, little by little, day after day.
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So now I want to share a quote from St. Teresa of
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Avila. Let nothing disturb you. Let
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nothing frighten you. All things pass.
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God does not change. Patience achieves
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everything. Whoever has God lacks
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nothing. God alone suffices.
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Christ has no body now on earth but yours, no
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feet but yours. You are the eyes through which the
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compassion of Christ must look out on the world.
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Yours are the feet with which he is to do to go about
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doing good. Yours are the hands with which he is to
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bless his people.
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So individually and together we are
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figuratively and literally the body of Christ here on
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earth. You and I are what
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make good holy things happen here on earth.
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We continue Jesus's earthly mission just as the
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saints have before us and the with
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overwhelming feeling that so
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much evil has gripped our world. We now more than
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ever need to confidently step into our vocations
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and to be faith filled, confident
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Christian women who are fully embracing
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and I think being comfortable with who we are
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and then stepping out in holy boldness because that is what
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the Lord is asking of us. We have to remember
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that Jesus overcame the darkness so we can walk in the
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light. We are called to be light to others. We
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have to remember that love is stronger than evil
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and Satan is no match for our God. So
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we should not fear the evil our world
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is currently facing, but instead go out with love
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and confidence, sharing that light,
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sharing God's light with those that we are loving
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and serving in our homes and our communities,
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in our jobs and our careers and our vocations.
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Now St. Paul, I will say this
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is likely in one of his letters. I forgot to go back
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and figure out which one it was. But St.
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Paul wrote that having to have no anxiety but with
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prayer and petitions, make your requests known to God.
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We have to know that we can ask the Lord for what it is we
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need. Even if it's the silliest thing.
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He hears us and will answer us. I'll
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share that. Lately I've been asking the Lord for
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permission and maybe courage to
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delete Facebook and Instagram apps from my phone.
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But I'm really struggling because I've built up this belief that I
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need those two things in order to grow my coaching
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business. And I've been worried that I
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can't grow this business. I can't do this business without a social media
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presence. Yet I'll just put out there that I don't
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post regularly because I just have
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this desire to not engage with
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people in that way that that is not the way
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that he is calling me to connect with people. But
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this just sheds the light on the truth is that God always
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has a way that if if I I
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do delete Facebook and Instagram that he's going to have a way
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that he's going to provide for my coaching business
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and he knows my heart and he knows my struggle with social
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media that it leads to time sucks, that it leads to me not
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being the mom that I want to be, that it leads to me being
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distracted. So I have to believe and trust that if I do
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delete these apps, that if I do decide to walk away from
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them, that he has a way to provide exactly what it
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is that I will need.
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So what is it that you need to ask the Lord
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for? Take some time,
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sit down and, and give him those
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requests. Even if you think it's silly. I find that
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sometimes the silliest things that provide the most
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profound impact in our, in our lives.
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Okay, so let's move on to a quote from St. Augustine.
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It's a kind of a powerful one. Without God we
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cannot. Without us, God will not.
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We are co workers and collaborating with
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God in this life. It's a mutual relationship and where we need
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each other to fulfill our unique calling. I mean, I
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like to use my imagination to see God and I, you know,
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maybe sitting at a coffee shop, sharing a cup of coffee, going
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over the plans for the day, or you know,
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maybe creating a vision board together, visualizing and dreaming
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about the future together, that we're sharing
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ideas that I can say, lord, you know, I kind of, I kind
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of think I want to maybe try this. And he's going to say, okay, well
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here's maybe how you can do that, or here's how we're going to tweak it,
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or here's how I'm going to help you transform that into something
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better. It's, it's really about him being
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the best co worker that we could ask for
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and that he is going to be our cheerleader, he's going to be our
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teammate, that we're working on this together, that we're not
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alone in this.
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Okay, so this leads to Psalm 119, verse
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105. Your word is a lamp to my feet and
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a light to guide my path. I love this
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one. You may not know what the next step
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is, but God already has the course charted
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out. He is your GPS telling you
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when to make the next turn, when to pull over to
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refuel and rest, and your protector, if you happen to
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make a wrong turn and end up in a not so great destination,
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he'll reroute your way and he's going to get you back on track,
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especially when we choose not to. To follow our GPS
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directions because we think we know a shortcut. Right. I'm guilty
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of that. Right. But he's going to reroute us. He's
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going to continuously to course correct to keep us on the path
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that he has for us. And I Just want to say that so many
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of us get caught in the fear of not doing anything, of not taking
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action, because we don't know the entire route from A to
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B. But I think the challenge is, is that
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even if we knew the entire route, how many of us are still willing to
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go about that course?
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That if we knew that it was going to take this struggle or that we
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were going to have this wrong turn that, you know, leads to
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something unexpected, would we still do it? I think
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the answer for most of us is probably not. And so I think in some
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ways, when we surrender and we let the Lord continue to guide our
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path, to reveal just the next right step we need to
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take, it's almost
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a motivation, right? It's an excitement. It's kind of
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more of an adventure than just getting from point
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A to point B. But we have to know that he's there,
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he's going to reroute, he's going to protect us. He is
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our, our True north, our GPS, our compass.
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Okay, here's one of my favorites. Jeremiah 29:11.
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For I know the plans I have for you declares the Lord,
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plans to prosper you. Let me read that
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again. For I know the plans I have for you declares the Lord,
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plans to prosper you and not to harm you. Plans to give you
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hope and future.
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Yeah, I know that going after goals or dreams can be
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scary, but if God is calling you to it,
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there is sure to be abundant goodness that comes out of it.
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He wants the absolute best for you, his beloved
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daughter, much in the same way that we want what's best for our own children
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and loved ones. So we try to give them everything they will need
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to prosper. That's how the Lord works too. He's going to
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give us everything we need. The Lord gives us
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that much better than we could in any human capacity.
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He wants this future and he wants this hope and
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he wants us to prosper. And he's going to show us the way
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if we are willing to surrender.
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I think this one, this next one is really
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appropriate for maybe this particular time that we are
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in, in our society and in our history.
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Esther414. Who knows,
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perhaps it was for a time like this that you became
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queen. So this
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is really just about embracing that we are where
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we are meant to be in God's history, in the history
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of the kingdom of God. Boy,
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we do know though, how life can be so challenging.
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Navigating this tech savvy world, the constant news and people
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in our faces all day long, raising kids in this day and
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age, I. I sometimes hear people say I think I should have been born
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in such and such time. But for whatever
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reason, God created you to be a part of this exact moment
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in his history of all the people who came before
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you and those who will come after you. Your blank
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page in in God's history is right now.
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That if we look at the expanse of God's history from creation to when
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Parisia will come, that he knew
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that he would create us for this particular time in history.
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Just want you to take a minute. Can you imagine God's history
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book? I mean, we see a glimpse of God's history in our
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Bibles, but God's history continues to this
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day. What will your chapter
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read like? It's kind of fun to imagine that. If
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we had a Bible tab with our name on it,
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what would be the story? What would be the lessons or the
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wisdoms that it would teach? What would your saint story
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be? I think that we can often feel
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insignificant in this bigger picture. But remember
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that you're not insignificant to God,
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that you were made specifically for this moment.
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Okay, so let's move on to Exodus, chapter 4, verse 10
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through 12. Moses, however, said to the Lord, if you
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please, my Lord, I have never been eloquent, neither in the past
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nor now that you have spoken to your servant. But I am slow of
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speech and tongue. The Lord said to him, who gives a
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person speech? Who makes another mute or deaf, seeing
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or blind? Is it not I, the Lord? Now
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go. I will assist you in speaking and teach you what you are to
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say. I think this really kind of
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embraces that idea that God doesn't call the qualified. He
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qualifies the cult. He prepares us for the
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tasks that we need to do. Personally,
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for so long, I struggled with making my coaching
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business faith based because I didn't feel like
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I was holy enough, Catholic enough, or knew enough about my
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faith or the Bible to be able to do it. But in finally
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surrendering to God and saying, yes, that I would do
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it, he has helped me to know what to say,
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what scripture or wisdom to share. He has helped to
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make what I do
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connected and collaborated with his truth and with his
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wisdom. And he's going to do the exact same thing for you.
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The Lord doesn't ask us to do this alone. He
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is right there with you, walking every step.
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He. He also lovingly
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places people in our lives that can help us along the way.
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I know how important it is to have people in your corner
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that know and understand what it is you are working
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towards a community that is there to support you and
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celebrate you and the big things the Lord is doing in and through your
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life. And so
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this led me to one of my goals for this year. To build
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a community for Christian moms who are wanting
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to rediscover themselves in
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the face of the Lord. To see themselves as the Lord sees them,
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to live their purpose, to find their passion,
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to embrace their vocation
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and create lasting habits for a
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healthier, more intentional life. So
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that's why I'm creating the Bloom and Motherhood Membership.
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This membership is your space to grow, to connect
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and thrive as you embrace whatever season of
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motherhood you're in with clarity and confidence.
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So what this membership includes is monthly live workshops. We're going
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to dive into topics like mindset, go deeper into
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faith led wellness, do work around our identity
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and living our purpose with actionable
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strategies to help you flourish, to help you take
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action and move forward, to become confident
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and comfortable in who you were created to be and how the
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Lord is asking you to live out your purpose. It also
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includes weekly coaching session. You'll be able to join live
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group coaching calls with me as your guide where you'll
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receive personalized guidance, accountability and
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and encouragement to stay on track towards your
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goals. One of the coolest things about group coaching
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sessions is that when you hear another woman being coached,
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oftentimes it's some of the same things that you're facing
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and it's just nice to be able to hear somebody else's perspective, to be
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able to see what a little bit of comfort and reassurance that you're not
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the only one, but that it gives you encouragement
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and motivation that we are all in this together.
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The membership features expert guidance that you're going to
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learn faith filled teachings designed to empower you to
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take small meaningful steps towards that transformation to
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be open to the Lord's transformation. I'm going to
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share the the knowledge and the wisdom and
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the expertise that I had in Christ centered Intuitive eating
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and Faith led wellness and in Catholic Mindset coaching to
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really help you on this journey of
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transformation. And then in our community you get to connect with
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like minded moms who share the same
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struggles that you're facing and who are there to offer encouragement
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and support and celebrate your wins. You'll
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also have access to exclusive resources,
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tools, challenges and guided reflections to help you apply what it
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is that you're learning each month. And the great thing about the
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membership is that there is no long term commitment that
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you can cancel this at any time if life takes you in a
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different direction. I want you to really know
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that this membership is more than just a program.
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It's a life giving community that equips you to
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embrace your God given purpose and to step
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boldly into this chapter of your life.
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So I'm inviting you to consider taking
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the next step towards a life of clarity and confidence and
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joy. All guided by God and with my
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help I would love to have you join the Bloom and
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Motherhood membership today and really give
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yourself the chance to flourish. You
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can find out more about the membership and sign
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up@community.care attractive.com or you can click
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the link in the show Notes. I thank you so much for joining
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me here today and for letting me share
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these pieces of scripture and Saint quotes that have really been on my
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heart these last few weeks in the New year. I hope that
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they have provided you with maybe some clarity or some
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motivation or some confidence to just keep
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taking the next right step and that you are
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enough for God's plan. I hope you have a
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beautiful and blessed week and I will see you right back here
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next week. And remember, beauty held is the seed, beauty
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shared is the flower. It is your time to bloom.
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Thanks. We'll talk soon. Bye.
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