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I saw this quote, and it made me think of my single friends and those friends who may be struggling in their current relationships or lack thereof. We learn from all of our relationships…friendships, spouses, partners, family. And some of those lessons are extremely hard. We need to believe that those lessons lead us to the ulitmate relationship where you can live, thrive and experience the greatest peace.

May your next lover be your life partner, not another life lesson. May it be the kind of love that brings peace, consistency, and growth, not another chapter you have to heal from.

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The Right Doors

October 7, 2026 No Comments

I saw this quote the other day and thought it needed to be shared. Sometimes we get so frustrated when our lives don’t seem to be moving in the direction we want them to go. But I believe things happen for some reason or another. So when you are ready, the next door will open up for you. Just keep grinding and becoming a better version of yourself every day.

The right doors won’t open for you until you are the version of yourself that’s supposed to walk through them.

~ unknown

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Too Easy

September 16, 2026 No Comments

Why do we find it so easy to hate and destroy each other rather than praising, loving, and building each other up? I don’t understand it, but I see it around me every day. Why can’t we spread love as easily as we spread hate? Let’s try to find the positive in each other and tell one another.

It has always been easy to hate and destroy. To build and to cherish is much more difficult.

~ Queen Elizabeth II

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Life

July 29, 2026 No Comments

I never heard this quote or anything like it until I met my husband. He read on Brian Kigh’s blog that E+R=O, which means Event + Response = Outcome. This closely resembles the quote below. Life is how we react to the events that are thrown at us. We can choose whether we react negatively or positively. We decide how strongly life’s events stay with us. Life is up to us. Choose wisely how you live it.

Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.

~Charles R. Swindoll

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Your Death

July 15, 2026 No Comments

Your death is the one thing you can count on. How you live your life is up to you. You can complain that you didn’t get a fair deal or that life is too hard, but it is all what you make of it. If you don’t like your life as it is, change it. Your happiness is a choice. We all know the older we get, the closer it comes. So live life well and do it with grace and kindness. Just do unto others as you would like them to do unto you.

Your death will come on an ordinary day-in the middle of unfinished plans, unanswered messages, and dreams still in progress.

The work will keep turning…But eternity will begin.

So don’t just live a little, live for what lasts. Walk with God. Love deeply. Forgive quickly. Speak truth. Choose what honors Christ.

Because one ordinary day here becomes forever there.

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Your Job

June 17, 2026 No Comments

I think we all try to change people, and we need to realize that we can’t. People need to change for themselves. It is not our job to judge people either. It is our job to find people we want to surround ourselves with. Surround yourself with like-minded people who are always striving to be a better version of themselves and who can help you become a better version of yourself. If they are not, then they don’t need to be in your circle.

It is not your job to police anyone else’s behavior or educate them on who you think they should be. Your only job is to filter (for yourself) who gets a ticket into your world, and who needs to stay at the gate.

~ Amy Young

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Do It Anyway

June 3, 2026 No Comments

People may not appreciate what you do or say when you are kind and honest. And many people may not like it when you find happiness. But you need to be true to yourself and not let anyone else bring you down.

People are often unreasonable and self-centered. Forgive them anyway.

If you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives. Be kind anyway.

If you are honest, people may cheat you. Be honest anyway.

If you find happiness, people may be jealous. Be happy anyway.

The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway.

Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough. Give your best anyway.

For you see, in the end, it is between you and God. It was never between you and them anyway.

~ Mother Teresa

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What We Learn

May 27, 2026 No Comments

What we learn as we get older is that life doesn’t always go as we plan. We need to learn to control what we can and not worry about what we can’t. Life is going to throw us lemons so let’s make lemonade.

At my age, I’ve learned that most of what we worry about never happens, and most of what does happen we never saw coming. So here’s my advice: prepare for what you can, accept what you can’t, and spend more time living than worrying. The graveyards are full of people who died with perfect plans but unlived lives. Don’t be one of them.

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Pause

October 15, 2025 No Comments

I saw this on Facebook the other day. Practice the pause. What good advice. Hard to practice, but possibly something to be more mindful of. According to this article, it only takes 90 seconds for your brain to process emotions. If you are stuck in a state such as anger or sadness, it is because you are processing that emotion over and over in your head; therefore, you get stuck. If we can recognize our feelings of anger, sadness, or resentment, we can pause, feel it, and then let it go. We don’t need to be stuck in a state because of our own minds. So practice the pause.

Practice the Pause. Pause before you assume. Pause before you accuse. Pause before you react out of emotion. That Pause can save you a lot of regret.

~ unknown

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Life is Hard

August 6, 2025 No Comments

Over the past few years, I have seen many friendships change. And I have come to realize that life is busy. We are all busy. We all have too much to do and too many places to go. But what I do know if you have true friendship, you are never too busy. There are always five seconds in a day to say hello, even if you haven’t talked to them in three months. If you want to continue the relationship, you make the effort. And if it is true friendship that it will stand the test of time and months of not talking but when someone reaches out or when you get together, it’s like no time has passed at all.

Life is already hard. And I don’t want to be around people who make it even harder. I need people who feel like home, who bring comfort, calm, and a sense of peace. That’s the kind of energy I need in my life.

~ Robert Wilkinson

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