"Consequences are essential when someone refuses to take responsibility" ~ Henry Cloud. Have you ever been on a merry go round of behavior, relationships or mindsets that have proven detrimental to your mental, physical or emotional health and peace. A lot of times we expect the situation or person on the other end to change but what if we took the position that we too are responsible for the consequences we bear AND that we have the power to change the dynamic even if externally nothing changes?

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Sometimes we as human beings can be so shady and judgy. What if we practiced intentionally approaching (a person, situation, circumstance) from another perspective?

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Have you ever been in a place where you wish everything would just freeze and give you a minute, a day, a week? What do we do when life doesn't give you time - time to grieve, time to rest, time to deal, time to heal...

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On the other side of why me, homeschooling, home life, etc. - I'm on all sort of topics today!

Have you ever asked God this question? I'm sharing a taping I did for another organization on Exodus 5:22-6:12. 

This Christmas season has been a breathe of fresh air! Have you ever finally started to burst forth and it's like oxygen to your lungs?

The new year means different things for different people. Some are excited, anticipatory with a bring it on spirit and others are full of dread, disappointment, fear and anxiety. Yet others are complacent - it's just another day. I am one who looks forward to the cross over with anticipation how I will see God moving, uncovering more of who He has made me and what our journey together will unfold as well as looking back on all those same things for the past year and previous years. I don't feel disappointment necessarily of what I hadn't accomplished but how can I change or adjust for what needs to be accomplished. I bask in His grace but also make a plan to do my part. I look at the progress that I have made and far He and I have come together. It's like a time of stone markers and internal stillness so I can hear the nuggets and direction I am to take in different areas. How about you?

Have you ever been in a season where you say 'haven't I been here before' and you ask of God the same prayer that did not get you the desired results in the many times you've walked that path? Our inclination is to then be angry, yes I said angry, or disappointed with God but what I have learned...painfully, is my favorite statement 'ask a different question' and after the initial 'ugh!'...'what are you here to teach me this time?'. 

Submit, embrace, peace - these are words that you do not pair up with 'The Process' or 'The Valley' but God is never changing and what we can be sure of is that His plans and end result is always good - and that is not written 'feel good'. So what do you do when you are faced with the same doggone road again? Respect the process, learn how to walk and extract the lessons you are to learn so that when you appear there again - because you will - you can walk forward confidently instead of kicking and fighting to no good end.

Have you ever been waiting for God to change a situation, habit, circumstance...ahem, feelings before you can move? Sometimes He does but what I have experienced more so is Him moving after I already have committed to and taken the steps in moving in spite of whether or not He changes it, or them.