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Thanks to My Readers!
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Thanks to all of you who take time to read my blog. Last month, I had 9,999 different visits (not page hits which was much greater). Wow, I am honored and love to share my writing with you all!
By His Grace,
Mikki
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Can You Help?
Posted by: | CommentsDear Friends,
I need at least 50 ‘likes’ on my business facebook page in order for facebook to publish it? Could you take a moment and go to this page and ‘like’ it? Thanks so much!
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Shoals-Counseling/140647699361020
Have a great day!
Mikki
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Who Will Love Me for Me?
Posted by: | CommentsTears filled her eyes as the words formed on her quivering lips, “No one loves me for me.”
The unasked question that haunted this woman is the same one that every human asks, “Who will love me for me?” The words of J.J. Heller expresses this longing in all our hearts:
We are made for love, both God’s love and the love of others; yet, we all at times, find ourselves feeling empty, feeling unloved.
There is no more powerful force than unconditional love. It has the power to transform the heart of the most hardened criminal and the hardest part of my heart and your heart for none of us are that different from each other. Our hearts all need healing, and we all long for the unconditional love of another.
If we all need this kind of love so desperately, why don’t we just freely give it to one another? It would seem such an easy answer to the problems of this world. Let’s just love. Love well. Love deeply. Love unconditionally.
Yet we are all caught in our own stories, seeking to be filled ourselves, too busy, too self-absorbed or too wounded or too defensive or a myriad of other things which keep us stuck, unable to move beyond our own insecurities and needs to offer others what they need and what we so desperately long for ourselves.
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How Are You Using Your Influence?
Posted by: | CommentsPerhaps nothing is as beautiful as a woman full of God’s power and presence and nothing as destructive as a woman consumed by her own power and presence.
From the beginning, woman was declared by God Himself to be not only “good” as he declared the rest of his creation, but “very good”. She was made by God with purpose and power. She was to compliment Adam and rule and reign alongside him.
She, like all of God’s creation, was crowned with beauty. She was created from man, made from man’s rib. Scripture tells us that she was made to be a “helper comparable” to man. In the same language God uses to describe the Holy Spirit as the one who would be our “helper”, empowering us to walk in the fullness of God’s plans, woman was purposed to bring completion and fullness to creation. In particular, she was to give Adam what he did not have without her.
Immediately Satan moved to bring death, separation, and destruction into God’s perfect world.
Many have assumed that Eve was weak and that perhaps that was the reason Satan came to her instead of Adam, and yet her strength may have been the reason she was targeted.
She had influence, and ever since Eve wrongly used her influence in the Garden, woman has struggled to live in the truth of God’s purposes. Many women find themselves using their influence, as Eve did, wrongly. Multitudes of other women feel worthless, purposeless, and fail to understand the role God has given them and often feel that they have no right to a voice.
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When You Need to Change, Again
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I find myself in a place of change, again. Perhaps I am more resistant than most, but I doubt it. Life seems to be one long season of change and transition. Personally, I get into my little nesting places and get comfortable, even when the nest has briars and thorns in it. The unknown is scary, and yet once again I find myself in a place where I am unsure, grappling over the next step. The answer I find is not one I like. Wait. Trust. Have faith.
At my core, I like to make my own way. I prefer having all the answers. I love having my life road map for the next 10 years or so, yet my life with God challenges me. Unknown territory. Previously unnavigated regions. Dark places. Again and again, God demands my trust.
I think of the verse in Psalm 119 that says, “Your Word is a lamp for my feet, and a light for my path.” The lamp for my feet is the light that comes for the very next step in front of me, and the light for my path is for the steps lying just ahead. I need both.
Having recently finished my Masters in Professional Counseling degree, I find myself with new career opportunities which feel unknown. I am excited and scared both at the same time. I was in my safe routine. School work. Internship. It had form. I knew what was required.
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