“WE’RE ALL MESSED UP”

That was my message to my son, Emmie, this morning after he felt upset about a mistake. The motivational coach/super momma here jumped into action. What happens if a child is running across a street and falls? Does that child stay there crying, or does that child pick themselves up and keep going? That’s how we have to be in life. Constantly picking ourselves up after falls and failures, and keep going. But the trick is, we take the lessons learned from the falls and MASTERFULLY AND SKILLFULLY put them as part of our tool kit for living BETTER AND WISER. Wink! Wink!

That’s what your girl here does! I take all the lessons from past failures, falls, and mistakes and use them as experiences, allowing them to mold me into the best version of myself. Like the other day getting on my knees to apologize to my husband. I see the error in my previous ways. Instead of focusing on the 99% positives that I love about my husband, I obsessed about the 1% of where I thought he was wrong. Thank God for God, who I felt correcting me in my spirit that I shouldn’t give this husband a hard time about anything. He is now back to being my gift.

“Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable–if anything is excellent or praiseworthy–think about such things.” – Philippians 4:8

The falls have been so good for me because the lessons I’ve learned from them have been priceless. Like not only do I love and appreciate my husband on a new level, but everyone in my life. I’m now much more forgiving, merciful, softer, kinder, gentler, and peaceful, which has made me much more joyful. They’ve taught me to appreciate the good in my life. And there is so much good in all of our lives when we look for the positives and not the negatives.

Most importantly, all my past mistakes have taught me to keep my eyes on God. In my down times, I go running to Him, ‘God, what is wrong with me?’ and the love and the approval I receive from Him have made me God’s girl, full of strength, courage, and bravery to take on any challenge that now comes my way. I’ll never forget a time when I felt terrible about myself. I was not the person I kept striving to be. I kept failing. Going to Him in that awful moment, beating myself up, this showed up in my meditation book:

“Even when you feel good for nothing (exactly me at that moment), give me this nothing. Didn’t I create with nothing?’ – He and I

That was no coincidence! It was God speaking to me in that pitiful moment! Who am I that God would come to me like that and reveal His intimate, invisible Presence? That is the love I’ve gotten to know from Him. That no matter our mistakes and failures, we have a God who loves us unconditionally and He can turn any situation around. Didn’t He create the entire world from nothing?

Give God a try! I promise you the best life with Him as your Guide and Partner! Just start going to Him in the 1,000 decisions you make every day asking what He would have you to do, seeking to always please and honor Him. He is getting me to the other side of 2020 with such important values ingrained into my character like endurance, faithfulness, loyalty, going the extra mile in love, and FAITH in Him. “And if my God is with me. Whom then shall I fear?” Heehaw!

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