Have you ever heard of unschooling? Many parents have begun to radically change the way their children learn and say, "no" to the way their children are learning and to the government's involvement in their child rearing through unschooling. If you want more information check out this link. (This is not a blog to promote that, although I am a huge proponent of homeschooling when you can coupled with using brain-based teaching for your children.)
I want to talk with you today dear sister and brother about #unresoluting. Can we start a new hashtag and verb? This January 1, let's start the trend to NOT start a New Year's resolution. Let's not pick one word for the New Year.
Why?
I'm not advocating for slothiness.
I'm not advocating for apathy.
I'm not saying don't continue to journey on a life of learning.
I am advocating for learning to love where you are. To allow yourself to go back and heal your past. That will catapult you forward like you've never known. It will allow you to not only see yourself for the gift the Lord created you to be, but the gifts he's given you to give others.
His word says you mean the world to him. John 3:16 says, "For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life". And "God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God." He sees us as righteous.
When we let the healing happen we open up to receive the love of a saviour, the love of others without offense and give abundantly, without expectation, unconditionally.
Choose to #unresolve this 2016 with me.
Then see how your blessings flow. I would love to hear back now when you let go, they stack up. Keep track of when you go back and let go, how the miracles and mercies mount. Let's start a community of encouraging each other.
"He is so rich in kindness and grace that He purchased our freedom with the blood of His Son and forgave our sins." Ephesians 1:7
Because, he has already set you FREE. What are you waiting for? Set yourself free.
"If the son sets you free, you will be free indeed." John 8:36
Wednesday, December 30, 2015
Wednesday, November 4, 2015
Fame
"I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
your works are wonderful,
I know that full well.
My frame was not hidden from you
when I was made in the secret place,
when I was woven together in the depths of the earth." Ps. 139: 14-15 (NIV)
Whether you are the disheveled, homeless, hidden vet under the bridge or living large Lorenzo Cain of my KC Royals, He knows your name. He knows your pain. We've all felt we were picked last, less than worthy of the choice, goal, task we've undertaken or gifts given. We've felt out of place in the family we're in and the group of friends we have, but He knows.
He gives. In His eyes we are center stage. Famous. Picked for the center role. The main character in a play He has chosen.
You are THE champion for this game of His.
Free.
Forgiven.
Hidden treasure.
Famous in your Father's eyes.
your works are wonderful,
I know that full well.
My frame was not hidden from you
when I was made in the secret place,
when I was woven together in the depths of the earth." Ps. 139: 14-15 (NIV)
Whether you are the disheveled, homeless, hidden vet under the bridge or living large Lorenzo Cain of my KC Royals, He knows your name. He knows your pain. We've all felt we were picked last, less than worthy of the choice, goal, task we've undertaken or gifts given. We've felt out of place in the family we're in and the group of friends we have, but He knows.
He gives. In His eyes we are center stage. Famous. Picked for the center role. The main character in a play He has chosen.
You are THE champion for this game of His.
Free.
Forgiven.
Hidden treasure.
Famous in your Father's eyes.
Tuesday, July 7, 2015
7s and Connectedness//: A Book Review of Counting By 7s by Holly Godlberg Sloan
This book surprised me, although I probably shouldn't have let it. Counting by 7s is a 2015-2016 Mark Twain Nominee recommended for ages 10+, although, I would read it aloud with my family. I am convinced it was written just for me, I'm serious! Holly has captured the heart of foster-care and adoption in telling the story of the main character, who is a quirky, gifted kiddo named Willow struggling to find her place as she becomes a teenager and enters middle school. And as a fellow writer, I love Holly's voice and talent at stringing words together to tell a story.
Now onto why you MUST pick this up at the store or library or download it to your e-reader. I believe there are moral standards that all humanity feels in their being, regardless of culture, race or religion. Throughout our growing up we struggle with it, many of us more than once. We transition through how these standards apply in different seasons of life and what they mean to ourselves and our loved ones, the ones we have charge over. And what do we do with the broken disconnectedness that happens with coming of age in a world that becomes more isolated even though we can "see" everyone's business through our technology-laced world? Holly uses, Willow, the quirky, gifted, isolated, adopted tween-age girl obsessed with the number 7 to explore the multifaceted relationships of humanity and its connectedness in her book, Counting By 7s.
Holly takes it all--loss, dysfunction, isolation, foster-care, adoption, culture, being different, deception, parenting, death and life, and puts it all together to explore the humanity in us all and how we reconcile it to become independent, self-sufficient, resilient people who enjoy life and plow forward.
Willow along with two other teens she meets through a school counselor, and the three main adults in her life take the reader on such journeys to show the meaning of true family and community. They are a picture of how through brokenness and hard work healing and love are possible. When Holly sets a stage of tragedy and loss, as the reader I found myself wondering how she could possibly bring us out of all of the despair. She did and in ways I could not have conjured. This story is one of true American Spirit, Family, and Love that I think many of us forget is still possible and alive in our country.
I can go on about Holly's writing style (which I love), the perspective she chose to write from, and the amazing character development, but what I want to get across is I truly feel this is a book that EVERYONE MUST READ.
In the words of one of the teen characters, Quang-Ha, "I don't want to know how you did it. I want to believe you're magic."
This is the essence of Holly's writing in Counting by 7s. I don't want to know how she did it. I believe it's magic in touching the hearts to open understanding in how we can all grow in connectedness and empathy to each other.
Visit Holly's Counting by 7s page.
Now onto why you MUST pick this up at the store or library or download it to your e-reader. I believe there are moral standards that all humanity feels in their being, regardless of culture, race or religion. Throughout our growing up we struggle with it, many of us more than once. We transition through how these standards apply in different seasons of life and what they mean to ourselves and our loved ones, the ones we have charge over. And what do we do with the broken disconnectedness that happens with coming of age in a world that becomes more isolated even though we can "see" everyone's business through our technology-laced world? Holly uses, Willow, the quirky, gifted, isolated, adopted tween-age girl obsessed with the number 7 to explore the multifaceted relationships of humanity and its connectedness in her book, Counting By 7s.
Holly takes it all--loss, dysfunction, isolation, foster-care, adoption, culture, being different, deception, parenting, death and life, and puts it all together to explore the humanity in us all and how we reconcile it to become independent, self-sufficient, resilient people who enjoy life and plow forward.
Willow along with two other teens she meets through a school counselor, and the three main adults in her life take the reader on such journeys to show the meaning of true family and community. They are a picture of how through brokenness and hard work healing and love are possible. When Holly sets a stage of tragedy and loss, as the reader I found myself wondering how she could possibly bring us out of all of the despair. She did and in ways I could not have conjured. This story is one of true American Spirit, Family, and Love that I think many of us forget is still possible and alive in our country.
I can go on about Holly's writing style (which I love), the perspective she chose to write from, and the amazing character development, but what I want to get across is I truly feel this is a book that EVERYONE MUST READ.
In the words of one of the teen characters, Quang-Ha, "I don't want to know how you did it. I want to believe you're magic."
This is the essence of Holly's writing in Counting by 7s. I don't want to know how she did it. I believe it's magic in touching the hearts to open understanding in how we can all grow in connectedness and empathy to each other.
Visit Holly's Counting by 7s page.
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