{ Monday Motivation }

By now I'm pretty sure all of you have read this before, 

but I got it on my mind this morning and just knew it might be an inspiration to someone else, too!

HOPE your Monday is Marvelous!

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I had four different ladies share their hearts with me last week, each one struggling with an issue in their life that's overwhelming them right now. I came across the above quote and as I read through the lines I saw my friend's faces and the difficulties they're facing in each word. Maybe the entire thing doesn't fully apply to their situation, but if they're reading this, I want them to focus on these words.....

"Don't you dare doubt your worth or the beauty of your truth"

As women, we so often base our self-worth on what others think about us and I'm right there with you, my sweet Friends, because I've sought my own self-worth through someone else.  Satan will do his best to convince us that we're not good enough, pretty enough, strong enough, a good enough friend, wife, daughter, sister and he'll use whatever means he can to make us doubt ourselves.  As Christian ladies, we need to place our focus on how our precious Jesus sees us. That's something that we know in our heads, but it's often difficult to get our hearts to understand, even for us older women. 

Ladies, you're in my thoughts and prayers!

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"You're not alone!"

Those are the words I felt being whispered to me this morning as I was having a bit of a pity party.  I had just sat down at the desktop computer to send a PM to a friend asking them if they could give me a good solid explanation about something and as soon as I sat down that precious thought entered my mind and held me back from sending the message.  Instead, it made me DWELL (my 2018 word) on that sentence for a while.

Several years ago I signed up to attend a Ladies Retreat at a former church and at the last minute had to cancel because a family member had surgery and needed me to help them out. I was able to let a young Mom who probably needed it much more than I did go in my place. I was asked about a year ago to attend a Ladies Retreat this past weekend and was so excited to get to go and turn it into a vacation, too, something that I feel I truly need right about now, but because of another family member's health, I wasn't able to attend and when the other lady I was going with left this past Wednesday and I saw her go down the road heading to the airport as I was fixing to mow my Mom's yard, I couldn't help but tear up and yes, feel sorry for myself.  Another Ladies Retreat is coming up and again because of family obligations, I can't attend. 

"You're not alone!"

I believe those words were whispered to my heart for two reasons.  I know that I'm not the only one with struggles and battles and obligations, but sometimes it does feel that way when we start to feel sorry for ourselves and asking "why me?" (it should be "why not me?")  The most important reason is that God sees my hurt feelings and tears and fears and He's ALWAYS there as my "retreat"!

Ain't God good?

Oh, yes He is!

{ Monday Motivation }

Seek joy in the simple things.....

(a nest found trimming trees in the yard and acorns in the road from my morning walk)

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Truth - and so do I!
♥

Jessie Lynn Designs

HOPE you have a Marvelous Monday!

{ Monday Motivation }

The weekend was rough I'm not even gonna try to sugar coat it.  Ain't gonna go into detail, but here I am facing another week of things to do, places to go, people to see, and having to just deal with whatever comes my way, but I'm pretty sure that would be exactly what each of you reading this is facing, too!

This week we also get to celebrate our oldest grandboy's 12th birthday (how in the world did that even happen, almost a teenager) and if things go as planned there might be a "she shed" in my backyard by the end of the week because my husband is a rock star!

In spite of whatever might come our way this week, life is still good, Y'all, because.....

GOD is good!

{ Monday Motivation }

And, just for fun.....

HOPE your Monday is marvelous!!!

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I started my morning off REALLY early by putting on my headphones and listening to a variety of worship music.

This one just makes me wanna move!

HOPE this motivates you on this rainy Monday!

{ Labor Day Motivation }

HOPE you have a happy and safe Labor Day!

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Burning a candle from my "new" niece......

 .....drinking creamered-up coffee from the mug my Momma  bought me......

.....and most importantly, digging into God's Word!

How about you?

What's got you motivated on this cold Monday morning?