“For it seems that people live in shame..guilt..not enough..never good enough..don’t add up..don’t fit in..and on and on..and I wonder to myself how do any of us ever get to this place in our lives?..Amen..because first if we go looking for reason a to feel sorry for ourselves..or to not belong or fit in so to speak..well, guess what?..we find them..and all of them at best..Amen..and again if we sit around looking for reasons to not be good enough..or we think were not good enough in life..then as well we find all the reasons why we think were not..Amen..because whatever we dwell on in our lives..whatever we are listening to in our lives..well, again guess what?..we find that..and exactly that..because what we hear and what we are around..and what we listen to and so forth..is what we live out in our lives..Proverbs 23:7..Amen..so I am going to say this..know who you are..and know what you want in life..and then you move in that direction..don’t sit down and feed your body, mind or spirit..defeat..failure..not enough..not good enough..and simply feed yourself hurt, shame, guilt and so forth..because who we are should never be negotiated..not with anyone..Amen!”

“For we must know who we are..and we must be very clear about who we are..AMEN..for we should never sit down with anyone to negotiate who we are with someone else..because really what we do is disregard who we are and who we are in Christ..because what happens is you begin to fit your life for that person..not yourself..not your life..and not the life that God gave you to live..Amen..and then over time we turn into someone in whom we were never meant to be..Amen..because people pleasing is exhausting..Amen..for when we do this..we pretty much become a robot..not knowing who we are..not living our lives the way we truly want to be living them..but instead..we fit others molds..others hearts..what their examples are and what they think works..and again fits best for them and their lives..not you and yours..Amen..but living for Christ is freeing..Praise the Lord..for whom the Son sets free is free indeed..John 8:36..there is no second guessing..but rather on the inside there is freedom..Amen..so again live your life..and live to please the Lord..and be you, yourself, always..never hand your life over to anyone else..because we all have our lives to live..and when we negotiate them..well sooner or later we lose them..and we hand over and give power to someone else..on their thoughts..their feelings..their emotions and so forth..and again that’s not your life..but much rather that would be theirs..Amen..so live yours..and let others live theirs..being free..being content..and simply being YOU..for it is in His name, Jesus’ name, that I do ask and pray..Amen and Amen..Be blessed today my dear sweet friends and remember wherever you go and whatever you do, Be a light for our Father, Much love to you all, Mandi ❤