Gets away

No one gets away with anything.

It doesn't matter if their lies are believed by the world.

It doesn't matter if they insulted you in front of your face

or stabbed you behind your back.

It doesn't matter if it seems that everyone has turned against you.

No matter how much time passes, how it looks, or if you feel

justice was not adequately served, trust and believe we all reap

what we sow.

Everyone has to pay for their motives and movements.

~Morgan Richard Olivier

Conscious relationship

A conscious relationship is

not transactional. It is not

about, "I give you x,y,z, so

you give me x,y,z in return."

A conscious relationship is

rooted in devotion. Devotion

says: "I offer my full heart to

you. I am all-in. I give not

because I expect something in

return, but because nothing

brings me greater joy than

seeing you thrive."

A conscious relationship is not transactional.

It is not about, "I give you this, so you give me that" or keeping score of who did more, who tried harder, who sacrificed more. It's not built on silent expectations, hidden contracts, or emotional bargaining.

A conscious relationship is rooted in devotion.

Devotion says, "I offer my full heart to you. I am all-in. I give, not because I expect something in return, but because nothing brings me greater joy than seeing you thrive."

It's choosing each other every day, not out of obligation, but out of intention. It's showing up with honesty, with presence, with a willingness to grow - not just as individuals, but together.

It's understanding that love is not a trade, it's a connection. Not a deal, but a deep alignment of souls who are committed to building something real, something steady, something meaningful.

And in that kind of love, both people give freely...and somehow, neither ever feels empty.

~Malika TV 

Your job

 Your job is to plant the seed,

not change their heart.

Don't get your role and 

God's role mixed up.

No sense

 God's about to do

something in your life that

makes absolutely no sense

and that's how you'll know

it was Him

Trust God's words

You yourself

Sometimes,

you love 

someone

in a language

you yourself,

don't even

understand.

Crush you

 Your calling will crush you

before it anoints you.

The pressure is not punishment.

It is preparation.

 From Beauty for Ashes

Your calling is going to crush you.

If you're called to mend the brokenhearted, you're going to wrestle with broken-heartedness. If you're called to prophesy, you're going to struggle to control your mouth. If you're called to lay hands, you will battle spiritual viruses. If you are called to preach and to teach the gospel, you will be sifted for the wisdom that anoints your message. If you are called to empower, your self-esteem will be attacked, your successes will be hard-fought. Your calling will come with cups, thorns and sifting that are necessary for your mantle to be authentic, humble and powerful. Your crushing won't be easy because your assignment is not easy. Your oil is not cheap.

• Oil does not come without pressure
• Authority does not come without surrendder
• Fruit does not come without dying to self

Psalm 34:18 The Lord is near to the brokenhearted and saves the crushed in spirit

Luke 22:31-32 Satan has asked to sift you as wheat, but I have prayed for you

The room

 God is not a distant fortress

on a hill I have to climb.

He is the room I run into

when everything starts shaking.

Other people

 Care about what other people 

think, and you will always be

their prisoner.

~Lao Tzu

Themselves

 If you are willing to look

at another person's

behavior toward you as a

reflection of the state of

their relationship with

themselves rather than a

statement about your

value as a person, then you

will, over a period of time,

cease to react at all.

To be loved

Forgive yourself for the

things you did under

the influence of

wanting to be loved.

~Truly Healed Women

Saw her

 From Tera's Online Christian Journey

And when the Lord saw her...

And when the Lord saw her...there in her agony, there in her plight, there in her "life is no longer worth living so why continue to fight the good fight"...He had compassion on her.

But ohhh there is SO much more...

So many stories of the She's of the past who can tell you what is was like...when the Lord saw them...and so many She's in our world right now...who can tell you their stories too. May we listen to them.

And when the Lord saw her, her soul felt its worth. She realized she wasn't simply created to be the object of some guy's attention, but instead that she had her own value, her own gifts, her own talents and worth.

And the Lord saw her, she realized she was worthy of being seen, she was worth coming down for, worth crossing over for, worth being heard and believed.

And when the Lord saw her, she realized she was never too far away to be seen, never too far gone or too hidden away or too buried in the rubble of her own guilt and shame.

That's right. Never.

And when the Lord saw her, she saw the Lord seeing her, so she named him "El Roi," the name that would forever remind her that the Lord her God always sees her, no matter what sea she finds herself drowning in or what lonely desert she finds herself wandering in.

Yes.

And when the Lord saw her, he opened her eyes so she could see too. And when the Lord saw her, He listened to her.

And when the Lord saw her, He allowed her to spill both her guts AND her tears, and she watched as He collected each and every one of them into a bottle because they were THAT precious to Him. And as He did, he assured her...these won't be wasted.

And when the Lord saw her, she knew she wasn't alone, she knew that just as God's eye was upon the sparrow, his eye was also on HER...and then the Lord reminded her that she is worth FAR more than the sparrows.

Yes.

And when the Lord saw her, her life changed.

For the better...not for the worse, becoming the richer for her in the midst of her poorer, the health her soul desperately needed in the midst of her sickness...from that day forward...and into forever...for she knew even death itself wouldn't part them.

When the Lord saw her.

(sparked by Luke 7:13)

[My note: just realized this was about Hagar, the mother of Ishmael from the El-Roi reference]

Luke 7:13: And when the Lord saw her, he had compassion on her and said to her, "Do not weep."

Snake

If a snake bites you, you don't

chase it for answers or try to

prove you didn't deserve it.

You move toward safety, you heal,

and you keep going.

The same applies to people. 

Hope you know

I hope you know that He didn't

just die for the beautiful dressed

people that sit in 

church every Sunday

and read their Bibles every day.

He died for you who cries at night

and wakes up too late for church

and makes unforgivable mistakes and

goes weeks without thanking Him.

Don't forget that.

Completely

 Completely have trust in

God, leave everything in 

His hands, and believe

that His love will act for

your own benefit. Then

God will take care of

everything, because

there is nothing He

cannot do; everything is

easy for Him. The

difficult thing is for man

to decide to humble 

himself and leave

everything to God's

providence and love

~St Paisios of Mt Athos

Never love

I will never

love another

not like I loved you

I just don't have the love for it again.

Glowing

"You're glowing."

Thanks!

I sought the Lord, and He heard,

and He answered.

The size

 If you could see the size of the blessing

coming, you would understand the

magnitude of the battle you're fighting.

God has a plan.

Orchestrates

 God doesn't do coincidences;

He orchestrates miracles.

Some

Some relationships don't end with cheating.

They end

when one person gets tired

of being the only one trying.

No fight.

Just distance. 

Generally

 It is generally a bad 

thing that a man is going

to do when he does not

tell his wife of it.

~Charles Spurgeon

Be merciful

 Reflecting on Luke 6:35-36

"But love your enemies, do good

to them, and lend to them without

expecting to get anything back...

be merciful, just as your Father

is merciful"

Luke 6:35-36: But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing in return, and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High, for he is kind to the ungrateful and the evil. Be merciful, even as your Father is merciful.

Not finished

 God is not finished with your story

and what feels like an ending right 

now is actually a page turn into a 

higher flow of life and a happier

destiny. I know it doesn't feel like it

when you're in the middle of it, but

the seasons that hurt the most are

the ones that grow us the most.

They also carry the most meaning

because there is deeper spiritual

purpose to it all and the greatest

miracles also follow great

challenges. So let your faith restore

your peace and know that God

hears you and is helping you shift 

into a new possibility, more aligned

with who you truly are and what 

you truly value. The best of your

story is ahead, and you have no

idea how beautiful it will be.

~Stephen Sainato

Needed this today

 You needed this today. It's not by accident.

See Proverbs 3:5-6

Everything is going to be alright.

Stop burdening yourself with worries. If

it's God's will, it will happen and nothing

can stop it.

If it's not, He has something better

prepared for you. Have peace in that.

Not once in the Bible does it say to worry,

stress, or figure it all out alone.

But over and over it says: Trust God. 

God is bigger than all your fears and 

uncertainties. His plans are always greater

and more bountiful than your

disappointments.

When God is all you have, you have all

you need. He's holding you together.

Proverbs 3:5-6: Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge Him and He will make straight your paths.

Tithes

 From Salt & Light

Let's talk about tithes.

This might be uncomfortable, but it needs to be said.

Giving is biblical.

Honoring God with what we have is real.

But pressure, guilt, and fear? That's not from God.

The Bible never teaches us to give out of fear of lack.

It teaches us to give from a willing and surrendered heart.

Yes, tithing existed in the Old Testament.

But in the New Testament, the focus shifted --

not to a fixed percentage,

but to cheerful, intentional generosity.

God is not asking you to give what you don't have.

He's not honored by forced obedience or anxious giving.

He cares about your heart.

He cares about your needs.

And He sees your faith, even in the little.

So if you're struggling right now, hear this clearly:

You are not less faithful because you can't give much.

And you are not more loved because you gave more.

Give because you trust Him.

Give because you love Him.

Give as He leads you, not as people pressure you.

Because real giving isn't measured by amount --

it's measured by the heart behind it.

Chosen

 By June D. Gaylo

Imagine being chosen by God for a love

that would break you open.

Imagine God telling you to go

and marry an adulterous woman.

No long explanation.

Just a command that carries the weight

of His pain.

That's exactly what happened to Hosea,

even without knowing why.

He trusted God's plan with a quiet yes.

He heard God say,

"Go, marry a promiscuous woman

and have children with her, for like

an adulterous wife this land is guilty

of unfaithfulness to the Lord." (Hosea 1:2)

Imagine God asking you to live out

His own heartbreak.

What would you do?

Hosea went.

He found Gomer,

a woman people talked about

in hushed voices.

He chose her.

And he loved her

with the love God commanded.

A love that hurt.

A love that waited.

A love that refused to die.

A love that never fails.

A love born of God.

Each morning he woke beside a woman

whose eyes searched for someone else,

whose soul wandered far from where she lay.

And still...

he stayed.

And still...

he loved.

Because God told him,

"Love her."

This was God showing something real.

God used Hosea to tell a story.

Gomer was Israel.

His chosen people.

The ones He called His own.

Israel kept turning away.

They chased after other things.

They forgot the promises they made

with Him,

breaking the covenant with the One

who bound Himself to them in love

forever.

They gave their hearts to what could

never hold them.

They ran from the One

who kept calling their name.

And every step they took

was felt by God.

The pain in Hosea's life

reflected the grief of God Himself.

This is what it felt like

for Him to love Israel.

To love deeply.

To watch them leave.

To keep loving them still.

When Gomer left again,

when love was betrayed again,

when she disappeared into the arms

of others,

God spoke again.

"Go, show your love to your wife again."

(Hosea 3:1)

Again.

As if love had not already been exhausted.

As if grace still had more to give.

Hosea went.

He searched for her.

He found her in a broken place.

And he bought her back

for the price of a slave.

He brought her home.

She stood there, trembling,

carrying her shame,

and he covered it with mercy.

He chose her again.

This is God's love for Israel.

A love that keeps going.

A love that stays.

A love that reaches out again and again.

A love that gives quiet forgiveness.

He calls them back.

He restores them.

He holds on to them.

He pours Himself into them even more.

Even after everything,

He still says they are His.

Love brought them back home.

The unfaithful is called beloved once more.

And it leaves a question that stays

in your heart.

How many times can someone walk away

and still be loved like this?

They left Him again and again.

Yet, He never once

left them.

Seven times

I will give you back

seven times what you

lost.

~God

The tears, the time, the

energy, the peace - 

none of it was wasted.
Get ready. Restoration

is personal.

Stay close

 As long as you stay close to God,

your job,

the person you marry,

where you live,

what you do,

will all work out perfectly,

Don't worry.

Prayer

 R sent this to me~

PRAY THIS FOR YOUR RELATIONSHIP, AND WHEN YOU FINISH, SEND IT TO HIM/HER

Let us pray, Dear God,

thank you for the gift of love.

Please protect our relationship.

Let time build us, not break us.

Make us stronger than anything that

tries to divide us. Help us communicate

with grace, love with patience, and stay

humble in every season. Remove

every distraction, every lie of the

enemy, every temptation that tries to

destroy what You blessed. Lord, keep

us close to You so we can stay close to

each other. Let our bond grow in love,

trust, and understanding.

Be the center of everything we are.

If you're trusting God with your

relationship, put "Amen" and send

this prayer to someone you love.

Knew before

Every divorced person I know said the exact same thing. I knew before the ceremony. Every single one.

Six words that carry the weight of a thousand regrets. She knew. She felt it in her gut months before she walked down that aisle. Something was off. The arguments were getting louder. The red flags were getting harder to ignore. The voice inside her head was screaming this is not right but she silenced it because the dress was bought, the venue was booked, the invitations were sent, and everyone was watching. She convinced herself it was just cold feet. She told herself that marriage would fix the things dating could not. She believed that the commitment of a ring would magically transform the man who was already showing her exactly who he was. But it did not. It never does.

Marriage does not fix problems. It magnifies them. Every issue you sweep under the rug before the wedding becomes a mountain you trip over every single day after. The disrespect that you excused as stress becomes the foundation of your daily life. The lack of effort you justified as him being busy becomes the permanent standard of your marriage. The gut feeling you ignored becomes the reality you wake up to every morning wishing you had listened to yourself when you still had the chance to walk away freely. If you are reading this and you have that feeling right now, before the wedding, before the commitment, before the paperwork makes everything ten times harder, please listen to it. Your intuition has never been wrong. It was wrong zero times. Every divorced person will tell you the same thing, the signs were there before the ceremony, they just chose to ignore them. Do not become another person who says I knew. Be the person who says I listened. Because walking away before the wedding will always hurt less than walking away after years of living in something your heart trued to warn you about from the very beginning.

How to know

HOW TO KNOW A 

RELATIONSHIP IS FROM GOD

It comes back to you even after you

surrender it and let it go.

It brings peace, not confusion.

It comes with a purpose and feels

like an answered prayer.

It's rooted in Christ, pulling you

closer to Jesus - not farther away.

You feel grace all around you.

It helps you recognize the mercy of God.

If you're still waiting, be still. God

knows who you're going to be with.

Rest in knowing that your time is

coming, and you will be so glad you

waited.

Awful

"It's awful not to be loved.

It's the worst thing in the world.

It makes you mean, and violent, and cruel."

~John Steinbeck

Equipped

 If you don't feel equipped, if you feel

like there are other women who would

be better...know this:

Long ago, God hand selected you for

whatever it is that is right in front of

you. He had everyone on the entire

planet to choose from and said, "She's

the one I want. She's the best one for this 

job. She can do this."

Conditional

Conditional love is: I will only love you if you love me. 

Unconditional love: I will love you even if you do not love me.

It's really easy to love passing strangers unconditionally. They demand nothing of you.

It is really hard to love people unconditionally when they can hurt you.

~Amanda Palmer, The Art of Asking

Thinking small

 Sarah wanted a baby.

God wanted her to birth a nation.

Stop thinking small.

Really were

When we're old

I'll look into your eyes

and say:

"See?

You really were

the love of my life."

Do whatever

 Noah was crazy

until he wasn't.

Do whatever God

told you to do.

Great marriage

 Want a bad marriage?

Put yourself first. 

Want a good marriage?

Put your spouse first.

Want a great marriage?

Put God first.

Very soon

 Very soon you will 

smile and say

"God, this is way more than

what I prayed for."

~Love, Jesus~

Literally perfect

 Jesus was literally

perfect and people

still hated Him.

Don't put your 

worth in what

others think 

about you.

Redeemed

 Job didn't get his old life back. He got a new one.

God didn't restore what he lost. He rewrote the

ending and gave him more than he had before.

Some pain won't be explained, but it will be redeemed.

Feel brave

God is not waiting for you 

to feel brave before he

moves within you. He is

already moving within you.

He never asked you to be

unshaken, only to believe

that He is.

How big

 Don't tell God how big your storm is;

tell the storm how big your God is.

Mood

 saw a video that said

"learn to love yourself so your

mood doesn't depend on how

someone else is treating you"

and that stuck with me

Normalize

 Normalize not trying harder when someone makes you feel unwanted.

Don't feel

Lord, I don't feel You right now.

But I know You didn't move. 

Pull my heart back to where You are.

~Angelittle

 

Perfect

 You worry a lot for

someone whose God

has a perfect track

record.

Everything

 Just in case you

needed to hear this 

today...everything

will be okay, even if

it doesn't look like

it right now.

Restore

 God's ability to restore

your marriage does not

depend on your spouse's

current willingness...

...it depends on His power,

His covenant and His plan.

Deserve

 People give you what they are,

not what you deserve.

What you deserve,

you give to yourself.

If

 Fear is 

"What if"

Faith is

"Even if"

Constant doubt

 God didn't create you 

to live in constant doubt.

Trust Him.

That's why

I know once I leave,

I don't come back.

That's why I try so hard to stay.

Emotional maturity

Emotional maturity means openly admitting when you can't or won't meet someone's needs.

Emotional immaturity is staying silent until the issue becomes unavoidable.

Holding onto

God: We need to talk about what you're holding onto

You:  I'm not ready to let go

God: I know. That's why I've been patient. But we're at the point where your holding on is hurting you more than letting go would.

You: What if I let go and regret it?

God: What if you hold on and waste years on something I've already said isn't for you?

You: That's no fair

God: I'm not trying to be fair. I'm trying to protect you. From yourself. From clinging on to what's already dead. From missing what's coming because your hands are still full.

You: I don't know how to let go

God: Yes you do. You've done it before. You survived it then. You'll survive it now.

You: What if nothing better comes?

God: You're worried about the wrong thing. The question isn't whether something better comes. The question is whether you trust me enough to believe it will.

You: I'm scared.

God: I know. Let go anyway.

~Jacqueline Whitney

Today

You: I don't know if I can do it today

God: You don't have to know. You just have to trust me. I already went ahead and handled the hard parts.

You: What if I mess up again?

God: Then you mess up again. And we deal with it together. Like we always do.

You: I'm tired of starting over.

God: You're not starting over. You're starting from experience.That's different. You're wiser now. Stronger now. More aware now.

You: I don't feel strong.

God: Because you're measuring strength wrong. Strength isn't never failing. It's getting up every time you do.

You: Okay. I'll try.

God: That's all I need. Just try. I'll handle the rest. Now get up. Today needs you.

Restoration

 You're about to laugh in the places 

you've cried. Restoration is going to

look so good on you. Life's about to get 

beautiful and you're about to look up at

God and say, "It was worth it."

@Godlywaiting

Plays out

 When you try to mentally make sense of it, you'll

never figure it out...just wait till it plays out and you'll

get all the answers you need.

Keeps choosing

 If she keeps choosing to come back, it

doesn't mean she has nobody else, or

that she's lost.

It means she loves you with

everything she has, and her heart

refuses to stop being loyal to the one

man she's completely attached to.

That's what you call a One-Man Woman.

Angry/depressed

 So most men who are angry are

actually depressed and they're

manifesting their depression with

anger.

Not a lack

Anxiety is not a lack of faith.

It's a nervous system that has learned to stay on guard.

God does not shame guarded hearts. He comes close to them.

~lettersofannawin

God's plan

Choose God's plan.

Even when it's hard, when it

doesn't make sense & when 

it's taking longer than

expected.

His plan is greater.

Every

 Every tear you cry. He sees.

Every hope you lost. He restores.

She needed

she needed love

but she no longer wished for

another person to give her

the love she deserved

instead she loved herself more

becoming the love o her own.

~Dhiman

Biggest fears

Sometimes, God puts us in situations

with our biggest fears to teach us that

they're not nearly as big as He is. 

No idea

 You have no idea how much glory

will come from the promise

you're waiting for. You have no

idea how beautiful the outcome

will be. Keep waiting. Keep

believing. Keep pressing forward.

You're so much closer than you

know to receiving the life that

you and God have talked about.

Bravery

 Has anyone

ever told

you that

bravery

feels like

fear?

The most

 Whatever brings

you the most

peace, should

get the most

time.

@myselflovesupply

Do not lean

 When the Bible says "do not lean

on your own understanding," the

Bible is being serious. Your heart

is deceitful, your emotion

fluctuate, your understanding

does not see the overall, big

picture. God never lies, God never

changes, God knows all. Trust Him.

Doing less

 You'll never be criticized

by someone who is

doing more than you.

You'll always be criticized

by someone doing less.

Remember that.

~the shark

Enough

 maybe you don't feel like

enough. But neither did two

loaves and five fishes. And look

what God did with that.

Sacrificed

 Many spouses say:

"I have sacrificed

so much for this

marriage."

Time. Energy. Money. Focus.

Sanity. Peace. Stability. Rest.

But God never asked for your sacrifice.

He asked for your obedience.

Paths crossed

 do you ever think about how

insane it is that your paths

crossed with someone? Like the

sequence of events that had to

occur for you to meet them

and be involved in one 

another's life...absolutely wild

Struggling

 Struggling doesn't make you a bad Christian. It makes you human.

That hurt me

 From The Honest Feed

You say, "That hurt me." He says, "So now I'm the bad guy?" Next thing you know, the conversation has completely shifted away from what he did. Now it's about how unfair you're being to him.

And suddenly you're consoling him. Explaining yourself. Softening the very real pain you came into that conversation carrying - just to manage his reaction to being told about it. You walked in with a wound and somehow left apologizing for bleeding. That's not a communication breakdown. That's a deliberate redirect by someone who has no interest in accountability.

It happens the same way every single time. You find the courage to speak up. You choose your words carefully. You come calm, clear, and specific. And within sixty seconds he has made himself the victim of your honesty. The subject has changed. Your feelings are now the problem and his discomfort is now the emergency that needs addressing.

This is not accidental. Fragile egos don't accidentally deflect. They do it because it works. Because she's empathetic enough to feel guilty for making him feel bad - even when what made him feel bad was simply the truth about his behavior.

Real accountability doesn't argue with your pain.

A man who loves you doesn't hear "that hurt me" and immediately calculate how to protect his image. He hears it and asks how to make it right. If every attempt to express your feelings ends with you managing his emotions instead - that's not a relationship built on safety. That's one built on his comfort at the permanent expense of yours.

You say, "That hurt me."

He says, "So now I'm the bad guy?"

Next thing you know, the 

conversation has completely

shifted away from what he did.

Now it's about how unfair you're 

being to him.

Normalize

 Normalize

not trying

harder 

when someone

makes you feel

unwanted.

Constant

 From Viral Video.34

Psychology says when women face constant stress and uncertainty, their bodies learn to live in survival mode.

They stay alert, tense, and emotionally exhausted, even when nothing is happening in the moment. Their minds are always scanning the environment, preparing for the next problem, the next disappointment, the next emotional storm. It becomes a pattern their bodies memorize.

Over time, this constant pressure trains the nervous system to stay on high alert. Rest starts to feel unfamiliar. Peace feels temporary. Even in quiet moments, their thoughts keep racing because their mind has learned that calm never lasts for long.

It's not that they are overthinking or being dramatic. It's that their body has been conditioned by repeated stress, emotional instability, and uncertainty. When someone spends too long in environments where they have to constantly protect themselves emotionally, their brain shifts into survival mode.

And when the nervous system forgets what safety feels like, relaxation doesn't come naturally anymore. It has to be relearned slowly, with patience, healing, and environments where trust and stability finally exist.

Psychology says when women face

constant stress and uncertainty,

their bodies learn to live in survival

mode.

They stay alert, tense and exhausted.

Always waiting for the next thing to

go wrong. Even in moments of calm,

their minds don't relax. It's not

because they're overreacting. It's

because their nervous system has

forgotten what safety feels like.

Love yourself

 saw a video that said

"learn to love yourself so your

mood doesn't depend on how

someone else is treating you"

and that stuck with me

Don't be surprised

 Don't be surprised when God

aligns your partner, your

purpose, and your abundance

in the same season.

You've been fighting battles on every front for so long that you forgot God is capable of blessing you in multiple areas at once. You've been so used to one thing falling apart while another comes together that you stopped believing everything could work out simultaneously.

But God doesn't operate in fragments, when He decides to move in your life He doesn't limit Himself to one category. He's the kind of God who sends the right person, unlocks your purpose, and opens financial doors all in the same breath because He was never the one you said you could only have one blessing at a time.

And I know it sounds too good to believe right now especially when you're sitting in a season where nothing seems to be working. But that's exactly how God operates, the darkest season often comes right before the biggest shift. Everything you've been praying for separately, the love, the clarity, the financial breakthrough, God has been aligning them behind the scenes to arrive together in a way that only He could orchestrate.

So when it all starts happening at once don't question it, don't shrink from it, don't tell yourself you don't deserve it. You prayed through the hardest nights and stayed faithful when giving up made more sense. This is the season where heaven responds to everything you've been carrying in silence.

Breathe

 Hey you,

Just Breathe.

~Healed life~

Need you

 You need you

more than

you need them.

~Know your worth~

How big

 Don't tell God how big your

storm is; tell the storm how

big your God is.

Cry more

I used to think trusting God meant I wouldn't cry as much.

I cried more.

But somewhere in those tears I found out He doesn't leave when things fall apart.

He stays.

He stays.

He stays.

"The Lord is close to the brokenhearted." Psalm 34:18

Trusting God doesn't make you numb.

It makes you held.

Trust in God doesn't mean you

stop crying. It means you're not

crying alone.

Not done yet

 From Christian Life Ministry

This is what the Lord Almighty says: "In a little while, I will once more shake the heavens and the earth, the sea and the dry land. I will shake all nations, and what is desired by all nations will come, and I will fill this house with glory," says the Lord Almighty. "The silver is mine and the gold is mine," declares the Lord Almighty. " The glory of this present house will be greater than the glory of the former house," says the Lord Almighty. "And in this place I will grant peace," declares the Lord Almighty. (Haggai 2:6-9).

Adult children

 Adult Children of Alcoholics

We don't know how to feel.

We don't know what feelings are appropriate.

We were raised to believe only our parents' emotions were valid.

Our emotions were not validated as children.

We learned to believe we had to agree with our parents' views of the world.

We live in fear of feeling inappropriate.

We don't speak up because we don't trust how we feel.

Others may think we're selfish and cold because we are afraid to speak about our feelings.

People don't know how frightened and confused we are when it comes to trusting our emotions or knowing how to process them.

Always waiting

 If you are always waiting for God

to speak to you in words, then you

might miss all of the times He

whispers to you in the glint of sun

just before it bows its head into

the earth.

Or all of the times He nudges you

in the music notes that soften your

heart like a warm hug you never

want to let go of.

And maybe while you are waiting,

you are missing the thousand,

tiny fireflies He sent to dance

across your path to remind you

that the light is all around you.

He is never silent.

We just need to learn to listen with

all of our senses.

~ullie-kaye

Marriage truth

 A marriage truth nobody

mentions:

You'll fall in and out of love with the

same person repeatedly. The

falling out is normal. The falling

back in is the choice. Most people

leave during the out phase. Long

marriages aren't one love story.

They're multiple love stories with 

the same person.

Always has

 Worry assumes God

won't show up.

Faith remembers He

always has.

Always does

 It's truly humbling to

realize that

every time we say,

"God will provide"

He always does --

without fail.

Feel brave

God is not waiting for you 

to feel brave before he

moves within you. He is

already moving within you.

He never asked you to be

unshaken, only to believe

that he is.

Shuts down

 From If you miss me

A man who shuts down every time things get hard is not protecting his peace. He is protecting his ego. Silence is not strength. Disappearing emotionally is not giving space. And making the people around you figure out what is wrong without ever telling them is not maturity. It is avoidance dressed up as composure. The strongest thing a man can do in a difficult conversation is stay. Stay present. Stay honest. Stay willing to be uncomfortable for the sake of the people he loves. Because the woman who loves you should not have to beg you to open up. Your children should not have to tiptoe around your moods. And the people who depend on you should never feel like your emotions are a punishment they have to survive. Walls do not protect relationships. They end them slowly, quietly, and completely.

Waiting

 Waiting matures us.

Waiting humbles us.

Waiting prepares us.

Waiting teaches us

to depend on God.

Not asking

God is not asking 

you to figure it out.

God is asking you to 

trust that He already has. 

Love twice

From Malika TV

There's a beautiful saying that goes like

this:

"If you truly love someone, you love them

twice. The first time, it's all about

attraction, their smile, voice, presence. But

slowly, the curtain lifts. You see their

scars, insecurities, mood swings, trauma,

moral differences. It's no longer perfect.

It's real. And if you can still love them,

without filters, without expectations,

that's not infatuation. That's the love of

understanding. The kind that stays.

The kind that grows."

If you truly love someone, you love them twice -- the first time for the spark, the laughter, the way their presence feels like magic and their smile makes everything seem brighter and lighter all at once; and the second time after you've seen their scars, their insecurities, their past wounds, their flaws, their complicated emotions, and the sides of them that aren't always easy to handle, yet you still choose to stay and love them without conditions or illusions. That's not infatuation, that's not fantasy -- that's understanding, the kind that stays and the kind that grows stronger with time."

The first love is about excitement, chemistry, butterflies, and the thrill of something new that feels almost unreal in its intensity.

The second love is about patience, acceptance, emotional safety, and making a conscious decision to stand beside someone even when things feel ordinary, difficult, or imperfect.

The first happens naturally without effort, driven by emotion and desire.

The second happens intentionally, driven by maturity, depth, and the willingness to love someone exactly as they are.

And when you can love someone twice - once for who they seem to be and again for who they truly are beneath the surface - that's when love becomes deep, steady, and unshakable instead of temporary and fleeting.