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Book Review: “True Life: Practical Wisdom from the Book of Ecclesiastes” by Carolyn Mahaney & Nicole Whiteacre
Introduction Have you ever felt like no matter how much you try to organize things, they never turn out quite how you’d like them to? Do you spend your life trying to make special moments happen, only to watch them slip through your grasp? Do you feel like life is an endless cycle of repetitive activities that you must do over, and over, and over again? How can you find joy when things go terribly wrong? True Life: Practical Wisdom from the Book of Ecclesiastes provides you with answers and encouragement from King Solomon himself, who had every earthly pleasure and found no satisfaction in any of it. “Vanity of…
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7 Good Mental Health Habits to Continue in 2023
I love making New Year’s resolutions. (Here’s a list of my past New Year’s resolutions: 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022). This year, however, I decided to set the goal of continuing some good mental health habits I started in 2022. The first group of my good mental health habits concerns food. I’ve posted a lot about my struggles with overeating, and I continue to fight against that sin in my life. Overeating, for me, is a spiritual issue. I understand the ideas behind methods such as intuitive eating, intermittent fasting, and diets like keto and paleo. None of this matters, however, if I choose to continue to eat foods I shouldn’t…
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A Few of My Favorite Quotes from Let Me Be a Woman by Elisabeth Elliot
“You can’t make proper use of a thing unless you know what it was made for, whether it is a safety pin or sailboat. To me it is a wonderful thing to be a woman under God–to know, first of all, that we were made (‘So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.’) and then that we were made for something (‘The rib which the Lord God had taken from the man he made into a woman and brought her to the man.’).” Elisabeth Elliot (pg. 22) *** “Wherever you are be all there. Live to…