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A new (old) kind of beautiful….

It has happened so fast and most of us haven’t noticed the trend. The concept of beautiful has become synonymous with glamor.

And they’re not the same.

This understanding and perspective is failing us.

We have bigger homes with smaller hearts.

We have faster, fancier cars accompanied with even faster breathing.

And we’ve chosen consumption over care for ourselves and our neighbors.

A vote won’t change this. Your next tweet won’t either.

But you can.

You can make the choice to step off the tireless hamster wheel, get out of the glamourous rat race, and waltz with your humanity back into what’s truly beautiful.

Before you start unwrapping on Friday, let’s remember to not get our words mixed up.

Praying this week that you find a way in your world to experience that new, old, kind of beautiful.

The keys are yours…

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LTMP Podcast Episode 15: Lighter and Brighter

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What if we changed our new year resolutions from numbers and the world of measurement to ideals, hopes, and positive mantras we seek to live out and live through our moments? That’s the discussion LTMP Episode 15.

A wonderful book to journey with here is The Art of Possibility by Benjamin and Rosamund Zander. This book realigns me every time I come back to it. I recommend reading it a couple of times a year…it’s that good.

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You and Your Words

They carry us.

They build new worlds.

They can oxygenate a suffocating room and they suffocate a room that  breathes on hope.

They take us to new places.

They shine the way.

And, sometimes, they’re all we have.

You design and choose them and they will go wherever you send them.

And, in the end, our worlds reflect our words.

So before you say it, type it, text it, or even repeat it…think about what type of world you want to live in.

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What’s next?

Here’s the good news, the answer to the question ‘what’s next’ is currently in you.

Have you noticed the trees recently?

The leaves are beautifully falling away right now, but where would you expect to find the next ones that are waiting to replace them?

On the inside.

Though outwardly we’re wasting away and losing our leaves, yet inwardly we’re being renewed and prepping for the next bloom.

So may you rake your leaves and be grateful for their role in this last season.

Just don’t keep trying to glue them back on.

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