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Encouragement for gals to see their inner value
Making the Beatitudes your own I read the Beatitudes in the New Living Translation, and for the first time I could really feel this sermon speaking to me. I read this section, and then I re-read it, personalizing it with my own name. This was so meaningful to me, I decided to share it … Read more Beatitudes
I am dismayed by people who shame gals for carrying extra weight. OK, those folks are not really monsters, but sometimes they sound like monsters when they shame gals! Someone has to stick up for these gals, and today, that is going to be me! I want to defend you gals, because shame has no … Read more My Weight Loss, or Are You a Monster?
When you think of your greatest weakness, could this actually be the shadow side of the moon? The moon can reflect light from one side, while shadows enshroud the other side. In our lives, we willingly show others our strengths, but we dread having our weakest sides show. Yet our weaknesses are often the opposite … Read more Your Greatest Weakness, or the Shadow Side of the Moon?
What if you still don’t feel beautiful, valuable or good enough? When I planned to create my website, I wanted to encourage gals of all ages, letting them know they are beautiful, valuable and cherished by God. But what if my readers keep feeling badly about themselves? Sometimes words cannot convince a gal she is … Read more What if you still do not feel beautiful?
We gals need friends, in plural. Having one best friend, to the exclusion of other friends, limits our emotional and spiritual growth. We need friends from different walks of life (economic, racial, educational, and even by personality). We also need more than one best friend, because we can become needy or even codependent when we … Read more More Than One Friend
Mothers are over looked, under valued, but God sees our worth, and our impact on the future is essential.
As a Christian, I never tied my grief to my over eating. I denied I even felt any grief and blamed my weight issues on stress. While I was in my early twenties, Janet, a petite friend confronted this stress eating that others had called my poor self control. She saw me exercising, … Read more Embracing Grief
We gals judge ourselves too harshly. But we may not have started out that way. I shared about how researchers asked kindergartners if they could dance, sing and draw, and these children said, “Yes!” Yet as girls aged, their answers changed to say, “I cannot” I want to address another way this happens. The researchers … Read more More Reflections on Overcoming Silencing of Gals
I pray that many gals will read this post, because I am so grieved by how many women (gals) do not see themselves as beautiful. I once attended an amazing church, Rock Harbor. The pastor spoke about his wife who had a past she regretted. Yet she was kind, good hearted, even beautiful. Her husband … Read more All Gals are Beautiful