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Full Of Answers

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Silence Is Always Full Of Answers!

I think of this phrase 2 ways –

First; we have to tune out the noise of the world and others in order to hear what we need to from God. Get alone with Him – be still and know…

Second; when someone is going silent or “ghosting” you, look closer – look deeper, pay attention to the silence they are relaying because there could be some answers waiting for you there too.

For God alone, O my soul, waits in silence, for my hope is from Him. ~ Psalm 62:5

XXOO Michelle Cosby Bollom

The Miracle Of Love

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Love is a positive feeling and if one cultivates this feeling in their life, they will surely free themselves from any unbalanced condition that surrounds them. ~Syd Banks

Anger, whether unfocused or triggered by a troubling experience or a hostile person, discolors our perspective through an afternoon or a full day, perhaps even a week. Our understanding of events is always directly related to the attitude we’ve chosen to harbor. No situation or person, however difficult, has the power to steal away our happiness without our passive consent.

So willingly we humans adopt negative attitudes. With grandiose egos, we resent rain pouring on our picnic plans or a friend’s illness canceling an engagement. Our choices for actions, feelings, or attitudes are far greater than those we habitually turn to. And it’s likely we know love least of all. But just as anger breeds more anger, love cultivates more love, and each life that’s touched by love profits from it.

When we make a decision to practice love unconditionally – loving ourselves, our neighbors and co-workers, even the snarling strangers sharing our traffic jam, we’ll quickly experience the miracle of love in our own lives.

~ Worthy Of Love by Karen Casey

Pithy Maxims

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Here’s an aphorism for you!

(Hold On! It’s not a sugar coated message…)

Aphorisms are straightforward or pithy maxims.

“Don’t be like a dog always returning to his vomit” …

“Like a dog that returns to its vomit, So is a fool who repeats his foolishness.”
— Proverbs 26:11

Complacency can quickly become your cage.

Your worth is what you believe it is… your future is only as bright as you want it to be…

Foolishness is lack of good sense or judgment; stupidity.

A complacent person feels that they do not need to do anything about a situation, even though the situation may be uncertain or dangerous.

Here’s some simple “Pithy Maxims” … 👇🏻

You want better health – get up off your arse and move. Clean up your diet. Plan Prep and Remove the junk!

You want to have more financial freedom – quit buying crap you don’t need and make a budget and stick to it. Stop living beyond your means. Get a job if you don’t have one.

You want good quality relationships – quit going back to those toxic connections that you know you need to break free from, it’s like a dog going back to his own vomit.
It’s foolishness.
Stop being complacent!

When you truly know your worth and the price God paid for you – you will stop entertaining anything or anyone that cheapens you.

It really is that simple …
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We ALWAYS have a choice.

XXOO 😘 Michelle Cosby Bollom

A Deeper Connection

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Do you ever feel like you have that someone in your life … a parent … a sibling… a partner … a friend; that you seem to always be feeling like you are hustling for their approvals or acceptance or accolades or affections?

When we are craving deeper heart Connections and all we are getting is superficial surface fluff…it gets hard to not want to either hustle for affection or retreat with resentments.

Recently I watched two tables while out at a dinner meeting and it made me want to cry. One person was stuck with their face in the phone and the other one looked lost and deeply sad.

I too have been in others presence and watched as they engaged with others on their mobile while I sat silent feeling dished and excluded.

I too have been guilty and put my phone above my family and friends at times.

I try to practice time off my phone now. It’s a choice. I turn my phone off at a certain time and people know if I don’t respond I am on off time. They also know if they have a true emergency I can be reached by a special land line.

Trust me – there is not a call or text so important that it can’t wait till the morning.

I really struggled with this because I get calls, messages and texts from people I know and strangers contacting me for Ministry and Prayer needs. I have learned not to answer everything like a 911 call.

I will send an auto reply or explain I am not available at the current moment and will get back to them soon. Sometimes God does have me drop everything immediately for them.

We must learn to hear God and let Him direct and guide us and not let the ding of our devices control us.

We should not have to hustle for the attention or affections of others.

If you are with people that are tied to the telephone – may you have the boldness to ask them – Can we connect without distractions today? And I pray they hear you.

But if they don’t want to do that, I pray God brings you the people that think you are pretty dang special and worthy to put their phones away for.

Don’t make people hustle for your attention. Put that phone away and start to connect deeper.

~ XXOO Michelle Cosby Bollom

Survival Maintenance & Growth

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We need four hugs a day for survival.

We need eight hugs a day for maintenance.

We need twelve hugs a day for growth.

Virginia Satir was an internationally acclaimed therapist. She knew a lot about what people need to be healthy and happy and to live in good relationships with each other. She was very smart, and most of her advice was pretty simple.

Take hugs, for example. What could be more simple? One person reaching out to touch another person with safety and care. Very simple.

But what do hugs give people?

Comfort. Acceptance. The basics we all need no matter where we are at today.

So, let us all remember to Give Hugs today!