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With love and hope,
Shawn
“Let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, since as members of one body you were called to peace.”
— Colossians 3:15
Happy Halloween
Happy Halloween🎃
Love,
Georgia🐾
Wonder and Joy
Sometimes it requires taking a step back, and seeing life through someone else’s eyes, to discover the wonder and the joy in the day❄️🎃
With love and hope,
Shawn
“And amazement seized them all, and they glorified God and were filled with awe, saying, “We have seen extraordinary things today.”
- Luke 5:26
Palms Up
Whatever we are going through today, may we...
pause. breathe. pray.
And do our best to live out this truth while holding on to hope, that will anchor our souls.
With love and hope,
Shawn
Trust in God with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding, in all your ways acknowledge Him so He will make your path straight.
- Proverbs 3:5-6
Choose to Love
Today I had to get a ctscan for my sinuses. It’s not a big deal. The lingering effects of radiation, yes, even three years later, are giving me sinus issues which I need to deal with.
As I walked down the hallway to get the scan, I passed these chairs marked, MRI, CTScan, XRay, etc. As I walked by the people in these chairs, I prayed for them.
Yet moments earlier I was sitting in the waiting room with people and didn’t think to pray for them.
What I realized is that seeing these signs on their chairs gave me a glimpse into their reality, and a reason to pray for them.
The truth is, every person we pass throughout our day has something they are going through. The thing is, there isn’t a sign on their chair, or on their back, telling us what they are going through.
I share this with you to invite you to join me to...
pause. breathe. pray.
We do not need a sign to remind us that each person we pass throughout our day is going through something. May we visualize a blank sign on each person, know God knows their hearts, and pray for them. Even though we will never know the power of our prayers, we will know the transformative power of choosing to love others, even when we don’t know their story.
With love and hope,
Shawn
P.S. Give this a try...maybe even while waiting in line to vote🤷♀️💕🙏💕
“Love your neighbor as yourself.” - Mark 12:31
Exciting News!
This news brought tears of joy to my eyes!
As a rare cancer survivor who fears having a recurrence, knowing there will be a place where people will be specifically working on treatments for these rare cancers is huge!
I am so grateful that @danafarber saw the need and took action to provide more options of care for these rare cancers. This is one of the first centers in the country dedicated to this💝
I didn’t think I could love Boston more, but I do💙💛
And although I pray it never comes back, just knowing this center will be there working towards specific therapies to help those who are fighting, brings a wave of gratitude and hope to my heart today.
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With gratitude and hope,
Shawn
To learn more visit:
www.dana-farber.org/rareHNcancer
Celebrate Other's Successes
Today my youngest was sitting at the computer and I heard him excitedly say, “wow, level 37!”
I asked him what he was talking about and he said, “someone in my class is at reading level 37. That’s epic!”
(He slid humor in there as he always does as the program they used is called Epic👏).
He sat there smiling, happy for his classmate, no judgement towards himself or jealousy showed. He simply was celebrating his classmates success with contentment with where he is.
I share this with you today because it was a beautiful thing to witness and a lesson so important for us to practice; celebrating one another’s successes.
I invite you to join me today to...
pause. breathe. pray.
The next time we hear of someone’s good news, may we notice that judgement towards ourselves, or jealousy, may naturally creep in. Yet instead may we pray for God to take those captive and instead choose to celebrate their success with them, and feel the joy and contentment in our heart, as Matt did.
With love and hope,
Shawn
“You make known to me the path of life; you will fill me with joy in your presence...” - Psalm16:11
Be Present with God
“God is with you wherever you go.”
- Joshua 1:9
#pausebreathepray #liveoutlove #livefromtheinsideout #actsoflove
The Calm of God's Truth
Are you carrying around tension more and more these days?
I was too to the point my doctors told me I was stuck in the fight or flight response. I have been working for months to get out of it, mentally and physically.
Acupuncture has been a tool to help me undo the tension physically and a space where I can lay and pray aligning myself back with God, releasing the mental tension.
Something my acupuncturist shared with me which has been helpful is to think about how “The strongest and most consistent energy will be the most influencing energy.”
I share this to ask you the same question I have asked myself, “whose energy is influencing you today?” Is it your kids, your significant others, a person outside your home, or online? Is it fear, worry, frustration, anger?
If so, I invite you to join me to...
pause. breathe. pray.
May we recognize that at the moment we are no longer attending to our own internal world, and allowing our relationship with God to be our strongest, most consistent and influential energy, we’ve given permission to allow other people’s energy to influence our internal world. May today we grow in awareness of this. Then let’s take a step away from letting other’s energy be what influences us. Instead, may we come back to the steady, calm of God’s truth, wisdom and love to dissolve the tensions within.
With love and hope,
Shawn
PS If you know someone who may benefit from this message today, tag them or send it their way💕
“He caused the storm to be still, So that the waves of the sea were hushed. Then they were glad because they were quiet, so He guided them to their desired haven.” - Psalm 107:29-30
Recognize the Good Around Us
I was walking with Matt and some friends the other day. We were pushing our feet through the abundance of leaves that have fallen and were talking about how we didn’t like the withering leaves on the ground. We carried on in the conversation for a couple of minutes about things we didn’t like about the crunchy dead leaves.
Then I heard one of my friends say in amazement, “look at what we’d miss if we forgot to look up!”
Then we all paused and looked up at the beautiful leaves in the trees, the light shining through, and the beautiful fall day we were standing in the middle of.
I share this with you today because these days there are a lot of things that can capture our attention that we don’t like and we can get stuck there focused on those things. Our thoughts, and conversations, can circle around what is wrong.
If you can relate, I invite you to join me to...
pause. breathe. pray.
May we recognize if we are stuck in a pattern of focusing on what is wrong. May we choose to look up and see all that is right and that we have to be grateful for. Even in the most challenging days, circumstances and/or seasons, there is good to be seen. Today may we choose to give our hearts and minds a rest from what is wrong as we recognize the good around us.
With love and hope,
Shawn
Whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable--if anything is excellent or praiseworthy--think about such things. - Philippians 4:8