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( 17-24) Be kind. Be joyful. Be a force of nature.
I can hide my heart, and my past, and my future plans, from those around me, but I cannot hide anything from God. I can talk in a way that deceives my fellow creatures as to what I really am, but nothing I say or do can deceive God. He sees through all my reserve and pretense; he knows me as I really am, better indeed than I know myself.
J.I. Packer, Knowing God
From the bottom of my heart I hope 2020 is a better mental health year for everyone
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“I ran track for nine years and it taught me that the only thing that ever mattered was beating your own personal best. If you came in last but ran your fastest time ever, it was a good meet. If you came in first with a worse time than last meet, it was a let down. Because all that mattered- literally all that mattered- was that you were improving. How everyone else was doing was irrelevant because they were your competition for one day and then you didn’t know if you were ever going to race against them again. As long as you were faster or stronger than you were last week, it didn’t matter who else was faster or stronger than you. And the same goes for being a good daughter/husband/sister/girlfriend or sticking to your diet or passing your exams. As long as you’re making an effort to be better than you were yesterday, you’re succeeding. And how everyone else is doing is completely insignificant.”—
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“i asked God why He made me too sensitive, and He promised me that it wasn’t a mistake. He told me He purposely made me delicate, not so that i could shatter easily, not so that i could be frail, not so that i could be told i’m “too soft” whenever someone tries to touch me it was so i could know of the gentle beauty in living. and in my tenderness, i can love in a way the world may not know of yet. my compassion has the power to speak raging waves to calmness and i can appreciate the little things He created that go unnoticed. there is something special in being fragile, and it has nothing to do with weakness, and everything to do with strength. being sensitive is a gift, He answered, and i shouldn’t be ashamed of it.”— Christina Hopp // things im learning
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