I Like...Photo-A-Day Challenges
/...and I finally made it through a whole month with every day done!!!{I only started trying sometime last summer...}
Enjoy!
I tried to take pictures that would remind me of that day specifically when I looked at them. For the most part, I think I did a really good job, and it's so fun to look at one photo and be taken back to that day.
So yes...I like photo-a-day challenges...now. {I didn't for awhile when I could never successfully complete one.}
But now I have...and I do. =)
Do you like photo-a-day challenges?
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![Somewhere in the past two years, I started writing down the things God spoke to me.
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The single word whispered into the stillness of my heart.
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The song lyrics that seemed suddenly, unexpectedly profound.
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The words texted by a friend to say that while praying for me God had given her a message for me.
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The verses that kept popping up everywhere like I just couldn’t get away from them.
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The truths that weighed deeply on my heart while studying God’s Word.
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The stories from friends and strangers alike that encouraged and challenged me to my core.
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The words of conviction and rebuke spoken into my life by trusted counselors.
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The promises God wrote into His word that I needed to remember.
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I call it my When He Speaks Journal, and the writing, referencing, and rereading of it has changed me.
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Really changed me. I think that’s why this post feels deeply important to me, because I’m sharing the thing that has developed my relationship and intimacy with God more than anything besides reading His Word and prayer. And that is priceless to me.
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This spiritual discipline of sorts has helped me walk through some of my hardest days with a bit more hope and faith in the God who sees me than I would have otherwise had.
[read more on my blog]
[Link in profile]
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![Yesterday afternoon I wrote a blog post about how God answers prayer. How He really truly absolutely completely for sure answers prayers and how that looks different and more wonderful than I used to think.
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Three weeks ago I wrote and published a post about how God told me, “When I answer all your prayers, worship Me.”
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Today God answered a prayer we have been praying for over two years.
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And I’m blown away by the timing of it all. God is so good. And as if I needed any more convincing, He really truly absolutely completely for sure answers prayers.
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Look for the first post mentioned above in 2 or 3 weeks on my blog. In the meantime, you can go three posts back on my blog and read the post titled “What It Means to Worship”.
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![“If the Bible is true, and God is real, and then you don’t have to take care of yourself because you’re already going to be taken care of, you don’t have to be selfish. You can just do things for other people because you’re going to get taken care of.” @anniefdowns .
These words came through my headphones this afternoon and stopped me in my tracks.
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To be fair, I’m already way over tired, possibly coming down with a head cold (please just be allergies), and feeling a little pensive and weepy. But these words make me want to cry and sing at the same time.
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I stopped the podcast and made my husband listen to the few minutes surrounding this with me. And then I listened again on my own so I could write it down.
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Because these words? They are breathing freedom and hope into my afternoon. Maybe they can do the same for you.
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[The podcast is That Sounds Fun with Annie F Downs, 2018 Christmas Party Episode 2, with Ellie Holcomb]
@anniefdowns @ellieholcomb
Thank you for speaking truth and hope and faith into my heart today.
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![In many ways, every post I write is for myself, but occasionally there is a post I write that is like God took the pen and wrote out the lesson He is trying to teach me through my own words.
This is one of those.
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“There is a drum beating on my heart, pounding in my ears, and slowly, slowly growing in force. With each thrumming beat, the message becomes a little clearer, a little stronger.
We don’t get to decide for others.
We don’t get to decide for others.
We don’t get to decide for others.”
[continued on my blog]
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I wrote this post over six months ago. And since then God has pointed me back to it time and time and time again.
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He’s stopped me dead in my tracks again and again to remind me, “Alesha, you don’t get to decide for others. You just get to love them and pray for them and help them and encourage them. Remember what you wrote? It applies here.”
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