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He watches over you

We can feel alone, but to have someone there with us helps. He watches over me even in the dark of the night.
 
It’s the comfort of having someone there.
I know of a young man that has trouble getting to sleep. At times one of his parents has slept on a mattress next time.
It’s that assurance, that sense of presence, that knowing that they are not alone.
 
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God, give me sleep

Restless nights, anxious thoughts, and a longing for sleep, but it alludes us. ‘God, give me sleep’ you pray
 
I’ve had times in my life where getting to sleep has been difficult. At other times, I would wake during the night and not be able to get back to sleep.
Sleep is so variable, isn’t it?
 
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A Comfort at Christmas

Christmas can have dark shadows, but what if God came close? God can provide a comfort at Christmas. 
 
As I write this, I think of someone I know that has had a death in their family. It’s a loss, a grief, a tearing of relationship.
Christmas. Will it be a place of comfort for them?
There will be shadows. Memories and moments of grief.
I am praying for them that they would sense a comfort at Christmas that passes beyond understanding.
What’s Christmas like for you?
 
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Hope and Mental Health

Hope and mental health. They seem quite linked, but what helps them both to dance together well?
 
I recently had a picture pop into my head. It was a headstone, in a cemetery, and engraved into the old tired stone was the name of the deceased – Hope.
Not a person’s name, but more the concept of hope. That things might get better.
Hope had died, was buried, was gone, and had left the building.
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Better boundaries?

You need better boundaries. How many have said this to you? How about a better knowing of yourself first? #boundaries
Better boundaries come from the inside out
Three types of boundaries
1. Imposed boundaries.
2. Adopted boundaries.
3. Internalised Owned boundaries.
 
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I want to stir you up.

I want to stir you up. Not to stir up anger or trouble. Actually, quite the opposite, but to love and good works.
So often I hear in people a tiredness, a lethargy, even a complete deadness to something that sits resident within their souls.
Maybe they have been put down, criticised, mocked, or ignored. They might have shared something deep, but it wasn’t listened to well.
 
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Unburdened From What Has Been

We carry so much load, but what if we were unburdened? Perhaps the donkey might learn to dance light and free.
 
It's an image that tells a story.
The story of a heavy laden down camel carrying a load of straw and the little proverb 'the final straw that broke the camel's back'
It's the load. The burden. It's the feather.
The weight, awkwardness, and struggle that eventually takes one out.
What are you carrying?
What weighs upon your thinking and bends upon your back?
 
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The Problem is The Problem - Not the Person

We all have problems, but we can over-personalise them. But the problem is the problem. The problem is not the person.
 
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To Forgive Is to Remember… Differently

Do you find it easier to slide in your thinking to the negative than to the good?
I need help and I think you do too.
Not so much to keep focusing on the positive, but to keep focused on truth – God’s truth, how God sees everything.
How you talk about God is how you talk about everything.
I need help to balance my brain with a kind of grounded God reality that keeps me running true and straight.
Not too much negative that might drag me away and under waves of despair.
 

The Real Problem

We have obvious problems, but real problems, the ones that drive us to unwell ness, can only be resolved by deep soul work. What's going on underneath?
We have problems. Every one reading this will have multiple problems.
I just got news from a family member that the biopsies came back negative for cancer. A huge problem has been resolved. Relief floods my soul.
Some problems are obvious. I need food for dinner, a home to live in, a job. I need a friend who won't use and abuse me. I need security.
They are very real problems.
 
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