Mid-week Question of the Week~What if it’s Not?

Ask yourself “WHAT IF?” as often as you can. And sometimes, when you are making plans and making goals and dreaming dreams and all of it seems too big and unattainable, turn things around…

ask yourself …

“what if… it’s not?”

If you’re going over something scary in your mind, over and over and over, ask yourself “what if that really did happen?” and then let the whole situation play out — worse case scenario. See yourself dealing with every little part of it and see that even if the thing you feared most really did happen, you would make it, so you can let go of fear.

Asking “WHAT IF?” releases all limitations, and makes anything possible. When you find yourself stuck, whether because you think your goals are too big, or because your strength is too small, push past those limitations and really be honest with yourself. You will learn so much from this tiny little question.
“what if… it’s not?” from Brave Girls Club

Because of Grace…what if it’s not?

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Additional Questions

Mid-week question of the week~April 24~Effort

What is your best? What is our best?

What if, more effort does not yield your best?

Is striving a quintessential component of our best?

What if striving is a seducer promising control over something that was never part of the plan of Grace?

Mid-week Question: Failure Possibilities

After awhile the practice of staying in preexisting conditions twists into a type of emotional suffocation.

This week there are two questions (double trouble or double pondering, you decide). I read these at the Scoutie Girl blog by Tara Gentile.

What are you doing that risks the possibility of failure?
What helps you look failure in the face and move forward with new hope?

Read more at Tara’s post by gently clicking here

And, a timely reminder from Rick Warren: God blesses His plans, not ours separate from Him.

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Other Questions to Consider

Mid-week Question of the Week~February 20~Care and Feeding

Question of the Day taken from Scoutie Girl

   What feeds you?

And, please remember… You. Matter. You are God’s good idea –what a great thought from Jennifer Dukes Lee. 

You are God’s masterpiece.

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More Questions to Consider

Mid-week Question of the Week~February 13

Who is worth your tears…and who is not?

He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore. ~Revelation 21:4

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Additional Questions

Mid-week Question of the Week~February 6

Where do you think all these appalling wars and quarrels come from? Do you think they just happen? Think again. They come about because you want your own way, and fight for it deep inside yourselves. ~James 4:1 (msg)

A path on a higher road calls…maybe not our own way , or a way we thought about and trained to achieve…but…another way perhaps…
a way of love…

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Other Questions

Mid-Week Question~January 16

Were you able to get through last week on your own strength?

 

A Free Download:  A Year of Gratitude from Ann Voskamp

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Mid-Week Question of the Week~November 7~Hearing

Did you hear God’s voice today?

Would love to receive your comments…  :)

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Mid-week Question of the Week~October 31~Nevermore

Are you at your place of nevermore?

Is there something that needs to end for you? As the month ends, is there something or someone or someplace you that is your Nevermore?

If there is, might you also remember the people, places, and things that Remain?

…The Remaining Place of Grace…

Your sun will never set again,  and your moon will wane no more; the LORD will be your everlasting light,  and your days of sorrow will end.
Isaiah 60:20

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Midweek Question~October 24~Legacy Past or Future?

How do you leave a legacy different than the one you’ve been left?
How can grace get a hold of you when the past won’t let go of you?

Both questions from Ann Voskamp in this post

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Previous Questions

Mid-Week Question: Did You?

I just love her!

Rumi wrote, “Look for the answer inside the question.” The answer to today’s question is important!

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Midweek Question of the Week: Compassion

What if compassion is the stance we adopt towards ourselves?

What if compassion became the Antitoxin of our soul?

Gently click to read more about
The Surprising Motivational Power of Self-Compassion

This Weekend~Easy Weekend Activity~Stop Watering the Weeds

Just wondering…while getting ready for a challenge…

is getting offended another way to water the weeds?
is it best to move on and “accept the things I cannot change?”

I’ve been told even more frequently lately to “take care of yourself”

is taking care of myself (and you taking care of yourself) a way to water the flowers?

Previous Weekend Activities

Mid-week Question of the Week~Darkness

What unchartered places call to you?
Are you afraid of the dark?

The people remained at a distance, while Moses approached the thick darkness where God was. ~ Exodus 20:21

We do not need to fear entering the presence of God even if it means entering through a period of darkness. Above all else we must believe that God is a God of love. If He calls us into darkness in order to enter His presence, then that darkness will become an entry to new levels of relationship with a God who longs for fellowship with you and me. ~Os Hillman

When you’re confronted by a difficult task, what are the effects of considering it an opportunity for God to stretch your faith? ~Jon Walker

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Previous Questions to Consider
Other thoughts from Os Hillman
Other thoughts from Jon Walker

Image Source: VegaStar Carpentier

Mid-Week Question~Nourish

A brand new month gives the occasion to ask a new question:

How Can You Nourish Your Soul Today?

You add so much beauty to the world in the world around you.

Please consider the replenishment that you and I need.
We are in the triple-digit days of heat here and I am mindful of how sadly the herbs in the front yard droop just one day in the heat.
I am amazed at how quickly they respond to the nourishment of the water I pour on them.

Our souls respond just as quickly.
Souls are nourished on truths of faith. ~1 Timothy 4:4-6

How can you nourish your soul today?
Perhaps reading this post  or this post will provide ideas.

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The answer’s simple:  Live right,  speak the truth,  despise exploitation,  refuse bribes,  reject violence,  avoid evil amusements.  This is how you raise your standard of living!  A safe and stable way to live.  A nourishing, satisfying way to live. ~Isaiah 33:15- the message

Previous Questions to Consider

Mid-Week Question of the Week~How?

 How is God calling you to speak in your full voice?
~Bonnie Gray in this post

Mid-Week Question: Unclench

What fists must I clench to receive His grace and blessing?

What fists must you unclench?

Here is a quote from Paul Taubman @ All About Gratitude that I am trying to understand.

“Most of us have two lives. The life we live, and the unlived life within us.
Between the two stands Resistance.”
  ~Steven Pressfield

Perhaps you could help me?

 

 

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This post inspired by Kristen Noelle at Trust Tending

Other Questions

Midweek Question of the Week~from Glenda the Good Witch

Glenda the Good Witch was correct:

What step is God asking you to take?

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Other Questions to Consider

Mid-Week Question of the Week~Habits

Photo by Helen Teague

Which of your practices and habits cause you more harm than good?
Which need a grace-filled sweep of His Love?

For me the answer would have to be fear. Fear of confrontation and interestingly, the fear of the fear of confrontation. The dread of the possibility of being unfairly accused, confronted, and blame.
“You know your fear is not from God,” my friend David assured me as I drove with shaky hands to a funeral of a dear soul. There was the possibility of voices from the past, all too eager to believe unfair accusations.

And in the fear, in the possibility of fear was His Grace.

“Greater is He that is in you, than he that is in the world,” David reminded me.

And in accepting this fact, in welcoming my fear as a vehicle for His grace to be revealed, my soul quieted.
And so did the voices, of the accusers. The accusers were primarily of my own making, in my own head. 

And hugs replaced fears. They far out-numbered the couple of people who tried to feed my fears.
Because of Grace, a soul named Wanna, who was honored at her funeral  trumped the frowns of fear.

And I sang silently an old hymn she loved, “Sweet Hour of Prayer.”

Mid-Week Question of the Week: Grace-filled Aptitudes and Abilities

Am I going to be more giving or getting in life?

(Pssst…it’s not too late to Undo)

This one nudges me to look in the mirror. And, in looking, may it not be said of me as it was of those before, “But they all alike began to make excuses.” (Luke 14:18)  And perhaps, then, you and I may help your kids/friends/loved ones look at their spiritual gifts, heart, abilities, personality and experiences to figure out their grace-filled aptitudes and abilities.

Define and Refine by asking, “Am I going to be more in giving or getting in life?”
Read more by gently clicking here