Tag: Truth
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A Gallon of Milk and the Space Between Joy and Grief
G=Goals O=Outlook A=Authentic T=Truth (#coateisaGOAT) Sweet friend, I have to tell you where I’ve been this week because I have a feeling some of you have stood in this same strange, sacred place. Grief is not one-size-fits-all. I think we know that in our heads, but we don’t really understand it until we’re living inside…
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When Looking Back Helps You Move Forward
G=Goals O=Outlook A=Authentic T=Truth (#coateisaGOAT) Sweet friend, have you ever had one of those weeks where the past just quietly finds you? Not because you went looking for it. Not because you’re stuck there. It simply shows up… in a song, a movie, a smell, a familiar prayer, or a memory you didn’t even realize…
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The Fixer in Me
G=Goals O=Outlook A=Authentic T=Truth (#coateisaGOAT) Sweet friend, this prayer journey is changing me. Not with lightning bolts or dramatic moments. Not because every prayer has been answered or every circumstance has suddenly fallen into place. Instead, it’s been quieter than that. More like the Lord gently pulling back layer after layer of my heart and…
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Playing the Quiet Game
G=Goals O=Outlook A=Authentic T=Truth (#coateisaGOAT) Sweet friend, can I ask you something? Where in your life have you been playing the quiet game? Maybe at work. Maybe in a relationship. Maybe in your family. Maybe at church. Not because you don’t have something to say. Not because you don’t know what needs to change. But…
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Sixty Days, All In
G=Goals O=Outlook A=Authentic T=Truth (#coateisaGOAT) Sweet friend, last week I introduced you to the book I’ve been sitting with lately — If You Want to Walk on Water, You’ve Got to Get Out of the Boat by John Ortberg— and this week, I kept reading. And y’all… something in these chapters stopped me right in…
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Not Every Wave is an Invitation
G=Goals O=Outlook A=Authentic T=Truth (#coateisaGOAT) Sweet friend, can I ask you something? What’s your boat? I’ve been sitting with that question all week. I’m listening to If You Want to Walk on Water, You’ve Got to Get Out of the Boat by John Ortberg— and one line just stopped me cold: choice, risk, and comfort…
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When You Can’t See Him Working
G=Goals O=Outlook A=Authentic T=Truth (#coateisaGOAT) Sweet friend, I have been sitting with something all week that I just cannot shake. And maybe that’s because the Lord doesn’t always whisper through the easy things. Sometimes, He speaks through the moments that stop us in our tracks. This week, there was a wreck right outside of campus.…
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When Safe Feels Scary: Learning to Live Outside Survival Mode
G=Goals O=Outlook A=Authentic T=Truth (#coateisaGOAT) Sweet friend, can I be honest with you today? I have spent the better part of my life in survival mode. And I don’t mean that as a figure of speech. I mean the kind of survival mode that gets wired into you — the kind that starts in the…
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Every Day Is Already the Day
G=Goals O=Outlook A=Authentic T=Truth (#coateisaGOAT) There’s something about this stretch of the calendar that always makes me stop and think. We just came off of Teacher Appreciation Week, and here we are on Mother’s Day, and sweet friend, I’ve been sitting with something all morning that I just can’t shake. We live in a world…
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Full Moon Weeks and Reset Sundays
G=Goals O=Outlook A=Authentic T=Truth (#coateisaGOAT) Sweet friend, have you ever made it to Friday and immediately started wondering…is there a full moon or something? Because that was me last week. Just absolutely wrung out—mentally, physically, emotionally—standing at the end of a week that felt like it had been personally designed to test every last nerve…