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books · 02/29/2020

Recent Read: Get Out Of Your Head

I am a bookworm. You will usually find my reading 2-3 at a time, and I’m often quoting authors in daily conversations. It is pure happiness to chug information I’m interested in or authors I respect and trust. It also can be wearying and overwhelming to my soul, constantly inputting new content. At the beginning of 2020, in my dreaming and brainstorming with God, He prompted me to aim at absorbing content instead of inhaling it.

In December, I wrote down 8-10 titles I have been wanting to read or seemed relevant and timely for where I am personally and spiritually. One that wasn’t on the list but I preordered was Jennie Allen’s latest, Get Out Of Your Head.

I have always been a deep (and wide) thinker. And while this is a sweet part of my life with God, it also takes a LOT of discipline. The negative term for it might be over-analyzer. Am I often clumsy in the diligence? Yes. It is still necessary? 100% yes.

One reason I believe it is essential to train my mind to continually align and realign to the gospel is because God’s voice is the only pure, undistorted voice. His character is unchanging. His nature is holy, meaning His leading and counsel for you are perfect. His heart is for you.

We are all human, meaning we are all flawed. This means the books we read, the advice we’re given and guidance we receive shouldn’t have the final say for us. Why? Because even good intentions can be rooted in selfishness or pride. Even wise advice from a trusted friend can be lacking. Even a family member’s opinion can be skewed. Even the most popular book on sleep for your baby doesn’t know your unique child. Even counsel given by loved ones is filtered their life experiences.

I’m currently learning this as a new mom. There are many things that apply pressure and expectation that are actually morally neutral. The way is wisdom and the path is worn by submitting desires, worries and plans to the Lord.

We offer encouragement and counsel from what we know, and that’s wonderful and a gift of relationship.

Get Out Of Your Head is reminding me that God and His Word should always have the final say. The truth of Scripture is the only thing powerful enough to pave a clear path through the mountain and valley moments of our daily lives. It is the only thing that can offer lasting peace, genuine joy and sustaining hope in any circumstance.

Some favorite passages from Jennie’s book:

Heroes of the faith are not subject to their own thoughts. They are not subject to their feelings. They believe in one chief aim, and with every ounce of their power, they are working to think about Christ. Jesus is the axis around which all their thought spirals spin. When their minds turn and turn, they fixate on Him. (41)

We were not built to live for ourselves. (186)

The only true self-help is for us as followers of Jesus to believe who we are as daughters and sons of the King of the universe and to know that our identities are secured by the shed blood of God’s own Son. When we believe that about ourselves, we think less about ourselves and more about the mission we have been given to love God and the people God puts in front of us, no matter the circumstances… Self-help can offer only a better version of yourself; Christ is after a whole new you. (56, 57)

Taking every thought captive is not about what happens to us. It’s about choosing to believe that God is with us, is for us, and loves us even when all hell comes against us. (63)

Freedom is found in laying our lives down in the service of God, the One who made us, who knows us, and who has welcomed us into fellowship with Him. It is in this state of full surrender that the longing to obey rises up in us. Think of it: Obedience to God without full surrender is an exercise in robotically following the rules. Surrendering to God without obedience is the equivalent of faith with zero works. (194)

Cynicism at its root is a refusal to believe that God is in control and God is good. Cynicism is interpreting the world and God based on hurt you’ve experienced and the wounds that still lie gaping open. It forces you to look horizontally at people rather than vertically at God. (131)

Far better to focus on what will pull us forward than try to focus on what won’t push us back. That singular thought — I choose to serve — leads to our taking risks on Jesus’s behalf, which leads to our taking our eyes off ourselves and to seeing the needs of others for a change, which leads to our taking action to the glory of God, which leads to our depending more and more on divine strength from our Father, which leads to a deeper longer to worship Him. (197)

We spend a lot of time looking around at others — not so we can encourage them in their growth but so we can figure out how we measure up. We convince ourselves that God wants us to be amazing. We are all about empowerment. But lasting joy will come only when God is in the center; not when I am empowered but when I rest in His power. (153)

Humility says “Not only do I see you, but I choose to elevate your needs above mine.” (161)

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Her — only wants to eat cheese, most of the time walks on her tiptoes, loves playing with the car seat straps, chews on her finger constantly, has the best smile, learning more words and pushing boundaries something serious

Me — not sure what to do with her wild hair, getting creative with God on recharging in moments that aren’t so relaxing, using every minute of nap time for design work and loving it and becoming a bit obsessive with walking our quiet driveway
Some days you wonder how it could be this awesome Some days you wonder how it could be this awesome and other days she keeps trying to eat rocks and you don’t brush your teeth until 3 o’clock. 

Solidarity, parents.
@themasters weekend @themasters weekend
#Repost @allthecounterthings
・・・
(cue ‘I’m So Excited’ by The Pointer Sisters)

One of my biggest giveaways to date!

I believe in @beautycounter, even to gift some GREAT things so that you’ll try them for yourself that they may serve you. 

It’s @themasters Friday, and in my city that means an exciting few days is ahead. 

May it be so with your clean beauty swapping!
(Until April 17th. 😊)

Need suggestions or a guide around the website? Message me or click the link in my bio to take a skincare quiz or to find your right foundation shade or to request samples. 

I’m here to help! And I can’t WAIT to gift someone this box of goodness. 

peep @emeraldoxco amazing coffee
What a joy to spend the morning with the beautiful What a joy to spend the morning with the beautiful @ashtonquattlebaum. 

We knew each other in middle/high school, now we’re adults and because of Beautycounter, reconnecting and working and dreaming together.

HOW. COOL. 

This is my ‘why’ with Beautycounter — the opportunity to cultivate friendships and help and love women where God has them, connected by clean beauty products.
spotting airplanes and sharing goldfish spotting airplanes and sharing goldfish
#Repost @allthecounterthings ・・・ #preachingt #Repost @allthecounterthings
・・・
#preachingtomyself

When you abide in Christ, when you open yourself to His Spirit’s leading and changing, when you trust and obey Him, your whole being can become ministry.

Whatever you do, do it for the glory of God, do it with God, do it and see people as Jesus saw them, with needs and dreams, and love them. 

I have started more endeavors and realized more dreams in the last year then I think in my entire life. Joining @beautycounter was one of them. 

So I encourage you also — 

Take yourself seriously and not too seriously. Work diligently. Dream big. Be faithful. Have fun. Rest on Jesus. Hold it all with open hands. And enjoy it.
Anna when asked if she wants blueberries or to go Anna when asked if she wants blueberries or to go outside. #Easter2021
I love what our pastor said this morning — If it I love what our pastor said this morning — If it was just the cross, we’d be a bunch of forgiven corpses. We have been saved TO something, the richest and fullest of life, in Christ, forever. 

May we be courageous people who know real hope and endurance in the sorrow of life and real gratitude and wonder in the good of it.
Anna’s first Good Friday service at Old Kiokee. Anna’s first Good Friday service at Old Kiokee. Memorable for its distractedness and gratitude over church family and mostly for its Savior. 

What is our hope in life and death?
Christ alone, Christ alone
What is our only confidence?
That our souls to him belong
Who holds our days within his hand?
What comes, apart from his command?
And what will keep us to the end?
The love of Christ, in which we stand
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