by carolynpereira1311@hotmail.com | Feb 23, 2022 | Seasonal Reflections
Do you dislike Lent? Does it feel like a season for annoying rules and complaining? Do your good intentions feel somehow unappreciated or worthless? Does your extra prayer or acts of service seem empty, aimless or uncertain? Hatred for Lent seems to be an...
by carolynpereira1311@hotmail.com | Feb 17, 2022 | Discernment, Seasonal Reflections
How can you be sure that your Lenten resolutions this year have you on the right track? Will you be able to accomplish them? How do you gauge if you had a “good” Lent? What is necessary to “have a good Lent”? So, many questions, one simple answer. Let God...
by carolynpereira1311@hotmail.com | Feb 8, 2022 | Christian Goal Setting, Personal Growth, When life is Hard
I guess experience makes me qualified to write about failure. From where I sit, when I look at the grand scheme of all my plans, by all outward appearance at this moment in my life, I am one. I’ve worked for many years to learn all the S.M.A.R.T. things and do all the...
by carolynpereira1311@hotmail.com | Feb 5, 2022 | Personal Growth, Prioritizing your life |
Goals are supposed to be a tool to help us align our actions with our priorities and make us make progress towards what matters to us. Sounds good right? Well, then why do we so often fail at our goals? Or better yet, when we succeed at them, why do they leave us...
by carolynpereira1311@hotmail.com | Jan 3, 2022 | Personal Growth, Relationship with God
Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me; for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. ~ Matthew 11:29 Humility is so “unpopular”. It is literally the opposite of everything we believe to be good as a society right now:...
