by Carolyn Pereira | May 18, 2022 | Personal Growth, Spiritual Fitness, When life is Hard
Intro to the New Life of Grace Series! As I write this I am tired, spent from the demands of another long day. I sit down to refuge in the sound and the texture of my .05 G2 as it softly and smoothly scratches its shiny black ink across the page to let some of the...
by Carolyn Pereira | Mar 1, 2022 | Endurance, Seasonal Reflections, When life is Hard |
Is it even possible to Embrace a Cross? We all have crosses. Maybe they are objectively horrible, or only intolerable to us. But we all suffer and it is always more than we can handle. Matthew 16:24 exhorts: “Take up your cross…” and yet our tendency...
by Carolyn Pereira | Feb 28, 2022 | Seasonal Reflections
What is the real Purpose of Lent? Why do we have this season anyway? Why all the focus on “sacrifice”? Why do we fast? How do we decide what to “give up” or what to do? Why make resolutions anyway? It is true that Lent encourages us to make...
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:...