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Dear You,
You choose to thrive right where you are. You could be asking for greener ground, for easier choices, for a spot where the sun always shines. And maybe sometimes you do. But you make it through those moments of wishful thinking and you choose to live, to become, to grow in the place where you’re planted in this season.
I don’t know if you realize how remarkable that choice makes you. In a world of cynicism and discontent, you are rare. And those around you notice. They see your genuine smile and wonder, “Where does that joy come from?” They hear your encouraging words to those around you and ask, “How does she keep her heart open?” They watch you go about your daily life and think, “Maybe there’s hope for me too.”
So in case no one has told you lately, thank you. Thank you for making the choice to show us all how to bloom and bring beauty even when life doesn’t give us everything we want. Thank you for choosing life, love, and laughter when you could have buried your heart to help you feel safe. Thank you for being a woman whose faith reaches up toward the light of One who loves her.
Your life is a display of his grace. A showing of his love. A reminder of his goodness.
Oh, you may blush and wave that away, thinking that your life is ordinary.
You see the grit, but we see the glory.
And it’s extraordinary.
XOXO
(inspired by Ps. 1:1–3; Isa. 61:3; Phil. 4:11–13 and adapted from If We Could Have Coffee…{ebook})
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Welcome to the Coffee for Your Heart weekly link-up!
You’re an encourager so I’m asking you to pour out a little love with your words every Wednesday {link-up goes live at 5:30am CST}. Simply write an encouraging blog post and then share it here with us. If you don’t have a blog, you can still come by holleygerth.com to read the posts and join in too.
If you’d like a writing prompt to get you going, here’s a list I created just for you: 30 Writing Prompts.
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I’m having Coffee For Your Heart with my friend Holley Gerth
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