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Table Mentoring: Blessed to Be a Blessing

admin — Sat, 09 Sep 2017 06:26:09 +0000

As a young mom with babies and dishes, laundry piles growing and lots of dreams for what lay beyond, I’ll always remember a woman in my church approaching me with an idea that surprised me. She wanted me to teach and encourage her teen daughter, and she wanted her daughter to grow a heart for serving others, and a mindset of learning from a woman a few steps ahead of her on life’s path. My church friend proposed sending her daughter and a friend to my home one day a week. During that day, the girls would help however I needed; they could change diapers, wash dishes or fold laundry, play with toddlers or whatever I could come up with. In exchange, I’d spend part of that time encouraging these two friends. We could do a formal Bible study or just spend time talking and praying together. Honestly, I was surprised and humbled (really, more like awed and a little terrified). Here was a woman I respected, willing to trust me with offering wisdom to her daughter at a crucial time in her life. I wasn’t long married and much of my day in that season involved helping my husband […]

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Five Essentials Steps for Real Life Change (Guest Post)

Angela Sackett — Fri, 20 Jan 2017 06:19:33 +0000

If you follow me on Facebook, hopefully you were able to join in Winter: A Journey of Stillness. Together, we took ten days to start the new year by quieting our hearts and listening for what God had to say to us about our new year. You may have felt a prompt to make some life changes, and if so, my friend Elisa’s thoughts for us today will be right on point. Five Essentials Steps for Real Life Change (Guest Post by Elisa Pulliam) Do you know what the secret is to experiencing real life change? Oh, yes, there’s a secret. It’s not a magic pill. Nor is it something that you should hire someone to accomplish for you, although that would be ideal. It’s not even something that you can demand of God, although submitting to Him will make the process a whole lot easier. The secret to real life change begins with the “ah-ha.” What’s an “ah-ha”? As I learned through my life coaching training, and have come to see time and time again in my own life along with working with clients, the secret to real life change happens when we we reach the magical “ah-ha” moment. […]

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Legacy Leaving | Intentional Grandparenting

Angela Sackett — Mon, 21 Nov 2016 08:25:26 +0000

Their hands rest side-by-side as they chat over my mama’s life story. Gently, she fingers each charm of the bracelet she’s had for decades, and she tells of each memory represented by a small charm, determined to pass these along and leave a legacy, this portion through the trusted heart of her only granddaughter. My girl listens intently, jotting notes in her scrolled but neat handwriting, precisely documenting so she won’t forget. This act of legacy leaving is intentional grandparenting, and more, it’s intentional relationship that is a gift to each one of us. As I watch from the adjoining room, I’m ever-so-grateful for the gift that is memory, the intentional way in which my mom uses pockets of time to instill in her grandkids the story of the past, so they can carry it to the future. I’m thinking of the moments we’ve made together, the spoiling I’ve had in friendships with older women than me. It’s bittersweet to realize there are moments lost, but it renews my commitment to foster friendships with those in my season and those well before me, to share what I’m learning with those who are yet to walk the paths I have walked. […]

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