Happy birthday Kandis! I can’t say I’ve read or followed every one of your bday blogs, but this one for some odd reason (that is being slowly revealed at 5:42am) stood out to me. I have been truly struggling with laying down - laying aside the weights especially in waiting! I will be closer to 50 this year and would love for my life to look different. However, it could but I have to lay aside these ancient weights, habits, mindsets that I have been carrying for years. I lay them down one day or even one week, and just like that I pick them up again. It feels attached. But God I know loves me and is helping me to work through the pride of carrying what I must leave at the feet of Jesus. So I will say this… thank you. This post and your obedience to write this has been for me another wake up call and another chance to lay aside the weights that have been my crutch to truly having the life the father desires for me to have. It’s confirmation…again. Happy 40th! Enjoy the gifts He presents to you today! Bless you.
I love reading your reflections each year. I’m gonna sit with this question and do my own reflecting: “Have you ever lived with a thing so long, you stop even noticing it’s there?” I immediately thought about my own scars and habits that have become so engrained and part of me that I may not have questioned or considered. Thanks for sharing each year and happy birthday!! Such a blessing to see 40 years of life.
Happy birthday Kandis! I can’t say I’ve read or followed every one of your bday blogs, but this one for some odd reason (that is being slowly revealed at 5:42am) stood out to me. I have been truly struggling with laying down - laying aside the weights especially in waiting! I will be closer to 50 this year and would love for my life to look different. However, it could but I have to lay aside these ancient weights, habits, mindsets that I have been carrying for years. I lay them down one day or even one week, and just like that I pick them up again. It feels attached. But God I know loves me and is helping me to work through the pride of carrying what I must leave at the feet of Jesus. So I will say this… thank you. This post and your obedience to write this has been for me another wake up call and another chance to lay aside the weights that have been my crutch to truly having the life the father desires for me to have. It’s confirmation…again. Happy 40th! Enjoy the gifts He presents to you today! Bless you.
I love reading your reflections each year. I’m gonna sit with this question and do my own reflecting: “Have you ever lived with a thing so long, you stop even noticing it’s there?” I immediately thought about my own scars and habits that have become so engrained and part of me that I may not have questioned or considered. Thanks for sharing each year and happy birthday!! Such a blessing to see 40 years of life.