Live courageously from your heart!
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What do you think about when you hear the word margin? Here are some questions to start the conversation. Is your schedule overloaded? Are you always busy? Is your family slipping away? Are you stressed out all the time?
Check out some of these statistics for people living in the United States (US):
There is a war being waged for the souls of men, for the family, for fatherhood, [fill in the blank]…
Before we rise up and engage in the war being waged, it is essential that we band together with a fellowship of people we trust to join with us in the battle. We see this theme played out in the in the epic battle of good against evil in The Lord of the Rings. The leaders of middle earth meet at Rivendell to strategize on how to destroy the ring and how to defeat Sauron. For good to triumph in middle earth, the ring had to be destroyed by throwing it into the fires of Mount Doom where it was forged.
Our lives are so busy and fast-paced that it’s easy to lose sight of what’s important. Is your life crazy busy? Is your schedule jam packed?
I recently listened to a series by Andy Stanley called “Breathing Room” and wow could I relate. Not having breathing room in my life almost cost me everything.
I was addicted to a high paced lifestyle. I always looked for my value, my self-worth, and my identity with position and success — selling my soul to my work.
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Join Tony Marino, Lynn Kennedy, Pastor Brian Whiteside, Pastor Michael Duncan and Pastor Dr. Jeff Klick and me (Tim Young) their special guest on Alive In Christ Radio as we talk about my book Heartstone: A Journey out of the midnight of my soul!
Dad’s pause and take an inventory of your life. Are you fully present for your family/kids, or are you too wrapped up in your career, hobby, friends, fill in the blank_____? Are you actively living out a Godly example for them…and would God agree?
Dad’s does this describe you?
* Interview starts about 28mins into the broadcast.
We have bought into a culture that demands an instant fix and that convinces us that our way is the best way! Over time, this becomes an automatic response, like breathing, and we blindly strive to satisfy this intense, cultural lie. This striving robbed me of my ability to rest and enjoy life’s moments, and for much of my life, I struggled with this. No matter what I did or where I went, something would entangle me and pull me into restlessness. I would later learn through months of counseling that I was stuck in a pattern of trying to fix the relationship between my mom and my dad, a kid still believing that somehow I could still fix it. This pattern became so embedded in my psyche that I convinced myself that if I couldn’t fix their relationship, it somehow made me a failure. God will never give up on us because He loves us—we are the ones who give up on Him! I’m glad I didn’t give up.
