Lauren Mitchell
Put Your Pencils Down
God isn’t like me. He doesn’t have tunnel vision for what I get wrong. He can assess not focus solely on what needs improvement.
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Lauren Mitchell
- Jan 16
- 2 min
What We Choose
Why do I choose other peoples words and allow them to speak over me more than I choose God’s words?
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Lauren Mitchell
- Dec 19, 2022
- 2 min
Enlarged in the Waiting
Waiting creates space. It creates stillness. Outside things stop, lesser things are pushed aside. We can either fill this space in our...
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Lauren Mitchell
- Sep 19, 2022
- 2 min
Time is Not On Our Side
We have twenty-four hours in a day... that’s it. We never get twenty-five. Sixty minutes in every hour of our lives. No matter how hard...
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Lauren Mitchell
- Aug 8, 2022
- 2 min
With All My Heart
I always feel like I need to figure things out. My brain rarely stops calculating and planning. I waste so much energy trying to...
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Lauren Mitchell
- Jul 29, 2022
- 1 min
Fading Fast
Summer is fading and I’m desperate to make her last. My Enneagram one self, even though I try not to show her that much in public, feels...
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Lauren Mitchell
- May 11, 2022
- 2 min
Less and More
Less thinking and more thanking. I wrote this on my bathroom mirror. It's a safeguard for my mind this week.
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Lauren Mitchell
- Nov 29, 2021
- 2 min
Flowing
Abundance isn’t about my provision. It’s a shift from a mindset of earning or deserving to a mindset of believing and receiving.
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Lauren Mitchell
- Nov 12, 2021
- 2 min
Blurry
The times I seem to need this most are the ones I don’t stop to do it. I just put my head down and try to fight through the blurry.
Why??
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Lauren Mitchell
- Oct 29, 2021
- 2 min
Hold the Pumpkin; I'm just spicy.
What are you doing because it's expected? How are you letting culture push you around and tell you that valuable means loud and obvious?
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Lauren Mitchell
- Sep 24, 2021
- 3 min
P is for Pumpkin...and prayer...and a couple other things
Pray helps when desperately need perspective. I can get severe tunnel vision. When I start to fixate on things, prayer moves me forward.
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Lauren Mitchell
- Jun 11, 2021
- 2 min
He Said Practice Not Perfect
You know when you read a really familiar passage of scripture and see something you’ve seen a hundred times, but a new word jumps out at...
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Lauren Mitchell
- Dec 28, 2020
- 3 min
Connecting the Dots
I seem to always measure my day in tangible things I got done, but that's not how God measures my day.
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Lauren Mitchell
- Nov 8, 2020
- 3 min
The Grace We Are Given
“There’s not much hope for a person who won’t live in the grace he’s given.”
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Lauren Mitchell
- Oct 29, 2020
- 4 min
Nothing is Okay
... but my flowers aren't really rattled. they don't seem to understand what is going on, or
maybe they actually remember who is in charge
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Lauren Mitchell
- Aug 27, 2020
- 2 min
Slow It Down
I did. I said ‘slow it down” because I know that if we don’t learn what we need to learn in 2020, then we’re not really moving on in 2021.
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Lauren Mitchell
- Aug 10, 2020
- 3 min
Keep Watering
It’s time to water our faith. At this moment, 2020 feels long, waiting seems forever. I need to water my faith with expectation.
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Lauren Mitchell
- Jul 28, 2020
- 3 min
The Light Shines in the Darkness, and the Darkness Has Not Overcome It.
Whether you believe in spiritual forces of evil or not doesn’t stop them. The Bible is very clear that they are working against us, they...
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Lauren Mitchell
- Apr 22, 2020
- 3 min
Crawl Before We Walk
We are crawling our way back to civilization. Our Governor has re-opened Hair salons. I know there is about to be a stampede!
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Lauren Mitchell
- Apr 6, 2020
- 2 min
Sink In
Nature is waking up all around us. God’s timing this perfectly. Promise is coming, it’s undetected yet, but it’s coming. Just like...
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