Grateful and Intentional: Home for the Holidays
By: Kristen Neighbarger Published on: 27/12/2023It’s hard to wrap my head around the fact that this is my last blog post of 2023. Russ and I have spent all of December talking about how quickly this year flew by–I feel like we said that at the beginning of each new month, a collective: where did this month go? We’re gearing up for 2024, and it’s going to be a BIG year around here. I’m working on my manuscript and hope to have it to my publisher in the next month. Then, I have to brace myself for the joy commonly referred to as editing and revising before the excitement of launching my book baby into the world. It’s going to be a wild ride for sure. I’ve never had a “word of the year” before this year, and in true Kristen fashion, I couldn’t land on just one word, so I had two: balance and focus. Those were good for me. When I found myself feeling a little off-kilter or overcommitting, those words would find their way back into my brain, and I would feel myself calming and settling.
(IM)Perfect: The Ungrateful Heart
By: Kristen Neighbarger Published on: 22/03/2023It was tough. Did you know Moses spends the first nine chapters of Deuteronomy preaching at the Israelites over and over and over again to not turn their backs on God when they finally enter the Promised Land after wandering around in the wilderness for 4 years? Nine chapters. That tells me one of two things–either they were really stubborn or Moses didn’t have anything else to say. I’m pretty confident it isn’t that Moses was running out of things to say. No, it was definitely because the Israelites were stubborn, and, as Dr. Phil would say, the best predictor of future behavior is past behavior. The Israelites had some notorious past behavior.
