• home
    decluttering,  Emotion,  Featured,  Presence,  Self-awareness

    Coming Home to Yourself

    The concept of home is one that is over-romanticized, over-marketed, and even a source of competition. I am not dismissing the need for shelter, quite the contrary. And I love creating a sanctuary from the world and its pressures. But the coziest home ever, following al the best hygge practices will only feel as safe as our own heart. One of our favorite things to decry about today’s society is our endless methods of escaping our external realities. I love to read. Sometimes I binge British television. Sugar and sleep are favorites too. And sometimes I just go blank. The fiction is that we are trying to escape some external…

  • declutter
    clutter,  declutter,  freedom,  images,  Imaginative Prayer,  mind,  prayer,  Self Awareness,  soul,  strongholds

    Declutter Your Soul with Imaginative Prayer

    To declutter one’s mind means understanding what that clutter is. Lies that I believe concerning my reality are one sort of mess. Disturbing images in my mind also clutter my soul on a regular basis.  However, I live in so much more freedom because I learned how to take thoughts captive through imaginative prayer.  I have learned to declutter my soul with Jesus. I first read about this particular prayer exercise in Beth Moore’s book, Breaking Free.  I had recently fasted for three days because my relationship with my boyfriend was going nowhere.  I was a single mom with four girls, and I met a man that I thought was…