Every morning we have the opportunity to build and strengthen our foundation in Christ and our eternal identity. In this episode, I share 3 key principles that have helped me create a heaven-connecting morning routine. This has become a time to connect with God and myself. Filling ourselves with God's love and feeling grounded allows us to show up for the people in our lives with greater love, patience, and presence. Let's fill our cups with God's love so we can share it with the people in our lives for the rest of the day!

Visit https://www.restandabide.com/ to find out all the details of our May 18 Provo Christian Yoga and Meditation Retreat. It will be a beautiful day of gathering, learning of Christ, and creating holy habits of connection (including your morning routine!). I'd love to connect with you there!

The scriptures teach us that God speaks to us in our own language, according to our own understanding.  I think that when we understand the significance that God speaks so individually to us, according to how we will best understand and hear him, it can help us see how personal and intimate our relationship with God can be.  God knows you that perfectly.  God speaks your language.

In this episode, I share how I have come to better hear how God speaks to me through prayer journaling.  This was originally recorded as a bonus class in the 40-day Journey with Christ meditation course I created.  I wanted to share it with you during this busy season when we are celebrating Christ, but it can feel hard to sometimes make enough room for Him in all the hustle.  This will hopefully help you see ways to increase your ability and capacity to hear Him.

I also share about a favorite family tradition of ours, the Bethlehem Dinner.   I created a guide you can download as a free PDF that will walk you through creating a meaningful Christ-centered evening of your own.  It includes ideas for the food, setting, costumes, and most importantly the discussion.  I share the list of scriptures and nativity figures our family uses along with questions for each person participating to ponder beforehand.  You can find it at www.restandabide.com/BethlehemDinner.  

In this conversation with Amy Lamborn, we explore what it looks like in life to receive the Savior's rest.  Things like purposeful prayer and seeking truth from many God-inspired sources are two ways our souls can find and receive rest.

If you're desiring to truly find rest this upcoming year, we will be hosting a Christian yoga and meditation retreat February 6-10 in Hawaii.  We discuss the theme in this episode, Finding Diving Rest, and share a little more of what we'll be learning and practicing together.  For all the details, you can go to www.restandabide.com.  Thanks for joining us!

Finding rest in Jesus Christ is so critical today for our spiritual survival, growth, and joy.  It is here we can receive God's grace and strength to show up in all other places in life the way God created us to. As we quiet our minds and still our souls, we come to experience God's love and see our divine identity clearly.

In this episode, we talk about what finding divine rest means and about our upcoming retreat, a week focused on creating soul-resting rituals to help your 2024 be a year of peace, joy, and purpose. You can learn about the upcoming Christ-centered yoga and meditation retreat, February 6-10 on the Big Island at www.restandabide.com/Hawaii2024Retreat.

Jesus Christ, our Prince of Peace, helps us create peace within our own hearts, our families, and our communities.  Join my conversation with Laura and Joanna about how we've experienced Christ enabling us to feel peace in different life experiences.

You can find out more about the Christ-centered yoga and meditation retreat at https://www.restandabide.com/Hawaii2024Retreat

“Charity is the principal characteristic of a true follower of Jesus Christ.  Charity defines a peacemaker.  When we humble ourselves before God and pray with all the energy of our hearts, God will grant us charity.” (President Russell M. Nelson)

Join me with Laura and Joanna as we talk about being peacemakers through seeing others deeply, listening and communicating with love, and share examples of those who have created peace in hard situations.

Becoming a peacemaker starts within your own heart and mind.  As we experience greater inner peace, we are better able to be patient and create peace in our outer relationships and daily experiences.  This episode includes a ~7-minute Christ-centered, self-compassion meditation.  It provides a guide to creating a kind and loving personal narrative you can use to help process through difficult thoughts, emotions, and experiences to cultivate greater inner peace.  Creating a safe, kind relationship with ourselves allows us to better show up in the other parts of our life aligned with our divine, peacemaking identity. 

Link to Newsletter and free 25 faith-filled affirmations download: https://restandabide.mykajabi.com/pl/2147584305

Join me in this episode as we talk about the powerful ability women have to create peace and that we receive the grace to do so from our Maker.

"Charity, or the pure love of Christ, is motherhood in a very practical and real way...My mother-work will come directly through the whispers of the Holy Spirit. And it is no less real for being unrelated by blood and bone.” (Sharon Eubank)

This “mother work” as Sharon put it, and as we saw in the example of Deborah, is bearing with others and nurturing them in God.  It’s being yourself and holding up your unique light with courage, it’s being a strengthener and encourager, it’s meeting others where they’re.  It’s holding space for another to feel safe being exactly who they are.  It’s forgiving, it’s counseling together, it’s going to places that may be uncomfortable to help another not have to walk alone, it’s speaking the language of faith and hope, it’s wisdom and good judgment,  it’s turning hearts to God.  It’s helping restore freedom and faith and God.  It’s walking with Christ and receiving daily strength to be able to walk with others in difficult circumstances where peace needs to be made.   Mother-work is creating peace.