Untangled Blog
The concept for the Untangled Blog came about in an unexpected manner. One day I accidentally knocked over my necklace holder, and as a result, two of my necklaces became tangled together. It was a slow, tedious process to separate them. As I worked through the process, it occurred to me how these necklaces represented our lives.
When untangled, the necklaces were each a thing of beauty to be worn and displayed. However, in their tangled condition, their beauty was obscured among a myriad of twists and knots. If left in that state, they would be unable to be worn, unable to serve their intended purpose.
So it is with our lives when we get tangled up in our emotions and our circumstances. We can get all twisted and knotted up inside, unable to display our beauty to others. We can feel useless and become ineffective, unable to function the way we were intended. We can lose our purpose.
We aren’t meant to live this way, and the good news is that we don’t have to. We have a choice in the matter. I invite you to join me on this journey to examine how we can rise up out of the muck and mire of our daily circumstances to live a life filled with joy and purpose … a life Untangled.
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Red Light Days
Do you ever have the kind of day where everything just seems to go wrong? Or how about the opposite, a day where everything seems to fall into place? I call these “Red Light” and “Green Light” days –
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Great Expectations
In my blog posts last month, I discussed how we can get caught up in pleasing others and meeting other people’s expectations. We can also get caught up in the expectations we place on ourselves.
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A Matter of Pride
This month I’ve been writing about how we are to look to God instead of people for acceptance and approval and how we can experience a life of purpose and freedom when we seek to please God. One thing that can really get in the way of this is our pride.
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What Will People Think?
I’m sure you’ve heard the phrase, “What will people think?” Perhaps you’ve even uttered the phrase yourself. It can be easy to get caught up in appearances, and we may not even realize that it’s happening.
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Breaking Free
For my first post, I want to expand on the scenario of the tangled necklaces that I described on my Untangled Blog landing page. As I worked through the tedious process of separating my necklaces that day, several things came to mind, one of which is the concept of breaking free.
