Deana Farrell

Encouragement for your faith, life & business

Our lives are colored with choice, perspective and experience

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I believe that God is a God of order, purpose and immense and intense love. I also believe that He knows us the best and what is best for us.

After all, He created us on purpose and for a specific purpose.

Do I really believe this? Absolutely! Do I live in the confidence of this knowledge in my daily life? Nope.

Why is that? Why is it such a long journey from my brain to my heart? 

Choice, Perspective and Experience.

We have the ability to choose our thoughts. We can see the glass as half empty or half full. And our experiences are the typical reason behind our choices and our perspectives.

Nothing is random, left to chance or just “happens out of nowhere”.  If that were the case, I picture a world looking like the movie Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs!

There is most definitely cause and effect. Those causes come from choices (somewhere/someone) and the effects of those can cause great discovery, new circumstances and even unwanted consequences…depending on the perspective. These have and will continue to be what drives our experiences.

All of these above thoughts came after one of my morning devotional times. You see, each morning I spend about an hour or so reading, reflecting and writing my thoughts sparked by Bible passages and various daily biblical devotionals.

This particular morning after reading something (I honestly do not remember what) I immediately had the picture in my mind of a coloring page. Weird, I know, but hang with me.

I saw each of our lives as a beautiful picture that God had specifically designed for us. Each one was intricate, with a lot of detail.

However, there was no color. The picture was black and white. 

We were each respectfully made with wonder and with great care.

Loved enough to be given a beautiful outline of what our lives could look like if we took the time to make wise choices, have a bigger perspective and learn from our experiences.

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I don’t know about you, but this perspective helped me “see” my life a bit differently. I have a lot of color and creativity in me and a big picture still to be filled in – how about you?

Let’s be conscious of our choices, have bigger perspectives and understand that our experiences are all just part of the color of our lives – beautiful once it’s all seen in context.

Working to embrace the picture I was given and creatively color it right there with ya,

P.S. I also believe in Prioritized Focus you can read about that here and will be opening up the bootcamp very soon! (get on the email list if you want to know when!)

 

Your Message is your Mess-terpiece

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Our life’s message is to show others we can be a hot mess on the way to pursuing our life’s masterpiece.

We are “mess-terpieces” that make progress to our masterpieces, piece by piece! 

The sooner we realize this, the more of the other kind of peace we find for ourselves.

Last week I shared about the “mess we find ourselves in” and how to get out. Well, apparently that message resonated because I heard from many of you that you were inspired to “address your mess” and R.E.A.D.Y to get out!

So often we are led to believe that transparency, even to OURSELVES, means that you need to prove your victim-hood. When really, it only proves that Making Excuses Sabotages our Success. Now let me clarify about victim-hood. There’s a distinct difference between a victim mentality, as I’m referring here and having been an actual victim of something. 

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Learn to embrace your life’s message.

Your MESSage is all about:

  • the messes you’ve been through
  • the mistakes you’ve made and learned from
  • the mishaps that happened and even the one’s we’ve managed to avoid. (or repeat!) 

When we can learn to step outside of our expectations as it relates to whatever it is we are going through, it will not only help us grow through it, but it may just change our perspective.

I know for me, it’s easy to “judge” someone from the outside until…you find yourself or someone close to you in a similar situation or circumstance that’s the very same you were “judging”. Then what happens? Your perspective changes.

Because of an event that happened in our family nearly 6 months ago, I’ve had a huge perspective shift on something that I thought I was very set in believing. Since beginning to share our story with others it has not only helped us heal, but brought us and others so much encouragement. 

Friends, if you get nothing else out of this post today, please hear this, our message (emphasis on mess) is meant to help change someone’s future for the better.

Think about that for a moment. How can your “mess-terpiece” lessons help someone on the way to piecing together their masterpiece? 

Finding peace in the midst of my “mess-terpiece” message piece by piece right there with ya,

Has your life’s “mess-terpiece” helped someone piece together part of their masterpiece?
Are you having trouble with some pieces right now? Maybe I can help – schedule a time we can chat here