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St. Luke's ELCA
- Oct 10, 2020
- 2 min
Day 9 - Challenging Negative Thinking | 10 for 10 | Daily Inspiration - October 10
I have always been a positive person. I don’t know why. I just always have. I guess it is a personality trait. It never felt like it was something I had to work at, it came naturally. My high school football coach said, “Preston is so positive, that if he was traveling in a plane that was going down, he would say, ‘maybe we’ll land in a tree!’” (I am an optimist as well). What I have learned over the years though is that while I am a positive person, that doesn’t make it imp
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St. Luke's ELCA
- Oct 9, 2020
- 2 min
Day 8 - Self Care | 10 for 10 | Daily Inspiration - October 9
I’ve never been one to practice self compassion. I live and die by the belief of kindness towards others, but the idea of holding myself to that same standard? Never. As an incredibly extroverted person, the isolation and lack of physical contact with others has manifested some new challenges for me. At first glance, I was infuriated with myself. How could I let all my goals and plans fizzle out just because of a silly virus? I kept telling myself I needed to do more, and do
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St. Luke's ELCA
- Oct 8, 2020
- 2 min
Day 7 - Mindfulness | 10 for 10 | Daily Inspiration - October 8
“Mindfulness is a way of befriending ourselves and our experience.” Jon Kabart-Zinn Over the years I have done a lot of driving to arrive at my place of work, spend time with family and friends or see the breathtaking United States. Often during those drives, I find myself deep in thought and suddenly wondering, “How did I get here?” This is the opposite of the mindfulness we are called to today as we strengthen our mental wellbeing. Mindfulness requires that we are prese
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St. Luke's ELCA
- Oct 7, 2020
- 2 min
Day 6 - Service | 10 for 10 | Daily Inspiration - October 7
Serve to Discover Abundance The Radical Shift from “me to we.” St. Luke’s takes seriously the tag-line, “The Good Neighbor Church.” We often add to that statement, “A Servant Church,” all used to reinforce St. Luke’s rootedness in our Christian faith commitment. Literally hundreds of you have recognized and owned this and have already discovered the abundance which comes from serving others. They are not just tag-lines they are reality! Sometimes we may not consciously realiz
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St. Luke's ELCA
- Oct 6, 2020
- 2 min
Day 5 - Self Care | 10 for 10 | Daily Inspiration - October 6
Sometimes, the hardest thing in the world is to take some deep breaths and realize that our next breath in is a gift from God. We get so caught up into what we are doing, what we are thinking, what others think about us, and what even what we should do for others, that we forget to take care of the self God gave us. I have seen it so many times in ministry. People who are unhealthy and at risk themselves caring for their loved ones, and forgetting that they also need to take
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St. Luke's ELCA
- Oct 5, 2020
- 2 min
Day 4 - Physical Wellness | 10 for 10 | Daily Inspiration - October 5
She sets about her work vigorously; her arms are strong for her tasks.
Proverbs 31:17 I have a bit of a workout addiction. I love variety: swimming, running, cycling, lifting, bodyweight workouts, and yoga all fill my schedule. These workouts are equal parts physical and mental wellness. My mental health always improves with regularly exercise. When I’m grumpy, my husband will often ask if I need to eat something or go for a run…either are likely to alleviate my mood. Lack of
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St. Luke's ELCA
- Oct 4, 2020
- 2 min
Day 3 - Positive Thinking | 10 for 10 | Daily Inspiration - October 4
“He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and there will be no more death or sorrow or crying or pain. All these things are gone forever.” -Revelations 21:4 How do we do hard things? When you start some things in life, you sometimes have that question of ‘How am I going to do this?’. It may be, how are you going to ask a person you like to dinner for the first time or apply for a promotion at work or maybe even just get through the day. We have to embrace the framework i
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St. Luke's ELCA
- Oct 3, 2020
- 1 min
Day 2 - Share Your Story | 10 for 10 | Daily Inspiration - October 3
"I'm a little pencil in the hands of a writing God, who is sending a love letter to the world." ~Mother Theresa God has given us all a story to tell. Some chapters may be complicated and raw. Some chapters may be hopeful and inspiring. Many may fall in the spaces in between. Sharing our story with someone(s) who has earned the privilege of hearing it can provide the illumination that will help banish the shadows that thrive in the corners and add luster to the parts that
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St. Luke's ELCA
- Oct 2, 2020
- 2 min
Day 1 - Relationships | 10 for 10 | Daily Inspiration - October 2
In helping Middleton recover from the 2018 flood, the first thing I learned is that everything is connected. Things that had been designed never to break, broke. And some of the things that didn’t fail came awfully close – things like dams, and bridges, and our drinking water system. In the past six months, we’ve lived through changes that we couldn’t possibly have imagined last Christmas – things like virtual school, and deserted city streets, and wearing masks, and healt
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St. Luke's ELCA
- Aug 7, 2020
- 2 min
Daily Inspiration - August 7: Healer of our Every Ill
“Healer of Our Every Ill” by Marty Haugen (GIA Publications, 1987) gained a following with ELCA Lutherans in With One Voice (1995) and in the “Healing” section of Evangelical Lutheran Worship. But it wasn’t until after 9/11/2001 that the hymn took off as an identified source of inspiration and healing for us in hard times. The background story for its composition helps to tell us why. In an online article on its history in “Discipleship Ministries of the United Methodist Chur
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