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It was 65° in our house this morning and now it’s 77° outside, so fall is definitely here in the ATL. 🙃

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Not gonna lie—last week was a weird one. You know, where every day feels like a Monday and the to-do list piles up and you take a nap on the floor in your office (definitely happened 🙈)? Not my favorite.

But today, I'm grateful for the sunshine and blue skies (literally) and the clean slate that Mondays bring. Here's to a week of staying focused and faithful to the things that really matter, friends! 📷: @l.landers

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Did ever such love and sorrow meet? Or thorns compose so rich a crown?
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Oh the wonderful Cross, bids me come and die and find that I may truly live.
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Overwhelmingly grateful for the pain and suffering Jesus went through so that I could live eternally with Him and in the freedom of the cross!

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When I was in high school, people told me that the professional world runs on emails. I didn't realize how true that really was until I started working--my job description should have been "email answerer." 😬

Even though the unfortunate reality of the real world DOES involve emails, it doesn't have to be unorganized chaos! If you'd like to get more organized in your inbox, today's blog post is for you! I'm talking all about email organization so that you don't loose (or delete!) important emails, you can find what you need, and you won't dread your inbox each day! 🙌🏼 Link is in my bio if you're interested! ☺️ Tell me: are you an ”inbox 0” kinda person or do you keep all your emails right where you can see ‘em?

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It was 65° in our house this morning and now it’s 77° outside, so fall is definitely here in the ATL. 🙃

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Not gonna lie—last week was a weird one. You know, where every day feels like a Monday and the to-do list piles up and you take a nap on the floor in your office (definitely happened 🙈)? Not my favorite.

But today, I'm grateful for the sunshine and blue skies (literally) and the clean slate that Mondays bring. Here's to a week of staying focused and faithful to the things that really matter, friends! 📷: @l.landers

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Did ever such love and sorrow meet? Or thorns compose so rich a crown?
//
Oh the wonderful Cross, bids me come and die and find that I may truly live.
//
Overwhelmingly grateful for the pain and suffering Jesus went through so that I could live eternally with Him and in the freedom of the cross!

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When I was in high school, people told me that the professional world runs on emails. I didn't realize how true that really was until I started working--my job description should have been "email answerer." 😬

Even though the unfortunate reality of the real world DOES involve emails, it doesn't have to be unorganized chaos! If you'd like to get more organized in your inbox, today's blog post is for you! I'm talking all about email organization so that you don't loose (or delete!) important emails, you can find what you need, and you won't dread your inbox each day! 🙌🏼 Link is in my bio if you're interested! ☺️ Tell me: are you an ”inbox 0” kinda person or do you keep all your emails right where you can see ‘em?

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Recently, one of my violin students was struggling with a somewhat difficult chord. In lessons, she joked that it scared her.
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So I told her to play it as terribly as she could.
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She laughed sheepishly, then played the chord. (In her defense, I don’t think I’ve ever asked a student to purposefully sound bad before. 😉) “You can play worse than that. I want it to be awful,” I told her. She played again and it was worse, but not worse enough. I told her to do it again, and she finally looked at me and said, “I don’t want to.”
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But that was the problem. She was too scared of messing up that she wasn’t able to play well. I wasn’t going to let her give up that easily, so I made her play the chord several more times—each worse than the last. Finally, it was bad enough. Next, I told her to play it well, and on the FIRST TRY, it sounded pretty good. Not perfect, but it was something we could work with. By the end of the lesson, she was nailing the chord more times than she wasn’t.
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She was finally free of the fear of imperfection and was able to approach the problem clearly, with courage, because she HAD played it worse. It DID sound terrible. And it could ONLY get better from there.
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I’ve thought about that a lot. How often are we too afraid to do something because we might mess up? Too afraid to make against-the-grain business decisions because we’re afraid that it will flop? Too afraid to step into what Jesus is calling us to do because we’re worried that we don’t have it all figured out? What would happen if we met fear front on—FAILED, even—and then kept going, because it could only get better from there? In order to get better at something, we have to change the way we’re going about it. Maybe we need to let ourselves be bad first and know we won’t stay there.

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“Cease striving and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth.”
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Psalm 46:10 has been on my heart lately and I just wanted to share. Happy Monday, friends! My prayer is that we will be still—cease striving—and know that He is God, so we don’t have to be.

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