Category: Encouragement
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To Compartmentalize Or Not To?
To Compartmentalize Or Not To Compartmentalize? That Is The Question… By Lisa S. Tarno To compartmentalize is the ability to mentally separate or set aside one’s negative emotions. It’s a strategy that I currently am employing. If you have read my other blog articles, there is a reoccurring theme of family discord that elicits sadness and…
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Changing The Narrative…
By Lisa S. Tarno Do you ever hear how you are answering someone’s question and think even as you are speaking, “I’m depressing myself over this answer!” ? How do we script our lives better to answer questions about things we’d rather not talk about? I mean, we do want to be honest, but honestly,…
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When Others Suffer, Let My Words Be Few!
By Lisa S. Tarno I am reading now about the life of Job. What’s amazing about this God fearing man is found in the very first chapter when calamity is thrust upon him with his first four messengers of doom, Job’s response was to still praise God and have the wherewithal to keep a good…
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Remember This…
By Lisa S. Tarno I’m reading the fascinating story of Genesis again. My favorite out of the book is Joseph’s story. I’m drawn to the stories of people with great resilience and overcoming ridiculous odds. Joseph was one such story! It’s coming to a close and I was focusing on his relationship with his father,…
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As We Wait…
By Lisa S. Tarno I have written about waiting rooms before. It seems that most of our lives in totality are in waiting rooms when it comes right down to it. We’d best be getting good at learning to wait well. Waiting is challenging when we are expecting something good, bad or unknown. I’ve experienced…
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MYOB
By Lisa S. Tarno When I write or speak or teach, I am transparent and as real as possible. I shared with a class last fall that to mitigate unwanted feelings of comparison, a trap I feel the enemy uses quite well, I was going to limit my time on social media especially during the…
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A Word From The Word
By Lisa S. Tarno It’s been a year! How do I mean that? Good? Bad? In totality both. I have been hyper focused on health and injury stuff because I’ve had to be. Normally, I am a go-to-the-doctor-once-a-year for the free physical but this year has been excessive for me with alarm bells going off…
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Dealing With Our Grief By Finding Hope In God
By Lisa S. Tarno Getting the news that she died last week sent shock waves through our mom community! My initial response was visceral and I let out an audible cry of disbelief! I had been praying for (her) and especially with her emergency surgery. I looked back at our text messages and the prayers…
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The Best Beauty Secret
By Lisa S. Tarno “When Moses came down from Mount Sinai carrying two stone tablets inscribed with the terms of the covenant, he didn’t know that the skin of his face glowed [had become radiant] [shining with a unique radiance] because he had been speaking with God.” Exodus 34:29 NLT, AMP & MSG translations I will…
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The Waiting Room Part 2
By Lisa S.Tarno Let’s face it, most of our lives is spent waiting: in traffic, for appointments, windows of time, in lines at amusement parks, in lines to eat or buy food, at the airport, after an event in the parking lot, trying to get pregnant, nine months of pregnancy, on our kids to get…
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