Category: Encouragement
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Making Deposits…A Life Tip For Growing Things
By Lisa S. Tarno So I’m doing the do. I’m getting out there in a new place and meeting people. As well, my husband and my strategy in this new place is the fire-hydrant-approach to meeting people. We are getting involved in a lot of things to put ourselves out there socially, spiritually and athletically.…
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Small Talk…Blah, Blah Blah
By Lisa S. Tarno Am I alone in this feeling? I just do not like small talk. It seems forced, fake, and very uncomfortable. It happens at events, dinner parties, corporate parties and social settings where the main event either hasn’t begun or has just finished. Unless you find the right person that you instantly…
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Alone In The Crowd
By Lisa S. Tarno I’m thinking of a recent conversation I had with someone regarding whether or not I would attend an upcoming women’s event at our new church. I love the idea of it, but honestly said that it was intimidating as a new person, because nothing so aptly exploits all that I do not…
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Comfort Is The Enemy
By Lisa S. Tarno “Get busy living or get busy dying…..” ~ Shawshank Redemption movie “Take the first problem and solve it and then move on to the next…”~The Martian movie These two movies inspired me. They showed the tenacity of the human spirit and the essence of thriving in the midst of adversity. Who…
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This Time Is Different…
By Lisa S. Tarno I recently shared about a time in my thirties when friends were moving away left and right and even though I had three kids and a husband, I felt the sting of loneliness. I remember as I struggled through that time talking with God about the ridiculousness of the coincidence of…
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Resilience
By Lisa S. Tarno I was greeted by a beautiful surprise this morning in my backyard, a blossom on my Argentine Toothpick Cactus. I made sure to take a photo. This picture is one of many that perfectly illustrate resilience. The beautiful blossom bloomed in the very midst of needles on the cactus. I read…
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Do You Have The Infrastructure For Health And Vitality?
By Lisa S. Tarno I love when an author says something that hits me between the eyes. Susie Larson did it again within her book, “Fully Alive”. God had revealed to her in her times of praying for healing that if He healed her today, she’d lose it the next day because as He impressed…
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What We Rehearse, We Remember…
By Lisa S. Tarno I’m reading Susie Larson’s “Fully Alive” book/study and in the life reflection part she writes, “What we rehearse we remember, and what we remember we live from. She goes on to ask “What core belief stands in the way of your flourishing?” There are so many directions this answer can take.…
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Can We Forgive Someone And Still Feel Disgust For Them?
By Lisa S. Tarno The question within the question would be does the feeling of loathing, extreme dislike, or disgust negate the reality of actually forgiving someone? Some may legalistically say that our feelings would betray us and we never truly forgave….is that true? Some may say that our feelings are our feelings absent of…
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We’re All Just One Hormone Away From…
By Lisa S. Tarno Have you ever heard the saying, “But for the grace of God, there go I…”? Fun Fact, believe it or not it is not found in the Bible. It’s actually attributed to a man named John Bradford in 1553 who apparently said it after seeing criminals on their way to being…
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