Just imagine what might happen if the words we say breathed life, ignited hearts, and amplified hope when they were overheard! If what came out of our mouths was laced in humility and grounded in our God-identity. If our words repaired breaches and lent hope and lit a candle for someone else.

Someone listening over our shoulder, curious how to trust God when life doesn’t make sense.

Someone observing at a distance how we become the hands and feet of the Lord we say we love.

Someone with doubts and no idea what to do with them.

Someone who feels unlovable.

Someone misunderstood.

Someone keeping it together on the outside but crumbling inside.

Someone made the brunt of a bad joke.

Someone serving selflessly and feeling unseen.

Someone with questions that hollow and a soul-ache that persists.

Links mentioned:

1. To get a short, doable tip in your inbox every week to help you get to know your neighbors, sign up here.

2. Read the written version of this episode HERE.

3. Proverbs 4:23, ESV

4. Philippians 4:8, The Voice

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We get both–the imposter syndrome and the subtly-inflating self-impression. We shame and doubt ourselves, wondering who we are to think God can use us for His grand purpose. And we’re also guilty of esteeming ourselves too highly, as if our value has anything to do with us and not the One who breathed undeserved worth into our lungs just because He loves us so.

Links mentioned:

1. To get a short, doable tip in your inbox every week to help you get to know your neighbors, sign up here.

2. Read the written version of this episode HERE.

3. Loved to Life by Ann Voskamp.

4. Get a FREE Names of God Phone Wallpaper HERE.

What if we let go of the “metrics-based growth” Jennifer Dukes Lee cautions will “[hurry] our hearts,” and lean instead into the two heart cultivators Jesus offers?

Links mentioned:

1. To get a short, doable tip in your inbox every week to help you get to know your neighbors, sign up here.

2. Read the written version of this episode HERE.

3. Jennifer Dukes Lee's books.

4. Get a FREE Names of God Phone Wallpaper HERE.