💗 Are you so busy taking care of everyone else that you've forgotten to take care of YOU?

As women, wives, mothers, grandmothers, caregivers, and business owners, we spend so much of our lives making sure everyone else has what they need. But somewhere along the way, we can lose sight of our own health, happiness, dreams, and well-being.

In Laurie's Lessons #018 — Don't Lose Yourself While Taking Care of Everyone Else, I'm sharing some personal experiences that completely changed the way I look at life, business, family, and taking care of myself.

❤️ Remembering my mother, who passed away far too early, and the lessons her life continues to teach me.

❤️ Raising four children and sometimes forgetting who I was outside of being someone's wife or mother.

❤️ Working as much as 100 hours a week after losing my husband Bryan, building businesses I absolutely LOVED, while believing there was nothing wrong with working that much.

❤️ Meeting my husband Kevin, who helped me learn to slow down, enjoy life, and rediscover the beauty of something as simple as CLOUDS! 😂☁️

❤️ Learning that taking care of yourself isn't selfish. It's part of being able to continue loving and caring for the people God has placed in your life.

Here's something I've learned: You can LOVE everything you're doing and STILL be doing too much.

God has given us beautiful opportunities to serve others, build businesses, raise families, and pursue our dreams. But He's also given us a life to enjoy along the way.

📖 "Come ye yourselves apart into a desert place, and rest a while..." — Mark 6:31 KJV

In this lesson, we'll talk about healthy boundaries, physical and emotional well-being, spiritual rest, finding balance, and remembering that our worth isn't measured by how much we accomplish.

🎀 You can love your family and still need time for yourself.

🎀 You can build a successful business and still close the laptop.

🎀 You can be strong for others and still need support.

🎀 You can serve God faithfully and still make time to rest.

🎀 And sometimes you just need to STOP and look at the clouds! ☁️💗

TODAY'S REFLECTION:

If someone you loved was treating themselves the way you're treating yourself right now, would you be concerned about them?

And what's ONE thing you can do this week to take better care of yourself?

I'd love for you to share in the comments! ❤️

If this lesson encouraged you, please LIKE, SUBSCRIBE, and SHARE it with another woman who might need this reminder.

Remember: Don't lose yourself while taking care of everyone else. You're worth taking care of, too.

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Helping people choose faith in every season of life.

Lesson #016: Don’t Force What God Hasn’t Revealed Yet

I prayed ALL DAY about what I was supposed to teach for this Laurie’s Lesson...and I kept drawing a blank. 😂

I asked God for a topic. Nothing.

I thought of different ideas. Nothing felt right.

And then it hit me...

Maybe THAT was the lesson.

How often do we pray for God's direction—but when the answer doesn't come quickly enough, we start trying to manufacture one ourselves?

We say we're waiting on God, but sometimes we're really giving Him a deadline.

And if He doesn't answer fast enough...

we answer for Him.

In this Laurie’s Lesson, we're talking about learning to wait without forcing doors, manufacturing opportunities, or making decisions simply because uncertainty makes us uncomfortable.

Sometimes faith looks like moving forward.

But sometimes...

Faith looks like being still.

📖 “Be still, and know that I am God...” — Psalm 46:10 (KJV)

Maybe you're waiting for direction about a relationship, career, business, move, opportunity, family decision, or the next chapter of your life.

You don't necessarily need to figure out tomorrow's answer today.

God may be working where you can't see Him yet.

Just like a seed beneath the soil, what looks like “nothing” from above may have roots developing underneath. 🌱

❤️ God's silence does not mean God's absence.

Keep praying.

Keep listening.

Seek wise counsel when needed.

Keep doing what you already know is right.

And give God room to reveal the next step in His timing.

💬 TODAY'S QUESTION:

Have you ever looked back and THANKED GOD that He made you wait for something you desperately wanted at the time?

I'd love to hear your story in the comments. ❤️

📤 And please share this lesson with someone who's struggling because they don't know what comes next.

Maybe they don't need another answer today.

Maybe they simply need permission to trust while they wait.

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Helping people choose faith in every season of life.

Lesson #015: You Never Know the Whole Story Someone Else Was Carrying

Have you ever looked back at a season of life years later and suddenly understood it differently?

As we grow older, we gain something we simply couldn't have had when we were younger: perspective.

We know what we experienced. We remember what we saw. We know how something made us feel.

But we don't always know what another person was carrying behind the scenes.

Maybe they were afraid.
Maybe they were struggling financially.
Maybe they were grieving.
Maybe they were trying to protect someone they loved.
Maybe they were simply doing the best they knew how to do during an incredibly difficult season.

And here's something important:

❤️ Understanding someone else's perspective doesn't require you to erase your own.

Two people can walk through the same season and experience it very differently.

In today's Laurie’s Lesson, we're talking about empathy, perspective, grace, family relationships, forgiveness, and learning to ask a powerful question before judging someone's past choices:

“What might they have been carrying that I never knew about?”

That question doesn't excuse hurtful behavior or erase what happened. It simply makes room for compassion and understanding.

📖 Today’s Scripture — Ephesians 4:2 (KJV)
“With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love;”

Maybe there's someone in your life whose story deserves another look—not necessarily to change what happened, but to understand it through older, wiser, more compassionate eyes.

And maybe you're the person who has been misunderstood.

Remember: God knows the entire story. He knows your intentions, your struggles, your mistakes, your growth, and what you were carrying when nobody else did. ❤️

💬 I'd love to hear from you:
Have you ever gotten older and suddenly understood something your parents, spouse, friend, or someone else did years ago in a completely different way?

📤 Share this with someone who could use a little more grace today.

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