March 19, 2025

Your Prayer Was Answered

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You just didn’t like what it required.

When you pray for a deep love, you call forward all that needs to be healed in order to receive and hold that love.

What you think is “not fair” or “bad luck” is your curriculum to be able to get to the place where you are a match for what you dream of.

Great love has nothing to do with luck, and everything to do with saying “yes” over and over again to life’s invitations for you to grow and change.

If you don’t change your choices in relationships, life, and how you navigate conflict and conversations, literally nothing in your life will change.

Why? Because if you stay the same, so does your life and its relational outcomes.

And if you think, “But I keep getting lessons!”

First off, the lessons never stop. So getting lessons and challenges isn’t evidence of failure, it’s evidence you’re alive.

Secondly, life only repeats lessons for those who don’t learn from them.

So, that leads to the very direct question: Which lessons are you avoiding confronting? What would learning that lesson ask of you? And what are you afraid to lose that this lesson is inviting you to loosen your grip on?

You know. Your expansion can’t hide from your excuses.

Here’s a hard reality I had to face (over and over again… haha):

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