Beauty in Christ

The Joys and Challenges of Being a Christian Single

May 23, 2018 By beautyinchrist 8 Comments

Single. It almost seems like I’m drumming a drum that’s ominous, and nobody quite wants to hear that drum. In a world where most people have a special someone, girlfriend or boyfriend, I’m almost 25 and not married. It’s not that I want to live by myself for ever or live for myself. I don’t actually have a huge desire to be a career woman, although I don’t think that’s necessarily wrong. I’ve just never quite fit into the typical. I love working, but I don’t always love making money. This blog post isn’t about over spiritualizing singleness or saying that marriage is bad, but this is me working through the thoughts, the journey that God has me on right at this moment.

I know. I’m odd.

But that’s beside what I think the Lord wants me to share.

Singlesness is not a bad thing.

I’ve been listening and relistening to 1 Corinthians 7, and these verses have been on my mind a lot these past few weeks.

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Why I’m Finally Really Chilling Out and Resting (Thinking out Loud)

May 17, 2018 By beautyinchrist 6 Comments

Thinking out Loud with Amanda today…

For a while I haven’t really chilled out, but I think it’s time to start that chilling out and truly learning to rest when I need to and not feel guilty about it. I think God has me in a quiet space where I can do that, because I’ve been doing excessive research on hypothalamic amenorrhea, watching videos, and I’ve discovered that stress in any form can have a huge effect on you especially with women and their reproductive systems. This is hard for me to admit, but it feels like I’m giving up a part of myself by chilling out, by not being that tough long distance runner or athlete I thought it was; it’s humbling, but it’s good.

I’m ready. It’s hard in a culture that doesn’t really chill out, and I don’t want to be lazy, but I think that desire to not be lazy often disguises itself by saying, ‘Go, go, go and DON’T STOP.’

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Learning To Protect Your Recovery (Episode #63)

May 15, 2018 By beautyinchrist Leave a Comment

Recovery is tricky. It’s hard. And often, you’re assailed on all sides by diet talk, pressure to do more exercise than you should, pressure to eat something you don’t really want to eat but you feel like you ‘should.’ It’s all a matter of really learning to protect your mental, emotional, spiritual, physical health. The areas in which I really have to watch and protect my recovery are social media, certain conversations, or situations.

This podcast went into depth on how I’ve been learning for especially the past 3 years to be more vigilant to protect my recovery and not blame others for influencing me in a certain way.
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Week In Review: Grieving, Bittersweet, Nourish

May 10, 2018 By beautyinchrist 3 Comments

Grieving. That was a huge part of my family’s life this past week. It was hard. It was bitter but sweet. Why bittersweet? For the past 7.5 weeks, my grandma from my mom’s side lived with my family. She was in Nevada for most of my life, and then God, through so many miraculous opening of doors, brought her here. There was so much joy, uncertainty, and revealing of how SUPER selfish I am when she got here.

The first few weeks she was here with us, I was amazed to think about how I thought I knew how to ‘love’ people, and then God showed me that I didn’t understand just how much God loved me, just how much Jesus gave when He gave His life for me, to take my sins on Him.

I complained. I said it was too hard for me. I struggled those first few weeks, and the Lord gave me SO much freedom.

Grieving. I didn’t realize the grieving would come so soon; I thought my grandma would be here for years, that we would care for her here for years, but I was wrong, and God’s plan is so much better than my expectations.

On Sunday, my grandma passed from this earth.

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Learning To Protect Your Recovery (Episode #63)

Week In Review: Grieving, Bittersweet, Nourish

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