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Rejection = Cut them off … IMMEDIATELY! How toxic is that right? That’s exactly what the Lord told me I have a tendency to do. Whenever someone rejects me, I immediately cut them off. I’m talking about deleting phone numbers, unfollowing on social media, and sometimes I’ll keep following them but just mute their stories and posts. That’s how Tenia has historically dealt with rejection until this very moment when the Lord told me that it’s an immature coping mechanism. It’s my way of dealing...

Since my last therapy session I’ve wrestled with the thought of complete and total surrender. I’ve tried to imagine what my life would be like on the other side of it, but I was merely left with fearful “What if …” scenarios. I decided to take a walk and pour my heart out to the Lord about it. I shared my fears with Him: fear of a loss of control, fear of my surrender becoming transactional, fear that everything I held dear would be loosened from my grip. Everything that I prayed for, even...

In John 4:1-39 we learn about Jesus and the woman at the well. On His way back to Galilee Jesus had to go through Samaria - this was on purpose and for a purpose. Jesus stopped at this well to rest, and this is where he would encounter a woman, the Samaritan woman. Now we know that Jesus was a Jew and the woman was a Samaritan … Jews and Samaritans hardly interacted with one, but that did not stop the Savior of the world. Jesus asks the woman for something to drink and she’s like “Uh why are...