God’s plan is better than your plan. The beauty is you don’t have to figure it all out. All you have to do is commit your ways to God, keep Him first place, and He’ll guide you down the best path for your life.

Clear communication is so attractive.

And when you pray tonight…pray for presence in the present. We spend so much time on the past and future never present. The past is full of “could’ve, should’ve” ..so many regrets. The future is hopeful but we never really know what it holds. Be present.. show up and live now!!

When you refuse to collaborate, you dilute the power of unity.

Be thankful for the little things ✔️

If you wait until you're ready, you'll be waiting the rest of your life.

Don't get comfortable. Take risks. Change. Try learning about a field you don't know anything about. Or stepping into a viewpoint you've never considered.

It happened the way it did so you could evolve. See the greatness that came out of you instead of questioning why things happened the way it did. Just a shift in your perspective opens you up to new opportunities and helps you attract new blessings filled with great experiences.

You don't have to explain yourself to people who are committed to misunderstanding you...

Always treat people better than how they treated you. Be kind to the unkind. Be the first to forgive. Lift the person who tried to push you down. Utter good words to your haters. Smile for no apparent reason just because you are grateful.

To avoid disappointment, start taking people exactly as they are instead of romanticizing about what they could be.

Nobody is coming to save you. Get up. Be your own hero.

When you understand that God has divine detours, that He uses the wrongs—things we don’t understand, delays, setbacks—to move us into our destiny, then you won’t fight it; you’ll flow with it.

Happiness is the new rich. Inner peace is the new success. Health is the new wealth. Kindness is the new cool.

We’ve all made mistakes, gone our own ways. But God, who is rich in mercy when we turn our backs on Him, doesn’t turn His back on us. He stoops down to the messy places, to where we failed, to where we should have been finished, and He brings us back.

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