What is your favorite form of physical exercise?
When this prompt originally popped up I was not exercising, but I have gotten back to using my hand cycle for 5 minutes a day.
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What are three objects you couldn’t live without?
I can’t live without
1. My phone
2.Music
3. Coffee from home or a green Tea from Starbucks
Do you believe in fate/destiny?
I believe that God orders our steps and that following him is like a game plan and not a blueprint. There are significant that he tells us to do or not to do, but he also gives us room to make our own choices
Yay, we are one day away from my favorite month of the year (besides April because that is my birthday month). March is known as Cerebral Palsy Awareness Month. Still, it should be called Cerebral Palsy Celebration Month because the word awareness sounds like everyone with CP is in a sad situation and needs a cure to become normal.
These were the thoughts that I once had, and the cure for this way of thinking is community. Choosing to be part of the disability community instead of being an outsider is the best thing I’ve ever done.
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Tell us about your favorite pair of shoes, and where they’ve taken you.
I have two pairs of New Balance 813 shoes. They are the most supportive walking shoes I’ve owned. I wear my white ones when I wear light colors and my black shoes when I wear dark colors.
What are some small things that make your day better?
1. I need to listen to music every day
2.Coffee always makes my day better.
What is your favorite road trip snack?
I love gummy bears or peach rings.
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Today, Encouragement Notes reached 2000 listens. I love this ministry that God has given me. During our #BoundlessBabeSociety meeting, we talked about choices, and we worked on creating vision boards for 2024. I pray that God continues to bless Encouragement Notes, and I hope that I can start speaking to audiences in person. I would love to talk around Los Angeles to schools, churches, and therapy units, and my dream Location would be Children’s Hospital Los Angeles
List five things you do for fun.
1. I like singing
2. Going on lunch
3. Going out for coffee
4. Dancing
5. Chatting with friends
One day some Pharisees and teachers of religious law arrived from Jerusalem to see Jesus. They noticed that some of his disciples failed to follow the Jewish ritual of hand washing before eating. (The Jews, especially the Pharisees, do not eat until they have poured water over their cupped hands, as required by their ancient traditions. Similarly, they don’t eat
anything from the market until they immerse their hands in water. This is but one of many traditions they have clung to—such as their ceremonial washing of cups, pitchers, and kettles.) So the Pharisees and teachers of religious law asked him, ‘Why don’t your disciples follow our age-old tradition? They eat without first performing the hand-washing ceremony.’ Jesus replied, ‘You hypocrites! Isaiah was right when he prophesied about you, for he wrote, ‘These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. Their worship is a farce, for they teach man-made ideas as commands from God.’”
– Mark 7:1-23
1. Hypocrisy is not the gap between what we do and what we wish we did.
2. Hypocrisy is the gap between what we show and Who We Are.
3. Jesus has no tolerance for hypocrites but unlimited Grace for sinners in need.
Hope for the hypocrite:
1. Start being an honest sinner rather than a lying hypocrite
“People who conceal their sins will not prosper, but if they confess
and turn from them, they will receive mercy.”
– Proverbs 28:13
2. Stop trying to close the gap with perfection
MEMORY VERSE
“Search me, O God, and know my heart;
test me and know my anxious thoughts.
Point out anything in me that offends you,
and lead me along the path of everlasting life.”
– Psalm 139:23-24
3. Focus on closing the Gap with Jesus
“Let us draw near to God with a sincere heart and with the full assurance that
faith brings, having our hearts sprinkled to cleanse us from a guilty conscience
and having our bodies washed with pure water. Let us hold unswervingly to
the hope we profess, for he who promised is faithful.”
– Hebrews 10:22-23
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