Category: Mindful Mondays 2026
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Mindful Mondays: Time With Jesus Rooted and Radiant Week Thirty: Reflecting – Compassion Flows From Abiding
Good morning, friends. Have you ever reached the end of a season and realized you weren’t just physically tired…you were tired somewhere much deeper? I remember a season like that in my own life. Years of counseling, ministry, leadership, and walking alongside people through some of the hardest moments of their lives had been a…
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Mindful Mondays: Time With Jesus Rooted and Radiant – Week Twenty-Nine Reflecting: Slowing Down for People
Have you ever reached the end of a day and realized you accomplished a lot, but you barely noticed the people around you? I know I have. Life moves quickly. There are schedules to keep, emails to answer, errands to run, meals to prepare, and responsibilities that seem to multiply overnight. Before we know it,…
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Mindful Mondays: Time With Jesus Rooted and Radiant – Week Twenty-Eight Reflecting: Words That Build
Some words stay longer than the moment they were spoken.You probably know that from experience. A sentence someone said years agothat you can still hear clearly. A comment that landed deeper than expected.A phrase that either strengthened something in youor quietly pulled it down. Words have a way of doing that. They don’t just pass…
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Mindful Mondays: Time With Jesus Rooted and Radiant – Week Twenty-Seven Reflecting: Listening Well
As a counselor, mentor and coach this practice can be especially challenging for me.As a result, I am continually asking Jesus to form His will to listen well within me.I don’t think I’m alone in this… The one I am with starts talking: “Can I tell you something?”and almost immediately, you feel it. The urge…
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Mindful Mondays: Time With Jesus Rooted and Radiant – Week Twenty-Six Reflecting: Presence Over Perfection
You can be with someone… and not really be with them. You can hear their words and already be forming your response. You can sit across from them while your mind is somewhere else entirely. Thinking ahead – Solving something. Trying to say the right thing and it’s not because you don’t care. It’s often…
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Mindful Mondays: Time With Jesus Rooted and Radiant – Week Twenty-Five Reflecting: Love Moves Toward Others
If we were sitting together, I think I might notice something before I even asked a question. Not something loud.Not something obvious. Just… a softness. A steadiness that wasn’t there before. The way you respond.The way you hold space.The way you don’t rush past things as quickly as you once did. And maybe you wouldn’t…
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Mindful Mondays: Time With Jesus Rooted and Radiant – Week Twenty-Four Becoming: What Is Growing Begins to Show
If we were sitting together right now, I think I’d ask you a simple question. Not about what you’re working onor what you’re trying to changebut this: What feels different lately? Not dramatic.Not perfect. Just… different. Because sometimes growth doesn’t announce itself. It shows up quietly. In the way you respond.In how quickly you return.In…
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Mindful Mondays: Time With Jesus Rooted and Radiant – Week Twenty-Three Becoming: Living From Who You Are
Before we go any further, let’s just pause for a second. Not to figure anything out.Not to try harder.Just to take a breath and settle in. Sometimes we don’t realize how much effort we’re carryinguntil we stop moving long enough to notice it. The quiet pressure to grow.To respond better.To become who we’re supposed to…
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Mindful Mondays: Time With Jesus Rooted and Radiant – Week Twenty-Two Becoming: Rooted and Steady
You don’t always notice when something has become steady. There’s no clear moment where it happens.No announcement.No line you cross where everything suddenly feels different. It’s quieter than that. You just begin to realize, at some point,that something that used to feel shaky… doesn’t feel quite as shaky anymore. A thought that used to pull…
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Mindful Mondays: Time With Jesus Rooted and Radiant – Week Twenty-One Becoming: Offering Your Everyday Life
Before we begin, take a breath with me. Not a deep, intentional one.Just the kind you already have. Right here.Right now. Because what we’re about to talk about isn’t something far off or hard to reach. It’s already in your hands…Your everyday life. The ordinary moments you move through without thinking twice.The routines.The responsibilities.The conversations.The…