tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8767297878140786887.post7251043157648940414..comments2023-05-03T02:27:32.218-07:00Comments on Living With Moxie: Claw Foot Bathtubs and K Awards Angel Hayneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05052740307959854375noreply@blogger.comBlogger18125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8767297878140786887.post-18173536141696974712015-03-21T14:34:58.648-07:002015-03-21T14:34:58.648-07:00I resonate with so much in this post. Thank you fo...I resonate with so much in this post. Thank you for your wisdom! I often wonder if I am doing enough and look to the right and left and compare. Its so exhausting to live in those lies. But God is so gracious when I am faithful in turning to His truth.<br />I especially loved the call from IF:gathering last year to "run your race". And I am grateful that I get to run this race alongside you! clepeauhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09871843500188613404noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8767297878140786887.post-37393394589922229882015-03-19T18:49:35.860-07:002015-03-19T18:49:35.860-07:00I have started to write something here at least 3 ...I have started to write something here at least 3 times but just can't get the words out. LOVE this and you and your honesty, always. ❤️Sarah Linghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16297374243824156954noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8767297878140786887.post-65576072586293616112015-03-18T23:41:19.307-07:002015-03-18T23:41:19.307-07:00Thank you for sharing Angel, I truly respect your ...Thank you for sharing Angel, I truly respect your vulnerability. I love even more how much it inspires all the woman to be vulnerable and share as well. Reading along, comments and all, reminded me of what the great community I belong to, full of women willing to go the second mile no matter what it takes in order to have a deeper, more real relationship with God. <br />I too can relate to so much that was said, I too look at people ugly-jealous when they allow themselves to rest and nurture themselves. It has always been a struggle for me to not measure my worthiness in what i do for people or in what i have to offer. Just when i thought i had learned as much as i could, POW i have another baby :) All i can do and want to do is be a mom and wife the best I can. God really had to close me in without a way out. I have no choice but to stand still and say: I have nothing to offer you friends, nothing that I think would make me valuable to you, Do you still love me?.... At the end of the day, God has to be enough for me! Blancahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13427111321125045578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8767297878140786887.post-33409827293329928352015-03-18T08:46:22.013-07:002015-03-18T08:46:22.013-07:00Great post Angel! Thanks for sharing what God has...Great post Angel! Thanks for sharing what God has been speaking to you! This definitely resonated with me. As a pastor's wife with little ones I often feel pulled in all different directions and end up feeling that I'm not enough in any arena or that I should always be doing more. I needed the reminder that God hasn't made me or called me to be all things, but to thrive right where He has placed me in this season.Colehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10798601639104066777noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8767297878140786887.post-86699549449741143782015-03-17T00:17:39.785-07:002015-03-17T00:17:39.785-07:00Always love hearing from you. I love how your able...Always love hearing from you. I love how your able to communicate clearly and effectively, while making it spiritually challenging. You're truly an asset to tucson and Gods kingdom. <br /><br />Also that 1980 outfit....yes<br />-CalebAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12002938506929730947noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8767297878140786887.post-71843126874801766172015-03-16T14:49:44.794-07:002015-03-16T14:49:44.794-07:00Thank you for keeping your heart open throughout t...Thank you for keeping your heart open throughout the difficulty of life, relationships and ministry. Your open heart is such an encouragement to me. <br /><br />I resonate with hard work playing a role in my identity and I have relied on that in the past instead of relying fully on my identity in Jesus. There are still areas of my heart the Holy Spirit is working on in that regard. <br /><br />The Holy Spirit has given me many moments over the last couple years of reflection on the beautiful work on my life He has done. I feel so humbled and loved by God, remembering where I was and where he has taken me and who He has made me become. I am a new and beautiful creation in Him. My offering to Him is a life that shows what He's done in me. Thank you, Angel for your influence on my life! <br /><br />Love you and praying for you! Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17600296692808039861noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8767297878140786887.post-91047573293301644522015-03-16T11:01:23.732-07:002015-03-16T11:01:23.732-07:00I loved this post just like all the ladies before ...I loved this post just like all the ladies before me. I can completely relate to looking to the right and the left for a fear of being over looked. My insecurity in this area comes in serving. I fear if I don't serve in every area then people won't notice my service or if I don't fill every need I see or hear about then people won't believe me when I say I have the gift of service. This is super disgusting and gross. I feel like last week Chad's message hit me in the gut. God very clearly told me through Chad that it doesn't matter if other people notice. What matters is I act out of obedience for the Lord and know that my reward is in heaven and my reward it eternity with Jesus. I am also learning that if I try to fill all the needs others don't have an opportunity to use their gifts. If I am so focused on filling every need instead of being in tune to the needs God would have me fill I am missing opportunities God has laid before me. <br /><br />Thank you for loving me and the women of Second Mile so well!!Nickyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05785697172920619633noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8767297878140786887.post-24749686642916317422015-03-16T10:11:28.550-07:002015-03-16T10:11:28.550-07:00Thank you for your vulnerability in this post, Ang...Thank you for your vulnerability in this post, Angel. I really appreciate how you connected things in your past with where you are today, and your willingness to let God redeem it. I've been diving into my past lately, and it has been good to see some of my blind spots come forward. One of the most prevalent ones is accepting that I need to take better care of myself by creating nourishing friendships, prioritizing time with Him, and resting. I think in my own mix of pride and lies, I've come to believe that I don't need/deserve/get the self-care (soul care? haha) that others do. Yet I'll find myself feeling ugly-jealous of people who allow themselves to slow down and to let others take care of them. Re-learning that God has set me free for freedom's sake, not to be used by Him, has been life-giving. It has allowed my desire for obedience to be motivated by love instead of duty, and has begun to instill much more joy and hope in my obedience.<br /><br />Also, LOVE love love you and your awesome family, and will be praying for you all this week.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10379801972318520762noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8767297878140786887.post-5271561120527430682015-03-15T22:38:09.163-07:002015-03-15T22:38:09.163-07:00Beautiful post. Thank you for sharing your heart! ...Beautiful post. Thank you for sharing your heart! And I agree with Erin, I TOTALLY, see Morgan in some of the pictures! <br /><br /> I love Ecclesiastes 5:19 "Everyone also to whom God has given wealth and possessions, and power to enjoy them, and to accept his lot and rejoice in his toil, this is the gift of God." Sometimes the day to day feels rather insignificant and I feel like there often is little to show for the work I do at home. It is so wonderfully freeing to know that I have a God that loves me and doesn't require me to do "big" things by the world's standards but judges my heart and my willingness to obey. I'm continuing to work in finding my confidence in his love and grace and not my own actions. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17935003248137757144noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8767297878140786887.post-7676440232278435202015-03-15T22:07:41.712-07:002015-03-15T22:07:41.712-07:00Thanks for a beautiful post, Angel. The concept of...Thanks for a beautiful post, Angel. The concept of "earning" acceptance from other people is familiar to me. Go figure. :) I am so familiar with looking for my stacks of "K awards" and peeking at the stacks of others, even just to see if I matter. If I match up. Do I meet your expectations? God has been so gracious to show my much freedom from living under the tyranny of that, but I also constantly re-learn that lesson. <br /><br />I think something God has been teaching me a lot about lately is my own childhood and past, actually. I realized recently that I think some of the more difficult things from my childhood created in me characteristics that actually match a mild form of a particular personality disorder. I don't show too many symptoms anymore, but I see my 19-21-year-old self staring me in the face. Patterns of avoidance, impulsiveness, insecurity, mercurial angst, inability to form stable relationships for a gnawing fear of abandonment...ugly stuff. But making that connection, apart from being sad, was also freeing. God is drawing me out of my own caves of fear and into open fields of grace. I also see the gracious beauty of what He already HAS done to change what was once overwhelming. Seeing these patterns as an actual trauma-induced disorder helped me to realize that they weren't ingrained pieces of my design, but coping mechanisms from which I could heal. Not life sentences, but bricks in just a part of my journey's road. Deep things. <br /><br />God hasn't forgotten. He hasn't left. He hasn't rigged me up to fail in the thousand ways I sometimes expect to. No...our God is for us. He is Emmanuel, God with us. As Hagar so poignantly realized, He is the God who sees. He has seen my past, and knows my present. He knows the plans He has for me. :) God is for us, not against us. And His praise will ever be on my lips. <br /><br />-Christy HarrisonAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8767297878140786887.post-44517967150248555962015-03-15T21:24:23.149-07:002015-03-15T21:24:23.149-07:00"We no longer need to look to the left or to ..."We no longer need to look to the left or to the right to see what others are doing or to see if they are looking at us." This is something I tell myself over and over again, but still don't seem to believe it! Brings me back to the verse God gave me last year Galatians 1:10.<br /><br />"Am I now trying to win the approval of human beings, or of God? Or am I trying to please people? If I were still trying to please people, I would not be a servant of Christ." Galatians 1:10 NIV<br /><br />I think the biggest thing God is teaching me right now is that He is everything I need. I feel like in the last year I have had a lot of my identity taken away from me. I know God is preparing me for more and the best life he has for me, but it doesn't make the loss of identity any easier to take. So for now I am trying to focus more on what God has given me and less on what I feel He has taken away. Learning who I am in Christ and focusing on this identity instead of creating a worldly identity.<br /><br />And I love seeing my rock there and reminded what God has challenged me to do! Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13026897949475733319noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8767297878140786887.post-1577726732182335792015-03-15T19:37:19.697-07:002015-03-15T19:37:19.697-07:00Thank you so much for sharing this, Angel. I alway...Thank you so much for sharing this, Angel. I always appreciate your willingness to be vulnerable and real with us women. Can I also say, I definitely see a little of Morgan in that second picture down. So cute! God has been teaching me how he is enough in the realm of finances and that he sustains me as I strive to lead out in my community. I am not enough nor do I have enough strength work on my own, but HE is and I'm learning how much freedom there is in leaning on him.Erin Phillipshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14484559856883669579noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8767297878140786887.post-17064515032043213242015-03-15T14:42:30.431-07:002015-03-15T14:42:30.431-07:00I'm rereading "practically theology for w...I'm rereading "practically theology for women " so a lot of what I've been learning has been right in line with the Hebrews study. It's been a good reminder of the reality that we live out what we believe. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08086687028220382468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8767297878140786887.post-9078335542938749582015-03-15T14:40:32.373-07:002015-03-15T14:40:32.373-07:00Ugh, wrote a comment and managed to erase it. So I...Ugh, wrote a comment and managed to erase it. So I'll get right to it! I've been learning that even though I have certain talents and the ability to work hard and do a good job, I can't will good things into place in my life. I'm not God, I'm not in control, and often the things I think are good for me really aren't.tracyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12080493831566444793noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8767297878140786887.post-22206161880779122022015-03-15T12:57:04.295-07:002015-03-15T12:57:04.295-07:00I really connected with what you said in this post...I really connected with what you said in this post. Especially when you shared that God doesn't seek to give us a big house, or a perfect job to show that he remembers us. He has already given us Jesus and the Holy Spirit to prove we are not overlooked. Thanks Angel for being vulnerable and sharing.Loretta Alvarezhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15628101618432133439noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8767297878140786887.post-120352797462984652015-03-15T12:53:58.933-07:002015-03-15T12:53:58.933-07:00I just love you Angel Haynes. Thank you for shari...I just love you Angel Haynes. Thank you for sharing your thoughts and opening your heart so we can glean from what you have to share. <br />To often I fall into the lie of caring what others think and looking around instead of straight ahead. It is such a good reminder and something I need to put into practice that GOD is enough and he always sees me. May I be confident in the gifts God has given me and ready to share them. <br />Thank you my friend for being you. Love and miss you!!! Jen Griffithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00409525407300122240noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8767297878140786887.post-44028473758708216702015-03-15T12:47:27.802-07:002015-03-15T12:47:27.802-07:00God had been showing me also that He is enough. Da...God had been showing me also that He is enough. Day to day He is asking me to believe that He is better and to trust Him to uphold me in all of the big and small acts of obedience. From continuing to seek community to engaging with women at work, it is all about experiencing more of Him and resting in His sufficiency. I know I already said this but He keeps bringing me back to it: If God is upholding me, then that is enough for me.Erin Anderellihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12166617911567673285noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8767297878140786887.post-4311670011739656292015-03-15T12:45:55.329-07:002015-03-15T12:45:55.329-07:00So many thoughts!
1. Miss Cinderella Pagent!? How...So many thoughts!<br /><br />1. Miss Cinderella Pagent!? How could I have not known about that before? The years of teasing that have been wasted!<br /><br />2. I was already going to comment before I got to the contest, so I think that should count for some extra credit...<br /><br />3. I resonate with a lot of this. Wanting recognition for my 'achievements' is a theme of my life. And even currently I struggle with wanting to be praised, sought out, acknowledged, SEEN. I have been working with Jesus to let him be enough for me, to lean into him and know and understand that he sees me, he seeks me out always. There are good and bad days in this area, but he is moving this truth deeper into my heart through his word, teachings and life circumstances. I'm so thankful he's so faithful!<br /><br />4. Glad to hear all you're learning, friend. I appreciate your willingness to share your life and heart with us as a way to encourage us to go deeper in our own relationships. I certainly am glad that Jesus has you where you're at. :)Emilyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17975078201266855619noreply@blogger.com