Stop asking God to change your circumstances and start praying for the character to handle them. One speaker shares how she overcame people-pleasing, listened to her own calling, and moved from California back to Michigan, finding that internal change reshapes what's possible outside.
I'm sorry, ladies, but if you're praying for God to change your circumstances, he's not going to. He wants to change you. He wants to build your character. And so we have to start praying differently and learn how to get through those circumstances, how to persevere, how to endure, how to suffer with joy, right?
And I do think there's also a piece of like where we get to change what's going on within us, and then things around us start to shift because our perspective shifts. And if we keep getting those emotions that come back, we get to take action to essentially listen to our soul and what our calling is. But I don't know about you guys, but I'm a recovering people pleaser and, uh, someone who recovers from doing what everyone else said I should do and how my life should look, which is part of the reason why I bought land in Michigan. Because I'm like, I wanna be back here. My soul is calling me to come back here. And I find myself in California and yes, there's so many great things there, but I get to build this house here. I get to live in California when I feel like it and, and do that dance because that's what my soul's calling. And so I think sometimes we get paralyzed in fear to make a decision that can be a huge financial decision. It could be, You know, something that hurts other people's feelings. It can be things where, you know, maybe our family's not gonna look the same, you know? And people are like, well, wait, but your husband has a business back there. What do you like? Is he gonna move here? Is he get— I'm like, I don't know, guys. I don't know what's gonna happen, but we're figuring it out. But I think that for a long time I didn't choose to come back and move back because it was like I was answering everybody else's questions.
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It's like we get to sit, this is our life. And we get to sit with it and be like, what is it that I truly desire? What is God putting in front of me? And step into that. And honestly, like everyone else, their opinions about us don't really matter.
