The Single Parent Preacher

We all have a past. We've all done thing we're not proud of. It does no good to hold a grudge against the past versions of ourselves. Let's talking about how to forgive the person we see in the mirror.

When we become single parents, there's a fundamental change in our lives. We have to be someone new. The more we fight against that basic fact, the harder everything is.

We all have painful pasts. We wish we could have done better. But the past is over. We live in the present and we need to be changing and healing now. Let's talk about letting the past drive us towards the future God has for us.

What does the Bible say about single parents? What does God see in us? Let's look at the Bible story that shows what God did specifically for a single parent.

We can't do everything. I think we are able to do more than we believe though. We need to know what our limits are, where the come from, and which ones we can break.

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Loneliness is a problem everyone struggles with. It's probably the thing I struggle with the most. I originally felt guilty about that and then realized that it's normal. It's about what you do with that feeling that matters.

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No matter how you came to be a single parent, you lost something. Let's talk about how we handle this vs how we should be handling it and why it's ok to cry.

The easiest thing to do is lose track of time. We do so much every day. What are we really accomplishing though? Let's talk about doing what matters with our time instead of just getting through our days.

We previously talked about being honest when we ask for help but we have another question to answer: why ask for help at all? 

We all expect certain things out of life. Some of those things come from us. Some are imposed on us by others. The problem becomes when we value our expectations over the real things that are happening and what God wants for our lives.

It is so easy to get trapped in what is familiar, even if that familiar thing is pain. The pain that brought us here is a part of us and we have to live with it but we don't have to live in it. We need to be healing. The first step is to be willing to leave the pain behind.

We do not live a life where we are always at 100%. What do we do when we hit empty?

We've talked about emotionally moving on. You're a new person now. So much of that is unseen though. It can be hard to quantify those things. Let's take a few minutes to talk about how physical stuff we have can damage or hinder our emotional healing.

Time for a Change: Part 2

Bad habits were meant to be broken. Unnecessary survival mechanisms were meant to be broken. Let's look at how we can refocus and break into true life.

Time for a Change: Part 1

The first few episodes were about examining ourselves, identifying our pain, and being able to acknowledge what's truly wrong. We start, now, to talk about external things we can do to start healing as well.

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Starting the Dialogue: Part 5

We've spent the last few episodes talking about doing work internally. It's time we took a look at what we need to do to express ourselves outwardly.

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Starting the Dialogue: Part 4

Healing is a lot of work. Work that can get very discouraging very fast.
We need some help. What are we really working for? Let's let God give us that help and hope.

Starting the Dialogue Part 3

We think about integrity and honesty as how we act towards and around other people. Acting with honesty and integrity towards others is something we generally strive to do, but what about with ourselves? Can we really say we've been honest with ourselves or do we live in a constant state of denial?

Starting the Dialogue: Part 2

It's about time we talked about who we are as individuals, not just by the name on our license or the job that we have, but who we are mentally, emotionally, and spiritually now. Not who we used to be, but who we currently are.

Starting the Dialogue: Part 1

As far as I can tell, every single parent's story has pain in it. Mine certainly does.

Out of respect for that, I want to establish some ground rules that we can all (hopefully) agree on. This is to be a place where our pain can be addressed and brought to God for healing, not a place of judgment.

Let's come together and start the healing process today.

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