chosen and approved Archives

Chosen and Approved: Whatever She’s Having, Please

by mgeisen | Nov 8, 2016 | spirituality

Today Jeanne, Emily and I wrap up our Chosen and Approved series. Emily shares her experience with feeling insecure when making decisions. She begins with a story from childhood and describes a “whatever she’s having, please” way of life beginning at...

Chosen and Approved: Knowing Where Our Value Comes From

by mgeisen | Oct 25, 2016 | spirituality

Looking to the world for approval trips us up over and over again. Time after time we walk away disappointed because the world’s standards never seem to match the measuring stick of our expectations. Today we continue our Chosen and Approved series and Jeanne...

Lessons from David for the People-Pleasers

by mgeisen | Oct 18, 2016 | spirituality

Today is week three of the Chosen and Approved: Untangling Our Identities from People and Perfection series. Today Emily takes a look at the story of David to help us understand our people-pleasing tendencies. She digs into David’s affair with Bathsheba and the...

Reflections of Ourselves

by mgeisen | Oct 11, 2016 | spirituality

Today we continue our series on Chosen and Approved: Untangling our Identities from People and Perfection. I know I spend more time listening to who the world says I am instead of embracing the truth that I am known and chosen by God. I get caught up in worldly...

Chosen & Approved: People Pleasing

by mgeisen | Oct 4, 2016 | spirituality

Peer-rejection does crooked things to a young girl’s heart. It makes her crave acceptance and approval to the exclusion (and the erasure) of being able to be herself. Who God created her to be. Rejection implanted messages in my thoughts and my heart. Messages that...