{"id":475,"date":"2018-09-02T10:42:00","date_gmt":"2018-09-02T15:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/encourage-others-encourage-yourself\/"},"modified":"2019-02-18T10:15:08","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T16:15:08","slug":"encourage-others-encourage-yourself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/?p=475","title":{"rendered":"Encourage Others. Encourage Yourself."},"content":{"rendered":"
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I apologize in advance. I said that I wasn\u2019t going to keep harping about my birthday, but the inspirations just keep coming. I was amused when my son turned 50 last year, and at his family celebration, his sons were playfully teasing him about his newfound midlife age of 50. They\u2019d make remarks like \u201cDad, do you need help getting up the stairs?\u201d While speaking really loud to him \u201cDad, can you hear me?\u201d It was all in fun, but I remembered those words when I was turning 70. I was prepared to hear similar remarks but was pleasantly surprised that all of my family had such kind and encouraging words for me. Ryan was wearing a shirt on Sunday that said \u201cSundays\u201d on it. Braden said, \u201cNana, be so thankful that you know what day of the week it is because Dad has to wear a shirt to remind him!\u201d LOL! The most negative words I heard about me over the weekend were from me. I\u2019d start to say something and lose my train of thought, and I\u2019d say \u201cWell, I\u2019m 70 now. Get used to it.\u201d Then I\u2019d mentally spank myself for speaking negatively about my new age.<\/p>\n

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The second photo here is of a table with words on it that said: \u201c70 Reasons Why I Love Nana\u201d. (Check out our sweet Bentley photo-bombing!) Each one had written down encouraging words that were typed on cards for the table. Phrases like: \u201cYou are always smiling.\u201d \u201cYou are so brave and led us parasailing!\u201d \u201cYou are a Godly woman that shows us how to chase God!\u201d \u201cYou are sooo much fun!\u201d \u201cYou believe in me and help me believe in myself!\u201d \u201cYou are the best Nana in the world.\u201d \u201cYou take care of my animals.\u201d \u201cYou are a prayer warrior!\u201d Now, that\u2019s what I call encouragement.<\/p>\n

We live in a day and age when everyone wants a coach — someone to spur them on \u2013 someone to be their cheerleader. But, in the meantime, if we don\u2019t have those in our life, we shouldn\u2019t just sit there, pining away because there are no cheerleaders in sight. We need to start being our own coach, cheerleader, and encourager by affirming ourselves: \u201cGood job! Good Girl! Well done! You\u2019ve got this! You nailed it!\u201d<\/p>\n

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We should be encouragers to each other for sure, but it\u2019s A-Okay to do that for ourselves, too. We need to coach our lips because we know that the power of life and death are in the tongue and we need to be careful with the words we speak to ourselves. We need to coach our head. The Bible talks about taking our thoughts captive. That\u2019s so important, especially when our thoughts are running wild with negativity and worry and concern and we need to lasso them back into captivity. We need to coach our hands. What good does it do to have all the knowledge in our head of what God wants us to do and not do it? So many are looking for someone to rescue them, and with our hands reaching out, we can be the answer to someone\u2019s prayer.<\/p>\n

Our words should be filled with blessings — words that affirm and approve; words that commend and compliment; words that specifically speak love and affection; words that invoke hope and self-confidence; and words that answer pain and disappointment with support and faith. May our words and actions bring light and life to our family and our world today. Let’s be encouragers!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I apologize in advance. I said that I wasn\u2019t going to keep harping about my birthday, but the inspirations just keep coming. I was amused when my son turned 50 last year, and at his family celebration, his sons were playfully teasing him about his newfound midlife age of 50. They\u2019d make remarks like \u201cDad,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1714,1715,837,1716,1717,1718,1719,1720,1721,1266,1722,1723,1724,1725,1726],"class_list":["post-475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-affirming","tag-approve","tag-blessings","tag-cheerleader","tag-coach","tag-commend","tag-compliment","tag-encourage","tag-encourager","tag-encouraging","tag-inspirations","tag-reasons-why-i-love","tag-speaking-negatively","tag-well-done","tag-you-nailed-it"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=475"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8535,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475\/revisions\/8535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}