The Hello Mornings Blog

This post is by Sabeth Kapahu.

It’s a new year and as much as I would love to tell you that there is a new you on the horizon…. you are the one and only you, and there’s nothing new about that.

The reality is, we don’t magically turn into somebody different at the stroke of midnight Dec 31st. We become somebody different with consistent intentional moment by moment choices. One at a time. We grow in our capacity. We discover new levels of our passions. We push our physical limits. We develo...

This post is by Jen Stanbro.

I feel like I need a T-shirt that says, “Woman who God is with,” because really, that’s what matters most about me. 

In the past, people have looked at my life and commented things like, “Oh, I could never get up that early, I’m not a morning person.” Ha, neither am I.

“I could never homeschool my kids, just getting them to do their homework is a struggle.” Yep, same here. My kids are no different than anyone else’s. 

“I could never be a foster parent. I’d get to...

This post is by Patty Lewis.

I have to remind myself and encourage you by saying that we should not mistake making goals, Reviewing & Previewing, and doing a Personal Inventory as a means of attaining perfection.  We don’t always realize it, but the tension is there.  The desire to do it right exactly or just not try at all.  Or, try, but choose only to see our failures.

Paul once said in Philippians 3:12-14 (New International Version)

Not that I have already obtained all this, or have alread...

This post is by Jen Shultz.

In a world where we are consistently challenged to become more self aware, I certainly still have some major blind spots. Knowing the things I do not do well is not always the problem. It is glaringly obvious I am never going to run a marathon or be able to lift heavy objects. My body just is not built for those things and if you knew how quickly I was able to list those deficits in my wheelhouse, you might be shocked. But, that is how the temporal has us focused—on ...

This post is by Cindy Chen.

It is easy to come into the new year and attempt to be a whole new you. But few changes can take place when we don’t take into account who we are and where we are in this season.

It’s easy to be influenced to want to make big sweeping changes, to revamp our whole lives, whole homes, and whole diets. But it’s not easy to maintain these changes if we don’t first start where we are. 

If I decided to run a mile every day, before I was consistently walking a mile a d...

This post is by Tami Rodriguez.

For which of you, intending to build a tower, does not sit down first and count the cost, whether he has enough to finish it— lest, after he has laid the foundation, and is not able to finish, all who see it begin to mock him, saying, ‘This man began to build and was not able to finish’? (Luke 14:28-30).  

With a new year in view it’s normal to set goals and make big plans. New Year’s Resolutions are fun! They’re exciting! You can do ANYTHING! Coming off a major...

This post is by Patty Lewis.

The days are full and busy.  No matter how much I try to plan to slow down, even when my word for 2024 was “slowly,” it just seems like our family is often operating at a speed that is not healthy.  So, when I think of the coming year and how I may be doing a personal inventory in January, I wonder what that is going to look like. 

I am learning that setting goals, achieving habits and following through takes more than a one time one day commitment to do it.  I mus...

This post is by Tami Rodriguez.

Seasons come and seasons go so they say. 

As a wife and mother, I’m not sure I ever thought much about seasons. Life often felt like one unending day. I’d make a meal, serve a meal, clean up a meal…repeat repeat repeat. I’d do laundry and do laundry and do laundry. Nothing felt very significant or noteworthy. Yes, I was raising kids to be “Kingdom builders” and trying to equip them to have an impact on this world—but often that felt like little bits of tim...

This post is by Shari Gabourel.

Every now and again, I’m inclined to have a mental meltdown. I try not to exceed two in a given month…but when life keeps happening, the number tends to go up. 

The truth is the mental meltdowns I experienced were more or less spiritual breakdowns. And the breakdowns, as it were, were generally sparked by some perceived crisis, considering my limited perspective. 

A narrow perspective can sometimes be attributed to where an individual is or is not spirituall...