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Be All That God Created You To Be ~ More Goals to Consider

by Kim Avery

Jump start your week by prayerfully pondering some more of the things that God may be calling you to as you engage in His transformation process.

Each Tuesday on Transformed on Tuesdays you will learn how to become more and more the woman God created you to be. Then, you can drop by each weekend to find a short list of ideas to get your creative juices flowing. Some of the ideas won’t be for you but others will be just what God has in mind.

Begin today to be all that God created you to be. Imagine the possibilities. You could…

Submit your life to God instead of trying to run it yourself.

Become encouraging in everything you say.

Discover the life God has uniquely planned for you.

Improve the profitability of your company by 10% this year.

Expand your circle of friends to include those who truly inspire you.

Stop manipulating people and start accepting them.

Have fun without feeling guilty about it.

Communicate so clearly that people really get what you are saying.

Use time wisely and stop wasting it.

Reduce adrenaline in your life so you don’t burn out.

True transformation is hard. Changing the habits of a lifetime takes prayer, planning, practice, self-forgiveness when you fall short, and the ability to make adjustments along the way. Many women find change easier with the help, encouragement, support, accountability, and wisdom of a life coach walking by their side. Consider taking a minute to explore how life coaching can help you.

What change are you going to begin incorporating into your life today?


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Transformed on Tuesdays

by Kim Avery

I want to be different. You want to be different. We all want (and need) true transformation. But what exactly does that mean? Who exactly do we want to become?

Change Needed

It’s easy for me to articulate the things I don’t like about myself. My thighs are too fat, my neck is too wrinkled, and my nose a tad too big. Unfortunately, only plastic surgery can fix that.
Actually there are much more important things that I don’t like about myself, inner things, character flaws typically known as sin:

  • My tendency to think I know it all
  • The way I leap to judgment before I have all the facts
  • The tone of voice I use with my son
  • My desire to have everything my way
  • My lack of faith
  • My easily discouraged heart

If there were a Kim Avery version of the Bible (and let’s all be glad that there isn’t), I’m sure there would be a verse that read like this:

For Kim is one of God’s messes,
He got frustrated with her long ago,
and gave all the good things He planned for her to do to someone else.
I Kim 2:10

Thankfully, that verse isn’t in the Bible, in any version. Instead, God says this:

For we are God’s masterpiece.
He has created us anew in Christ Jesus,
so we can do the good things he planned for us long ago.
Ephesians 2:10 (NLT)

I am a masterpiece. You are one, too. And Scripture is continually exhorting us to grow into who He has already made us to be. And I’m ready.

Transformed on Tuesdays

Beginning tomorrow, I would like to take each Tuesday to search and discover who God made us to be and then learn how to fully engage in His transformation process.

Additionally, each weekend I plan to post a short list of things that God may (or may not) be calling you to incorporate into your journey of transformation. So be sure to stop by both Tuesday and Saturday to expand your thinking regarding what is possible with our amazing God.

I can’t afford to waste another day. I want to be all God created me to be.

Are you with me?


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Journaling or Blogging?

by Kim Avery

Can one blog about blogging? Is that kosher? Or is it like defining a word with the word itself? Ah well, at the risk of incurring my sixth grade teacher’s wrath, I’ll push on.

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Journals


Before blogs, there was the simple journal. It came in many different colors, shapes, and sizes. I own them all. I have leather journals, cloth bound, cardboard, and homemade. I have paid over twenty dollars for a completely blank book. (I hope my husband isn’t reading this.) And I have paid a dollar for a totally tacky journal covered with kaleidoscope colors. They all work.

I love journaling.  I love the soft leather cover, the parchment pages blank with potential, and the sound of my pen scratching out thoughts I never knew I had.  I can cry in my journal, laugh, plan, promise, and confess – I can bleed from the inside out in shades of hot pink and in the end, it feels good.

I am addicted.  I’ve tried quitting but to no avail.  Walk with me past any stationary store, listen carefully, and you will hear the blank journals begin to call my name.  “Kim, touch me, smell me, open me, write in me and I will change your life.”   Eventually, I succumb to their siren call and indeed, they do change my life.

I begin confused and end advised, start sad and finish glad, start weak and emerge strong.  God meets me in-between each ruled line and through journaling, true transformation occurs.

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Blogs

Now picture the humble blog. It too, comes in a myriad of shapes and sizes and at all prices. They all work.

I love blogging. I like the click of my painted nails as they tap the charcoal black keys. I thrill to the fact that my words can finally keep pace with my thoughts no matter where they roam. Best of all, I can punch the delete key with abandon and hasn’t that just saved my life a time or two.

While journaling is a solitary sport, blogging is not. I may write alone but with the mere push of a button labeled “send,” suddenly my thoughts are on naked display for the entire world to see. For all time. Gulp.

But blogging changes me. Elegant phrases composed to make me look good somehow end up as untutored words that let you see the real me. As you peer deep into my soul, I look, too. It is worth it for transparency invites accountability. And when you leave a grace-infused comment at the end of my authentic mess, I feel God’s smile.

How about you? Journaling or blogging?

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