Happy New Year! The last few days I’ve been reading all the posts about what YOU NEED TO DO TO BE HAPPY and SKINNY and IN LOVE and FULFILLED and MORE ORGANIZED and BLAH BLAH BLAH. I’ll be up front with you. I’m not that kind of girl. I won’t be telling you how
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If These Walls Could Talk
If these walls could talk, what would they say? Would they tell about the love? And the tears? and the growing pains? Did they see when I was unsure and afraid and stepping out the door with trepidation? Could they feel when I returned and sank deep into the comfort of home? Do they know
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Just Be You
Just be you. That’s the advice my friend used to give me when I would go off on a tangent trying to fix myself and figure out my calling and when I wonder about why I was here and what I should do and what other people think of me. I used to think he
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Keeping it Real – My Messy Beautiful
This essay and I are part of the Messy, Beautiful Warrior Project — To learn more and join us, CLICK HERE! And to learn about the New York Times Bestselling Memoir Carry On Warrior: The Power of Embracing Your Messy, Beautiful Life, just released in paperback, CLICK HERE! When someone asks you how you are, what do you
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Back to Basics
Here’s how we are going to do March. We are getting Back to Basics. It’s our theme for Holy Yoga and our theme for Great Big Yes this month. If you are not following Great Big YES on Facebook please do so. There’s going to be BIG fun over there this month. Instagram is @suebidstrup
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Uncool
There has been lots of talk about Phillip Seymour Hoffman since his death. I love movies and he was so good in every movie but I have to say my favorite character he played is Lester Bangs in Almost Famous. My favorite line from him in that movie: The only true currency in this bankrupt
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I Have No Gifts to Bring
What do you think they said when they saw the star pointing the way to Jesus? What do we say? We say, “Who me? I am not ready! I have nothing to wear/bring/show!” Jesus came as a newborn baby…the most vulnerable among us…small, humble. He is saying to us, “Come as you are, don’t fuss,
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The Other Side
“Grief does not change you, Hazel. It reveals you.” ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars I’m grateful for grief. I guess. I mean, it does reveal us, right? It’s hard though. I guess I’d like to say I’m thankful for all of it and grief is part of it. Honestly, maybe I’m not thankful for
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Anticipation
I am grateful in anticipation for all of the amazing things God has in store for the Holy Yoga Ministry. Thank you God. I am so blessed to be a part of this loving Holy Yoga family. I am grateful. ©2013 Sue Bidstrup, Great Big YES™ All Rights Reserved