For our first episode of 2025 we are digging out an episode from the archives! Enjoy this conversation from 2021 discussing how to move into the new year with intentionality.

Are you setting New Year's Resolutions or goals for 2021? Join us for this conversation with Mark Giebink, TeachBeyond's Director of Member Care, helping us shift our focus from striving for success to hope-filled surrender.

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• "Silence and Solitude, things that we tend to ignore in our busy lives, help us to make space for that reflection to give us time to look back, but then also to look forward, to really have a conversation with God about what we want life to look like."
• "If COVID has given us a gift, I think it's been to slow us down a little bit. It's exposed our interiors. As our outside world is iffy and unstable, it has exposed our hearts."
• "We can rearrange the furniture in our lives, but the real change happens inside us, in our hearts and in our minds."
• "Three key ingredients to transformation are honesty, God's presence, and a loving environment."
• "God lives and works and meets us in reality. He doesn't meet us in what we wish were the case or our fantasyland; He meets us in real life. That's the beauty of the incarnation."
• Romans 15:13
• "Hope is a huge ingredient for change. If we don't have hope, we're not going to do it."
• "Love is so much greater a motivation to change than fear."
• "Celebrating every success is important, breaking that big overarching goal into small steps."
• "Hold resolutions with open hands and make them an ongoing conversation with God so that it's not a one-time conversation."
• "There are two circles in life: things we can control and things we can't. We have to make sure our resolutions are related to things we can control."
• "To know that we are known and loved by God, that's a great motivator for transformation."

What's changing our lives:

• Keane: Rocket book
• Heather: Snuggly Sweater candle
• Mark: Chickens and grandkids

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