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MERRY CHRISTMAS :: JEFF HOLT :: A GIFT FOR YOU

By Lara | December 25, 2009 | 23

Something big happened on Monday.  A shift.  Like earthquake magnitude 5 kind of shift.  I am still processing it and will blog all about my thoughts on the first

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I’m a grateful wife, mom to three (one through the gift of adoption), and an unlikely gardener. I’m the creator of PowerSheets Intentional Goal Planner, host of the Cultivate Your Life podcast, and best-selling author of Make It Happen, Cultivate, and Gracie’s Garden. I love living in Chapel Hill, NC. You can learn more about me here!

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A month away from posting here and a month of adve A month away from posting here and a month of adventures—at home and last week in the mountains. ⛰🎉 Read my recap of August and my September goals on the blog now. Link in my profile - LaraCasey.com/blog. Josh just turned 5 (!) and is into doing push-ups—everywhere. Ha! Love this crew.
Feel like your brain is on overdrive lately? We’ Feel like your brain is on overdrive lately? We’ve had a lot on our minds this year—more than I think we realize. It’s no wonder we’re tired from decision fatigue! Maybe it’s a good time to reset our expectations. Consider this: would you make better decisions if you did life at 75% right now instead of trying to stay at 100% (or 150%) all the time? Would you actually be more productive in the right things with time to see clearly what those things are? Extraordinary times invite us to change, to reset our expectation of how much rest we really need, to give more grace, and to go after the things that matter. I think we need more time to think than we think we need. 🙂 (Read that again!) Time to process and land. Time to come undone. It turns out that coming undone is part of coming alive. Read how vacuuming can help (yes, vacuuming and several other things!) and see my August goals on the blog today. Read now at LaraCasey.com/blog or the link in my profile. P.S. Anyone know the name of the zinnias in my hand? These are magical and I can’t find the name!
I’ve led this conference 47 times and number 47 I’ve led this conference 47 times and number 47 (our first-ever virtual experience!) is one for the history books! More than any other year, we all NEEDED this. We needed space to process. To turn off our phones for 2 days. To turn down the noise and turn up our hearts. To look forward. To get clear about what matters in the big picture. And to make decisions to DO something about it. Ladies of @cultivatewhatmatters’ Making Things Happen Conference 2020, I love you! You are wise, generous, beautiful women. There are still 164 days in this year. That’s a whole lot of time to grow good things, little by little, with passion and clarity right where we are. This year isn’t over yet, friends. Let’s LIVE it! Above: how I feel about the women I spent the last two days with: 100% worth destroying my office with a shower of confetti at the end of our time together. 🎉 I may never clean it up!
Lettuce celery-brate! It’s HERE!!! 🌱🌼🌽🍅🥕🥬🌻🎉🎉🎉 Turnip the beet! Gracies Garden releases today and I am so excited for you to enjoy these pages! May this special little book bring you joy, laughter, and encourage you to get out there in the dirt together. Little by little, good things grow! 🙌 Order Gracie’s Garden now wherever books or sold or click the link in my profile! . Thank you all for encouraging me to write this book, and thanks to real-life Nutty the Squirrel who ate 4 peaches for supper last night. (Those peaches are collectively larger than he is—how does this happen?!) 🍑 We’ve learned to share, though - and grow extra for the company we keep in the garden! . Fun bonus: we made the book jacket a poster of garden jokes! ✨ My kids think it’s the coolest thing. I hope it brings you joy, too!
This year has been one of peaks and valleys. In un This year has been one of peaks and valleys. In uncharted land (all of 2020!), neither peaks nor valleys are entirely relaxing, though, right? Peaks take energy to climb and there is usually thick vegetation in valleys—and water to cross. But, as hard as traversing mountainous land can be, climbing through peaks and valleys does do something good: it builds your endurance. Your strength. Your navigating skills. Your perspective of the land. Your confidence. Your humility. Your reliance on God for strength and your awe of Him for providing it. We went hiking all last week. ⛰ The mountain air and hard work of hiking let our minds and bodies unravel a little from this year. We hiked over 20 miles with the kids through Tennessee and North Carolina over 5 days. We crossed creeks and played in rivers. We climbed tall peaks and ate a lot of snacks. :) Ari and I had long conversations at night as we watched cows graze. As we hit this mid-point of 2020, I'm looking back on the blog today—and looking ahead. There is new perspective to be found at the end of many-a-rocky-hike. Read my Mid-Year Review and July goals on LaraCasey.com/blog or the link in my profile.

P.S. There’s a peek at our giant pumpkin for you in the post. 🌱💛
Waiting can be hard, can't it? We've done a lot of Waiting can be hard, can't it? We've done a lot of it this year! Step into Gracie’s Garden 🌱 This little book's timely message about patience (and learning to enjoy the wait) is something we all need during this unprecedented year—kids and us, too. Good things grow little by little and the rewards don’t just come in the harvest; they come in the wait if we're willing to look around us. When we do, we notice growth and daily miracles.✨ Gracie's Garden releases July 14th—pre-order your copy today everywhere books are sold! You’ll step into the garden to play, laugh, and celebrate life right where we are. Want to see inside? Go behind-the-scenes now at LaraCasey.com - link in my profile (my new website went live today, too!). Many thanks to everyone who brought this book to life. I’m so thankful. I hope you and all the kiddos in your life to enjoy these pages together! P.S. Recognize the voice in the video above (swipe left)? 💛
The Lord is at hand; do not be anxious about anyth The Lord is at hand; do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. Philippians 4:6-7

Praying peace over you all.
Praying for renewal. For hope to flood your souls as we near the half-way point of the year. This mid-point of 2020 is a chance for us to mark a new start. A chance to choose hope. A chance to be transformed by the renewing of our minds. A chance to take new steps forward. A chance to grow something good right where we are. (Join me for the Mid-Year Refresh starting June 22 - MidYearRefresh.com.) . P.S. I’ll be back next Wednesday to share the children’s book with you—a little book about planting seeds, enjoying the wait, and believing in what we can’t yet see. 💛 . (Our baby giant pumpkin above - learning these lessons of faith every day as we tend to the garden and watch God bring things to life.)
Every day, we make choices—choices that add up o Every day, we make choices—choices that add up over time. White friends, our choices are made in privilege. And our choices can bring good change. Our steps forward may not be perfect (all progress is imperfect), but they are essential. Not because they’re what everyone else is doing or because of fear of man or because they’re the right thing to do right now, but because one day our life will end on this earth. I say this with confidence in Him. We get this one life, and only He knows how long it will be. There will be a whole lot of things we spent time on that didn’t matter (I have my own list of those things) and some that very much did. Things that last longer than us. I have, as a gross understatement, so far to go, but I trust Him. I know His power to change people, including myself. God knows we won’t be perfect, but perfect isn’t the goal -- He wants our hearts. Heart change happens in two ways: either something changes our hearts and our actions follow (God opening Saul’s eyes and changing him to Paul), or our actions change and our hearts follow (Matt 6:21). Either path, changed hearts can change things. I have been listening, specifically to our Black friends here in person. I have let God search my heart and know my ways and He continues to. Don’t be afraid to do the same. In listening to Black friends and their stories, your heart may change, or in taking steps forward, your heart may change (or both). Change CAN happen. You may feel hesitant, but don’t let an imperfect start hold you back from taking your next best step - especially the things done in secret that the world won’t see, but that make a world of difference. And if you feel like your actions could never make a difference, listen to the words of @MorganHarperNichols: “Engage in the long, faithful work.” Small steps (and big leaps of faith) add up. We have an opportunity to choose good change right now. We will not go back to normal, but instead work toward creating something better as we engage in the long, faithful work. It starts with one step.
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