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- 734128 The Room is Never EmptyThere's a version of faith that lives in a building. You walk in on Sunday, sing the songs, hear the message, maybe even feel something shift in your chest. Then you walk out, get in the car, and by Tuesday afternoon you're back to running your week on your own steam — making decisions, carrying stress, fighting battles — like you're the only one in the room. You know that gap between the sanctuary and the rest of your life is where a lot of us quietly live. Not because we stopped believing, but because we started treating God like a scheduled appointment instead of a constant presence. Wake up! The room is never empty. We tend to act like God's presence is something we activate — through the right worship set, the right posture, the right amount of trying. But Scripture describes something much less conditional than that. Desire to be supported and encouraged by other like-minded women? Join us at the Kairos FREE Online Community. https://createyournow.com "Where can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence? If I go up to the heavens, you are there; if I make my bed in the depths, you are there." (Psalm 139:7–8) Notice what this verse doesn't say. It doesn't say God is there when you're prepared for Him. It says there's nowhere you can go — not the mountaintop, not the depths — where He isn't already present. The depths matter here. That's not the polished version of your life. That's the version with the unpaid bills, the diagnosis, the argument you haven't resolved, the thing you're ashamed of. He's already there, before you even think to invite Him. Monday Isn't a Departure From Church — It's Where He Goes With You Jesus didn't tell His disciples He'd be with them during the service. He told them He'd be with them in the sending. "And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age." (Matthew 28:20) "Always" doesn't pause for your commute, your inbox, your parenting fails, or your 2 a.m. worry spiral. It's a promise built for the ordinary stretch of days between Sundays — the part of life that doesn't feel spiritual because nothing dramatic is happening. That's exactly the part it's meant for. The French monk Brother Lawrence wrote about this centuries ago in The Practice of the Presence of God, describing how he came to sense God as much while scrubbing pots in a monastery kitchen as he did in prayer. He wrote: "We need only to recognize God intimately present with us, to address ourselves to Him every moment." He wasn't downgrading worship. He was pointing out that worship was never supposed to be contained to an hour. It was supposed to leak into the sink, the meeting, the grocery list — the unremarkable middle of an unremarkable Tuesday. The K.I.S.S. ~ The room is never empty! The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly — Not Just the Good It's easy to sense God in the good moments. The promotion, the answered prayer, the sunset that stops you in your tracks. It's harder — and far more important — to believe He's there in the bad and the ugly. The moments you'd rather He not witness. "So do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you; I will uphold you with my righteous right hand." (Isaiah 41:10) This isn't a verse about God showing up after you've cleaned yourself up. It's a verse for the fear itself, the dismay itself, the moment you feel weakest and least presentable. He's not waiting outside that moment. He's holding you up inside it. "The Lord himself goes before you and will be with you; he will never leave you nor forsake you. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged." (Deuteronomy 31:8) Never leave. Never forsake. Not "leave when it gets ugly." Not "step back until you've sorted yourself out." The presence is constant precisely because your mess is constant — it's not a disqualifier, it's the very terrain He walks with you through. Stop Fumbling Through Days You Weren't Meant to Carry Alone Here's the shift worth making: your day isn't something you hand God the highlights of afterward. It's something you walk with Him from the first decision to the last. That doesn't mean every day looks like a prayer meeting. It means the presence you sensed on Sunday isn't supposed to evaporate by Monday morning. It's supposed to move with you into the meeting you're dreading, the conversation you've been avoiding, the quiet drive home when nobody's watching and you're tempted to think you're on your own. You're not. You never were. "You make known to me the path of life; you will fill me with joy in your presence." (Psalm 16:11) The room is never empty. Not the boardroom, not the waiting room, not the room in your own head where the hardest conversations happen. He's already there — not waiting for an invitation, but waiting for you to notice He never left. "Be present. Be incredible. Be YOU!!!" #SweetSpirit #CreateYourNow #SoulfulSunday 🔔 Desire to be supported and encouraged by other like-minded women? Join us at the Kairos FREE Online Community. https://createyournow.com TAKE A.I.M. ~ Action Ignites Motivation - This is a complimentary (FREE) coaching call with me. You will discuss your specific situation while gaining tools and strategies to move you forward. (https://form.jotform.com/62988215824163) 🙏 Create Your Now TV on Pray.com (https://pray.com) 🎥 Create Your Now on YouTube (https://youtube.com/createyournow) 🎧 Create Your Now on Spotify, Pandora, and Audible. 🎶 Create Your Now on iHeart Radio (http://www.iheart.com/show/263-Create-Your-Now-Your-Best/) ✍️ YourBestSelfie@CreateYourNow.com Instagram @CreateYourNow @KristianneWargo Twitter @KristianneWargo @CreateYourNow Facebook www.facebook.com/TheKISSCoach www.facebook.com/CreateYourNow Cover Art by Jenny Hamson Photo by Canva.com Music by Mandisa - Overcomer http://www.mandisaofficial.com Song ID: 68209 Song Title: Overcomer Writer(s): Ben Glover, Chris Stevens, David Garcia Copyright © 2013 Meaux Mercy (BMI) Moody Producer Music (BMI) One Songs (ASCAP) Ariose Music (ASCAP) Universal Music - Brentwood Benson Publ. (ASCAP) D Soul Music (ASCAP) (adm. at CapitolCMGPublishing.com) All rights reserved. Used by permission.
- 744127 Are You Sleeping with a Stranger?People change. That's a truth we all accept, or at least give a nod to in passing, yet rarely sit with deeply. Time moves on, circumstances evolve, and the very essence of who we are shifts in subtle and profound ways. So why does it feel so strange with the person you share a bed with—are you sleeping with a stranger? When you lie down beside your spouse tonight, take a moment to ask yourself: Are you sleeping beside the person you once knew, or a stranger who lives in their skin? Desire to be supported and encouraged by other like-minded women? Join us at the Kairos FREE Online Community. https://createyournow.com Change Is the Constant We Ignore Twenty years ago, he might have been leaner, stronger—maybe a bit less wrinkled, less worn by life's battles. Sure, the belly has appeared, and without complaint, I recall how my own body transformed through childbirth, sacrifice etched into every curve. Life demanded it. Bodies changed. Priorities shifted. Ecclesiastes 3:1 reminds us, "For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven." This includes change—unavoidable, unstoppable change that touches us all, including our closest companions. We talk often about the importance of change in personal growth, career, or faith, but rarely do we apply that lens to our marriage. How often do we stop learning about the very person we vowed to love fully? If Life Is Always Changing, Shouldn't We Keep Learning? A spouse is not a fixed entity. They are not the person they were when you said "I do," nor are they wholly the person they will be tomorrow. They are a living story unfolding in real time. So the real question isn't "Are you sleeping with a stranger?" but rather, "Are you still a student of your spouse?" The K.I.S.S. ~ Be a student of your spouse! To grow alongside a partner, here are three ways to stay engaged, curious, and connected: Ask Genuine Questions and Listen Deeply Pause the routine and dig beyond the "How was your day?" Seek to understand fears, dreams, and daily victories. Proverbs 20:5 says, "The purposes of a person's heart are deep waters, but one who has insight draws them out." Reading beneath the surface invites intimacy with the evolving soul beside you. Create New Experiences Together Shared memories are the glue that holds couples through change. Try something new—a hobby, a trip, a project—so you can witness fresh facets of each other. Hebrews 10:24 exhorts us, "And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works." Stirring the pot of your shared life keeps connection vibrant. Practice Daily Gratitude and Affirmation Don't let familiarity breed neglect. Celebrate the quirks, the growth, the tiny victories. Speak words that build up. Ephesians 4:29 commands, "Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up." Affirmation is the language of love that says, "I see you, truly, and I choose you every day." So yes, people grow and change. The person looking back at you in the moonlight may not be the same as twenty years ago, but that's not a reason to turn away or feel strange. It's a call to lean in, to rediscover, to keep learning. Because marriage is not about holding onto a frozen version of someone—it's about walking together through seasons, time, and transformation. Are you sleeping with a stranger? Or are you actively becoming better friends, deeply interested students, and loving partners to the evolving person beside you? Remember the words of 1 Corinthians 13:7: "Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things." Endure the changes, learn the new chapters, and don't settle for anything less than a connection that grows deeper every day. "Be present. Be incredible. Be YOU!!!" #RelationshipBuilders #CreateYourNow #LoveAndMarriage 🔔 Desire to be supported and encouraged by other like-minded women? Join us at the Kairos FREE Online Community. https://createyournow.com TAKE A.I.M. ~ Action Ignites Motivation - This is a complimentary (FREE) coaching call with me. You will discuss your specific situation while gaining tools and strategies to move you forward. (https://form.jotform.com/62988215824163) 🙏 Create Your Now TV on Pray.com (https://pray.com) 🎥 Create Your Now on YouTube (https://youtube.com/createyournow) 🎧 Create Your Now on Spotify, Pandora, and Audible. 🎶 Create Your Now on iHeart Radio (http://www.iheart.com/show/263-Create-Your-Now-Your-Best/) ✍️ YourBestSelfie@CreateYourNow.com Instagram @CreateYourNow @KristianneWargo Twitter @KristianneWargo @CreateYourNow Facebook www.facebook.com/TheKISSCoach www.facebook.com/CreateYourNow Cover Art by Jenny Hamson Photo by Canva.com Music by Mandisa - Overcomer http://www.mandisaofficial.com Song ID: 68209 Song Title: Overcomer Writer(s): Ben Glover, Chris Stevens, David Garcia Copyright © 2013 Meaux Mercy (BMI) Moody Producer Music (BMI) One Songs (ASCAP) Ariose Music (ASCAP) Universal Music - Brentwood Benson Publ. (ASCAP) D Soul Music (ASCAP) (adm. at CapitolCMGPublishing.com) All rights reserved. Used by permission.
- 754126 You're Not Lost, You're Just SightseeingLife doesn't come with a map. It twists and turns, throws detours at us, and sometimes drops us in places we never expected. This reality hits even harder when you're raising kids—because now you're not just navigating your own path; you're guiding little explorers through their own confusing journeys. Overwhelm can take over, leaving you with questions: "Am I doing this right? Are we lost?" But the thing is that you're not lost; you're just sightseeing. When you're sightseeing, you don't panic because you're off-course. You pause. You take in the landscape. You explore surprises. Desire to be supported and encouraged by other like-minded women? Join us at the Kairos FREE Online Community. https://createyournow.com Life's messiness is actually a part of the journey. It's where growth, understanding, and resilience happen. In parenting, that means embracing the unpredictable, learning from every twist, and realizing that every "wrong" turn is actually part of a bigger, unfolding adventure. The Bible reminds us in Proverbs 3:5-6 to "Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight." When you're sightseeing, it's about surrendering control and trusting that the path will become clear. Trust yourself. The K.I.S.S. ~ Trust yourself! Here are three things parents can do to help themselves and their children remember this essential truth: 1. Normalize the Struggle — Share Your Story Honestly Children need to hear that confusion, setbacks, and failures are part of life. When you share your own struggles without shame, you show them it's okay to stumble. As Joel Osteen says, "You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try." Normalizing struggle takes away fear and teaches perseverance. 2. Build "Sight-Seeing" Moments — Create Time to Reflect Together Set aside moments regularly—whether it's a dinner conversation or a quiet walk—where everyone can talk openly about what's hard, what's surprising, and what's inspiring. Help kids (and yourself) see problems as scenes on the journey, not dead ends. Psalm 46:10 says, "Be still, and know that I am God." Teaching stillness invites perspective. 3. Anchor in Hope and Purpose — Find Your Family's North Star Create rituals, mantras, or family verses that remind everyone you're not lost; you're learning and growing. Something simple like, "We keep moving forward, together," or a shared scripture like: Jeremiah 29:11: "For I know the plans I have for you," declares the Lord, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." This can serve as a compass in stormy seasons. Parenting is chaotic, confusing, and sometimes frustrating. But when you reframe your experience as sightseeing rather than getting lost, the fog clears, and you can see where you are. You see the bumps and turns as part of the terrain, not as obstacles to quit over. So when life feels complicated, remember: you're not lost. You're sightseeing. You're learning. You're growing. Keep moving forward, knowing every step matters. "One step at a time leads to miles of greatness." ~ Kristianne Wargo "Be present. Be incredible. Be YOU!!!" #ConfessionsOfAnUpsetMama #CreateYourNow #TodaysParent 🔔 Desire to be supported and encouraged by other like-minded women? Join us at the Kairos FREE Online Community. https://createyournow.com TAKE A.I.M. ~ Action Ignites Motivation - This is a complimentary (FREE) coaching call with me. You will discuss your specific situation while gaining tools and strategies to move you forward. (https://form.jotform.com/62988215824163) 🙏 Create Your Now TV on Pray.com (https://pray.com) 🎥 Create Your Now on YouTube (https://youtube.com/createyournow) 🎧 Create Your Now on Spotify, Pandora, and Audible. 🎶 Create Your Now on iHeart Radio (http://www.iheart.com/show/263-Create-Your-Now-Your-Best/) ✍️ YourBestSelfie@CreateYourNow.com Instagram @CreateYourNow @KristianneWargo Twitter @KristianneWargo @CreateYourNow Facebook www.facebook.com/TheKISSCoach www.facebook.com/CreateYourNow Cover Art by Jenny Hamson Photo by Canva.com Music by Mandisa - Overcomer http://www.mandisaofficial.com Song ID: 68209 Song Title: Overcomer Writer(s): Ben Glover, Chris Stevens, David Garcia Copyright © 2013 Meaux Mercy (BMI) Moody Producer Music (BMI) One Songs (ASCAP) Ariose Music (ASCAP) Universal Music - Brentwood Benson Publ. (ASCAP) D Soul Music (ASCAP) (adm. at CapitolCMGPublishing.com) All rights reserved. Used by permission.
- 764125 It's Okay to Look BackLooking back at your past is natural. It's part of being human. We reflect on where we came from, what we've endured, and how we've grown. But there's a line between glancing at your history and living inside it. Be careful how long you hang out with your past. Like Doris Roberts said, "It's okay to look back, just don't stare." Some people get stuck in their past like it's a favorite hangout spot—even a safe one. They replay old mistakes, clutch grudges, or drown in regrets. Desire to be supported and encouraged by other like-minded women? Join us at the Kairos FREE Online Community. https://createyournow.com This isn't reflection; it's stagnation. And guess what? Stagnation kills momentum. If you're caught in that loop, moving forward becomes nearly impossible. So ask yourself, how does this show up in your life? Are you the person who can't quite let go—rewinding moments that no longer serve you, reluctant to step into what's next? Or are you someone who sees the lessons, collects the blessings, and moves on with intention? The K.I.S.S. ~ It's okay to look back, just don't stare! Because here's the deal: To become who you're meant to be, you have to stop hanging out where the failures and disappointments live. Those places are traps disguised as comfort zones. The longer you stay, the harder it is to break free. And the cost? Your future self never gets the chance to thrive. Looking back is fine—it's healthy even, when it fuels learning and gratitude. But staring? That's a slow drag into darkness. Don't get caught there. Use your past as a mirror, not a jail cell. Take a glance, learn what you must, then pivot your eyes forward. You're not your past, and your past does not define you. You are who you decide to become now. So keep moving. Don't get locked in rooms of memory and misery. Look back long enough to pick up the keys, then be ready to take the next step. "One step at a time leads to miles of greatness." ~ Kristianne Wargo It's okay to look back. Just don't stare. "Be present. Be incredible. Be YOU!!!" #Inspiration #CreateYourNow #DailyMotivation 🔔 Desire to be supported and encouraged by other like-minded women? Join us at the Kairos FREE Online Community. https://createyournow.com TAKE A.I.M. ~ Action Ignites Motivation - This is a complimentary (FREE) coaching call with me. You will discuss your specific situation while gaining tools and strategies to move you forward. (https://form.jotform.com/62988215824163) 🙏 Create Your Now TV on Pray.com (https://pray.com) 🎥 Create Your Now on YouTube (https://youtube.com/createyournow) 🎧 Create Your Now on Spotify, Pandora, and Audible. 🎶 Create Your Now on iHeart Radio (http://www.iheart.com/show/263-Create-Your-Now-Your-Best/) ✍️ YourBestSelfie@CreateYourNow.com Instagram @CreateYourNow @KristianneWargo Twitter @KristianneWargo @CreateYourNow Facebook www.facebook.com/TheKISSCoach www.facebook.com/CreateYourNow Cover Art by Jenny Hamson Photo by Canva.com Music by Mandisa - Overcomer http://www.mandisaofficial.com Song ID: 68209 Song Title: Overcomer Writer(s): Ben Glover, Chris Stevens, David Garcia Copyright © 2013 Meaux Mercy (BMI) Moody Producer Music (BMI) One Songs (ASCAP) Ariose Music (ASCAP) Universal Music - Brentwood Benson Publ. (ASCAP) D Soul Music (ASCAP) (adm. at CapitolCMGPublishing.com) All rights reserved. Used by permission.
- 774124 Put the Phone DownWe live in a world wired for distraction. Endless notifications, the addictive drag of social media feeds, and the constant buzz of other people's highlight reels can pull us from what truly matters. We wonder why we feel stuck—trapped in what has happened, fixated on what didn't work, and overwhelmed by the noise of life. But here's the brutal truth: if the past leads your present, you're not moving forward—you're treading water. Put the phone down. Stop scrolling through other people's curated moments, the endless barrage of "perfect" lives. Desire to be supported and encouraged by other like-minded women? Join us at the Kairos FREE Online Community. https://createyournow.com These images and updates aren't your story. They're a detour. They distract you from the one GPS signal that matters — your own sense of direction. Remember those early Garmin GPS devices? Back then, missing a turn meant a frustrating, slow reroute. You often had to pull over, let the device reset before finding a new path. It wasn't instant, but it taught one unmistakable lesson: you can't keep moving forward if you don't take a pause to recalibrate. Life is the same. If you're constantly looking side to side, comparing and doubting, the present moment—the place where progress actually happens—slips through your fingers. So, how do you reroute and refocus on where you're truly headed? Reconnect with who you are and who you are becoming. The K.I.S.S. ~ Reconnect with yourself! If you are one who is not willing to know yourself, how can you know others? Here are three ways to reconnect with yourself and the direction you're becoming: Silence the noise – unplug regularly. Psalm 46:10 says, "Be still, and know that I am God." Stillness is a powerful reset. Unplugging from phones and distractions allows you to listen to the quiet voice inside, to your values and vision. When you remove the noise, clarity emerges. Focus on one step at a time – ditch multitasking. Proverbs 4:25 urges us, "Let your eyes look directly forward, and your gaze be straight before you." Focus moves mountains. Don't let your attention bounce side to side like a shaky GPS. Keep your eyes on your own road, your own next step, no matter how small. Anchor your identity beyond the past. Philippians 3:13 reminds us, "One thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead." Don't get stuck replaying mistakes or missed chances. Your past does not own your future. You are becoming, always becoming. Putting your phone down is not just about disconnecting from technology—it's about reconnecting with purpose. "When you stop being a passenger in someone else's story, you take the wheel of your own." ~ Kristianne Wargo The present is where your life unfolds, not in the rewind of failures or the highlight reels of others. The call is simple but urgent: stop the endless scroll, pull over if you must, then reroute with intention. Your future is waiting on the other side of your focus. Don't let it slip away because your eyes kept wandering. Put the phone down. Look ahead. Move forward. "Be present. Be incredible. Be YOU!!!" #WellspringWednesday #CreateYourNow #HealthAndWellness 🔔 Desire to be supported and encouraged by other like-minded women? Join us at the Kairos FREE Online Community. https://createyournow.com TAKE A.I.M. ~ Action Ignites Motivation - This is a complimentary (FREE) coaching call with me. You will discuss your specific situation while gaining tools and strategies to move you forward. (https://form.jotform.com/62988215824163) 🙏 Create Your Now TV on Pray.com (https://pray.com) 🎥 Create Your Now on YouTube (https://youtube.com/createyournow) 🎧 Create Your Now on Spotify, Pandora, and Audible. 🎶 Create Your Now on iHeart Radio (http://www.iheart.com/show/263-Create-Your-Now-Your-Best/) ✍️ YourBestSelfie@CreateYourNow.com Instagram @CreateYourNow @KristianneWargo Twitter @KristianneWargo @CreateYourNow Facebook www.facebook.com/TheKISSCoach www.facebook.com/CreateYourNow Cover Art by Jenny Hamson Photo by Canva.com Music by Mandisa - Overcomer http://www.mandisaofficial.com Song ID: 68209 Song Title: Overcomer Writer(s): Ben Glover, Chris Stevens, David Garcia Copyright © 2013 Meaux Mercy (BMI) Moody Producer Music (BMI) One Songs (ASCAP) Ariose Music (ASCAP) Universal Music - Brentwood Benson Publ. (ASCAP) D Soul Music (ASCAP) (adm. at CapitolCMGPublishing.com) All rights reserved. Used by permission.
- 784123 Get Through TodayIn a world buzzing with endless tasks, deadlines, and distractions, it's easy to get caught up in the chaos of what's next. We pile on to-do lists, strategize for tomorrow's meetings, plan meals, manage errands, and somehow forget the most important moment—the present. The secret isn't to conquer every challenge at once, but to zero in on what calls for your attention right now. The goal is simple: get through today. Matthew 6:34 says— "Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own." Desire to be supported and encouraged by other like-minded women? Join us at the Kairos FREE Online Community. https://createyournow.com That's not just spiritual fluff. It's a hard-won life strategy for sanity. Tomorrow, with all its uncertainties and "what ifs," will arrive on its own timetable. It doesn't need your preseason anxiety, your mental wrestling matches, or your checklist before its time. So why waste your headspace tangled in worries about a future that is not yet here? Why exhaust your emotional reserves on problems that don't belong to today? Level your mental field until you can clearly spot what truly demands your focus right in this moment. The K.I.S.S. ~ Get through today! This past Sunday, I recently watched the Wimbledon Men's Championship final, where Jannik Sinner (Italy) and Alexander Zverev (Germany) kept their eyes locked on their own games—not on each other. They weren't distracted by what their opponent was doing. Their commitment was singular: every ball, every serve, every return. That sharp focus created an epic match, not full of frantic risk-taking, but of precision and presence. If you try to look too far ahead in tennis, you'll miss the ball. Similarly, in life, when we fixate on distant problems or future stress, we stumble over what's right in front of us. Sound familiar? We often chase timelines that don't align with reality, burdening ourselves with worries tomorrow will solve, and losing grip on today. But the here and now is what actually counts. Get through today. Answer the call of what's immediate. Clear the clutter of tomorrow's "what ifs" and yesterday's burdens. Your power lives in this moment—neither a step behind nor a step ahead. Because you can't create your now while living in someone else's timeline. Get through today. That's where your focus belongs. That's where your action matters. That's where progress begins. No fancy hacks. No grand plans for later. Just this: handle today well, and tomorrow will meet you ready. "Be present. Be incredible. Be YOU!!!" #Inspiration #CreateYourNow #DailyMotivation 🔔 Desire to be supported and encouraged by other like-minded women? Join us at the Kairos FREE Online Community. https://createyournow.com TAKE A.I.M. ~ Action Ignites Motivation - This is a complimentary (FREE) coaching call with me. You will discuss your specific situation while gaining tools and strategies to move you forward. (https://form.jotform.com/62988215824163) 🙏 Create Your Now TV on Pray.com (https://pray.com) 🎥 Create Your Now on YouTube (https://youtube.com/createyournow) 🎧 Create Your Now on Spotify, Pandora, and Audible. 🎶 Create Your Now on iHeart Radio (http://www.iheart.com/show/263-Create-Your-Now-Your-Best/) ✍️ YourBestSelfie@CreateYourNow.com Instagram @CreateYourNow @KristianneWargo Twitter @KristianneWargo @CreateYourNow Facebook www.facebook.com/TheKISSCoach www.facebook.com/CreateYourNow Cover Art by Jenny Hamson Photo by Canva.com Music by Mandisa - Overcomer http://www.mandisaofficial.com Song ID: 68209 Song Title: Overcomer Writer(s): Ben Glover, Chris Stevens, David Garcia Copyright © 2013 Meaux Mercy (BMI) Moody Producer Music (BMI) One Songs (ASCAP) Ariose Music (ASCAP) Universal Music - Brentwood Benson Publ. (ASCAP) D Soul Music (ASCAP) (adm. at CapitolCMGPublishing.com) All rights reserved. Used by permission.
- 794122 What If You Lowered the Bar?How much of your time is wasted feeling overwhelmed while trying to do everything with excellence? Excellence is always great. But maybe good is enough. Expectations are hard to reach, especially when you set the bar high for absolutely everything. So what if you lowered the bar? Standards are a double-edged sword. They can work to your advantage. They push you to grow, to care about your output, to take pride in what you produce. But standards can also become a stumbling block — one that holds you hostage to procrastination and overwhelm. Desire to be supported and encouraged by other like-minded women? Join us at the Kairos FREE Online Community. https://createyournow.com But here's something to seriously consider: some things done good are enough. Not everything needs to be excellent. Look at how you prioritize your to-do list right now. If everything on it is equally important, how do you ever actually get anything done? No wonder you're so stressed out. When every task is a ten out of ten, you have no way to know where to spend your best energy — so you either freeze, or you burn out trying to be excellent at everything at once. The fix isn't working harder. It's deciding, on purpose, where excellence actually matters — and where good enough will do just fine. At some point, it's a good idea to start prioritizing what really matters. The K.I.S.S. ~ Prioritize what matters! And this isn't that hard. You just have to be willing to do it and not get trapped in the old habits that isolate you from what matters. Excellence (or perfection) can be an asset to your every day, so long as you're okay with "good is enough" at times. 3 Ways to Prioritize What Really Matters 1. Sort Your Tasks by Impact, Not by Urgency Urgency screams the loudest, but it isn't the same as importance. Before you start your day, ask of each task: If this were done at a "good" level instead of a "perfect" level, would anyone notice — or would anything actually break? If the honest answer is no, that task doesn't need your best hours or your best energy. Save your excellence for the handful of things that truly move the needle — the ones tied to your goals, your relationships, or your reputation. Everything else can be handled competently and moved off your plate. 2. Ask "What's the Real Cost of Perfect Here?" Before you polish something for the fifth time, pause and calculate the trade-off. Every extra hour spent perfecting a low-stakes task is an hour stolen from something that actually deserved your excellence — or from your own rest. Give yourself permission to ask: Is this a "museum piece" or a "moving piece"? A museum piece is something people will study closely and remember — a client proposal, a keynote, a piece of writing with your name on it. That deserves excellence. A moving piece just needs to get you to the next step — an internal email, a rough draft, a first pass. That only needs to be good. 3. Set a Time Limit Before You Start, Not After You're Stuck Overwhelm often creeps in because a task has no boundary. Without a stopping point, "good" quietly turns into "let me just fix one more thing," and one more thing becomes an hour you didn't have. Before you begin a lower-priority task, decide in advance how much time it earns — fifteen minutes, thirty minutes, an hour — and treat that limit as the finish line, not a suggestion. When the timer's up, it's done. This one shift alone can free up hours of your week that used to disappear into invisible perfectionism. The Bottom Line Lowering the bar isn't about lowering your standards for everything. It's about being honest with yourself about where excellence is actually required — and giving yourself permission to let "good" be good enough everywhere else. Your best energy is a limited resource. Spend it where it counts, and watch how much lighter — and how much more productive — your days become. "Be present. Be incredible. Be YOU!!!" #MindsetMonday #CreateYourNow #PersonalDevelopment 🔔 Desire to be supported and encouraged by other like-minded women? Join us at the Kairos FREE Online Community. https://createyournow.com TAKE A.I.M. ~ Action Ignites Motivation - This is a complimentary (FREE) coaching call with me. You will discuss your specific situation while gaining tools and strategies to move you forward. (https://form.jotform.com/62988215824163) 🙏 Create Your Now TV on Pray.com (https://pray.com) 🎥 Create Your Now on YouTube (https://youtube.com/createyournow) 🎧 Create Your Now on Spotify, Pandora, and Audible. 🎶 Create Your Now on iHeart Radio (http://www.iheart.com/show/263-Create-Your-Now-Your-Best/) ✍️ YourBestSelfie@CreateYourNow.com Instagram @CreateYourNow @KristianneWargo Twitter @KristianneWargo @CreateYourNow Facebook www.facebook.com/TheKISSCoach www.facebook.com/CreateYourNow Cover Art by Jenny Hamson Photo by Canva.com Music by Mandisa - Overcomer http://www.mandisaofficial.com Song ID: 68209 Song Title: Overcomer Writer(s): Ben Glover, Chris Stevens, David Garcia Copyright © 2013 Meaux Mercy (BMI) Moody Producer Music (BMI) One Songs (ASCAP) Ariose Music (ASCAP) Universal Music - Brentwood Benson Publ. (ASCAP) D Soul Music (ASCAP) (adm. at CapitolCMGPublishing.com) All rights reserved. Used by permission.
- 804121 Live Where God is Growing YouIt's tempting to live in a state of "almost"—almost ready, almost fulfilled, almost free. We tell ourselves that real life will start when circumstances change, when prayers get answers, when doors finally open. But in the process, we miss what God is actively doing right here, right now, in the soil beneath our feet. So much of your energy gets wasted longing for what should be that you fail to live where God is growing you. If you find yourself watching time slip away with hope pinned on some future moment, don't wait to live. Live where God is growing you. Desire to be supported and encouraged by other like-minded women? Join us at the Kairos FREE Online Community. https://createyournow.com Growth Happens in the Now—Not "Someday" Ecclesiastes 3:1 says, "There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens." Every season has a purpose. Growth doesn't take a rain check until life looks perfect—it is happening amidst the trials, the waiting, and the everyday grind. James 1:2-4 adds, "Consider it pure joy when you face trials… because the testing of your faith produces perseverance. Let perseverance finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything." In other words, the hard stretches are not detours, they're the path. Why We Miss Growth in Our Current Place We often fixate on unmet desires or delayed answers. We see only the "not yet" and overlook the "right here." That's the danger of getting stuck on "should be." It blinds us to the lessons God is unfolding in real time. Like a gardener who prunes branches so fruit grows better, God's pruning in your current place may be uncomfortable but necessary. Consider Joseph, sold into slavery and imprisoned, yet God was growing him every step of the way. It wasn't until those trials were complete that he was positioned to lead and save nations (Genesis 37-50). Joseph's story isn't about waiting for a random break—it's about living faithfully where God grows you, even through hardship. The K.I.S.S. ~ Live where God is growing you! How to Live Where God Is Growing You 1. Recognize the Season You're In Stop waiting for a clearer sign or a perfect moment. Ask: What lessons is God teaching me right now? What is this season developing in my character, faith, or skills? 2. Practice Faithful Obedience in Small Ways Growth often happens in everyday faithfulness, not only in big leaps. Like David tended sheep long before becoming king, your current role might be preparing you for greater responsibility. 3. Reframe Your Perspective on Trials Instead of resisting struggle, see it as a sign that God is shaping you. Romans 5:3-4 says, "We also glory in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope." 4. Stay Present in Prayer and Gratitude Rather than begging God for "better" or "different," thank Him for what He is doing now. Prayer isn't just asking—it's a conversation that fuels acceptance and awareness. 5. Look for Fruit, Not Just Change Growth isn't always flashy. It may show up as deeper patience, stronger faith, or new wisdom. Celebrate those victories in the present. You are not in a holding pattern waiting for God to "do something." You are being grown, shaped, and equipped right now. The invitation is simple but powerful: live where God is growing you. Engage fully where He has placed you, and trust that the unseen work in this soil will bear fruit worth far more than you imagine. As Oswald Chambers said, "We are all called to be disciples of Christ, not admirers." Don't admire your situation from the sidelines. Live in it. Grow in it. Walk with God through it. You've got what it takes. Now step into the place where God is growing you. "Be present. Be incredible. Be YOU!!!" #SweetSpirit #CreateYourNow #SoulfulSunday 🔔 Desire to be supported and encouraged by other like-minded women? Join us at the Kairos FREE Online Community. https://createyournow.com TAKE A.I.M. ~ Action Ignites Motivation - This is a complimentary (FREE) coaching call with me. You will discuss your specific situation while gaining tools and strategies to move you forward. (https://form.jotform.com/62988215824163) 🙏 Create Your Now TV on Pray.com (https://pray.com) 🎥 Create Your Now on YouTube (https://youtube.com/createyournow) 🎧 Create Your Now on Spotify, Pandora, and Audible. 🎶 Create Your Now on iHeart Radio (http://www.iheart.com/show/263-Create-Your-Now-Your-Best/) ✍️ YourBestSelfie@CreateYourNow.com Instagram @CreateYourNow @KristianneWargo Twitter @KristianneWargo @CreateYourNow Facebook www.facebook.com/TheKISSCoach www.facebook.com/CreateYourNow Cover Art by Jenny Hamson Photo by Canva.com Music by Mandisa - Overcomer http://www.mandisaofficial.com Song ID: 68209 Song Title: Overcomer Writer(s): Ben Glover, Chris Stevens, David Garcia Copyright © 2013 Meaux Mercy (BMI) Moody Producer Music (BMI) One Songs (ASCAP) Ariose Music (ASCAP) Universal Music - Brentwood Benson Publ. (ASCAP) D Soul Music (ASCAP) (adm. at CapitolCMGPublishing.com) All rights reserved. Used by permission.
- 814120 Reveal My Own HeartMarriage is often painted as a dance of two individuals growing together. But too often, that dance becomes a blame game in which one partner points out what the other isn't doing, expecting change to come from outside rather than from within. We demand more from our spouses—more attention, more effort, more affection—while neglecting the vital question: what am I bringing to this table? Reveal my own heart. Imagine if, instead of scrutinizing your spouse's shortcomings, you first took a long, hard look at your own heart—the good, the bad, and the ugly. Desire to be supported and encouraged by other like-minded women? Join us at the Kairos FREE Online Community. https://createyournow.com What would you find? How would that honest self-examination reshape the way you see yourself and your marriage? "Search me, O God, and know my heart! Try me and know my thoughts!" (Psalm 139:23). This cry from the Psalmist is a powerful call to self-examination. It invites us not to settle for surface-level fixes but to reveal what's going on deep inside. Revealing your own heart means acknowledging the messy parts—the impatience, the resentment, the blind spots—and being willing to clean those up first. Marriage isn't about keeping score; it demands work. And that work starts with yourself. Pointing fingers doesn't heal wounds; it tends to widen the gap. Proverbs 20:5 says, "The purposes of a person's heart are deep waters, but one who has insight draws them out." Before pulling issues out in your spouse, dive deep into your own intentions and attitudes. The K.I.S.S. ~ Reveal your own heart! So, what does it look like to reveal your own heart in a way that positively impacts your marriage? 1. Own Your Faults, Don't Hide Them Too many spouses shy away from vulnerability, fearing judgment or rejection. But genuine love grows in the soil of honesty. Start by saying aloud or writing down what you struggle with. Whether it's pride, impatience, or neglect, naming the problem strips it of its power. Jesus taught, "Why do you see the speck that is in your brother's eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye?" (Matthew 7:3). Own your logs before trying to pluck specks. 2. Choose Empathy Over Judgment Once you see your own flaws, it becomes harder to harshly judge your spouse's. Recognize that your partner wrestles with their own battles, just as you do. Empathy propels understanding, not criticism. When conflict arises, pause to ask, "What am I missing about their experience?" As 1 Corinthians 13:4 reminds us, "Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude." Revealing your heart means softening it toward your spouse. 3. Commit to Small, Daily Acts of Change Revealing your heart isn't a one-time confession; it's a continual process of growth. Set daily intentions that reflect the person you want to be in your marriage—whether it's listening more, speaking less harshly, or simply showing gratitude. Change starts small but compounds over time. Consider the words of Dallas Willard: "Grace is not opposed to effort; it is opposed to earning." Own your role, put in the work, and rest in the grace that covers imperfection. When both spouses begin to reveal their hearts, the marriage shifts from a battlefield to a sanctuary. You stop demanding that your spouse be different and instead embark on a shared journey in which both work on becoming better partners. So here's the brutal truth: no one else can fix your marriage. The change starts with you. The moment you reveal your own heart, cracks begin to mend, and real connection becomes possible. You've got the power to change your story. Stop looking for a spouse who's "more" and start being the spouse who shows up fully—all wounds, all courage, all heart. "Be present. Be incredible. Be YOU!!!" #RelationshipBuilders #CreateYourNow #LoveAndMarriage 🔔 Desire to be supported and encouraged by other like-minded women? Join us at the Kairos FREE Online Community. https://createyournow.com TAKE A.I.M. ~ Action Ignites Motivation - This is a complimentary (FREE) coaching call with me. You will discuss your specific situation while gaining tools and strategies to move you forward. (https://form.jotform.com/62988215824163) 🙏 Create Your Now TV on Pray.com (https://pray.com) 🎥 Create Your Now on YouTube (https://youtube.com/createyournow) 🎧 Create Your Now on Spotify, Pandora, and Audible. 🎶 Create Your Now on iHeart Radio (http://www.iheart.com/show/263-Create-Your-Now-Your-Best/) ✍️ YourBestSelfie@CreateYourNow.com Instagram @CreateYourNow @KristianneWargo Twitter @KristianneWargo @CreateYourNow Facebook www.facebook.com/TheKISSCoach www.facebook.com/CreateYourNow Cover Art by Jenny Hamson Photo by Canva.com Music by Mandisa - Overcomer http://www.mandisaofficial.com Song ID: 68209 Song Title: Overcomer Writer(s): Ben Glover, Chris Stevens, David Garcia Copyright © 2013 Meaux Mercy (BMI) Moody Producer Music (BMI) One Songs (ASCAP) Ariose Music (ASCAP) Universal Music - Brentwood Benson Publ. (ASCAP) D Soul Music (ASCAP) (adm. at CapitolCMGPublishing.com) All rights reserved. Used by permission.
- 824119 The Gift of HomeParents have so many responsibilities besides raising their children. And when everything gets a little out of hand, it's easy to feel overwhelmed as if you're the worst parent ever, barely keeping your head above water, wondering if you're failing your children. But you are doing the best you can. What matters most isn't perfection—it's what you pour into your children every single day. That is the gift of home. Home is more than walls and furniture. It's the sanctuary your children carry in their hearts, shaped by your presence, your love, and your teaching. Desire to be supported and encouraged by other like-minded women? Join us at the Kairos FREE Online Community. https://createyournow.com Amid the busyness of life, don't underestimate your superpowers as a parent. Your gift may look different than you imagined, but it is no less powerful. Overwhelm doesn't have to define your story. You are given—right now—the incredible gift of home. So what can you do to make sure your children truly experience that gift? It all starts with presence. The K.I.S.S. ~ Be present! Be there in your actions, words, and love. It's the simplest yet most profound show 'n tell. 1. Show Them with Your Actions Children learn far more from what they observe than what they're told. "Children see, children do." When you demonstrate kindness, patience, and integrity, you're building their blueprint for life. As the book of Proverbs says, "Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it." (Proverbs 22:6) Your daily example is the foundation of the gift you give. 2. Teach Them with Your Words Words carry power—whether they lift or they break, they shape identity and character. Speak encouragement, wisdom, and truth into your children's lives. Remind them of their worth, their potential, and the strength you see in them. "Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in your sight." (Psalm 19:14) Your intentional teaching equips them for the battles ahead and comforts them in the struggles now. 3. Love Them with Your Whole Heart Love isn't always grand gestures; sometimes it's the quiet devotion in the middle of the chaos. Love them fully and consistently, even on the days you're exhausted or frustrated. The apostle Paul reminds us that "Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude." (1 Corinthians 13:4) This wholehearted love is the anchor they will return to again and again, long after childhood. To parents feeling the weight of the world, remember this: Your presence is the greatest present. Your love is the shelter your children need. Your teaching is the compass they will trust. You've got this—even if it looks a little different than you expected. You hold the gift of home in your hands, and that gift is everything. "Be present. Be incredible. Be YOU!!!" #ConfessionsOfAnUpsetMama #CreateYourNow #TodaysParent 🔔 Desire to be supported and encouraged by other like-minded women? Join us at the Kairos FREE Online Community. https://createyournow.com TAKE A.I.M. ~ Action Ignites Motivation - This is a complimentary (FREE) coaching call with me. You will discuss your specific situation while gaining tools and strategies to move you forward. (https://form.jotform.com/62988215824163) 🙏 Create Your Now TV on Pray.com (https://pray.com) 🎥 Create Your Now on YouTube (https://youtube.com/createyournow) 🎧 Create Your Now on Spotify, Pandora, and Audible. 🎶 Create Your Now on iHeart Radio (http://www.iheart.com/show/263-Create-Your-Now-Your-Best/) ✍️ YourBestSelfie@CreateYourNow.com Instagram @CreateYourNow @KristianneWargo Twitter @KristianneWargo @CreateYourNow Facebook www.facebook.com/TheKISSCoach www.facebook.com/CreateYourNow Cover Art by Jenny Hamson Photo by Canva.com Music by Mandisa - Overcomer http://www.mandisaofficial.com Song ID: 68209 Song Title: Overcomer Writer(s): Ben Glover, Chris Stevens, David Garcia Copyright © 2013 Meaux Mercy (BMI) Moody Producer Music (BMI) One Songs (ASCAP) Ariose Music (ASCAP) Universal Music - Brentwood Benson Publ. (ASCAP) D Soul Music (ASCAP) (adm. at CapitolCMGPublishing.com) All rights reserved. Used by permission.
- 834118 Welcome the Unknown as a DoorwayStanding on the edge of something new can be terrifying. The unknown stretches before you like a vast, uncharted ocean, and self-doubt is the anchor that threatens to keep you stuck on familiar shores. But waiting for certainty is waiting to stay stuck. If you want a life that matters, you have to learn to welcome the unknown as a doorway, not a detour. History—and countless stories—show that greatness rarely arrives wrapped in comfort and clarity. Instead, it strides in wearing uncertainty like armor and possibility like a weapon. Desire to be supported and encouraged by other like-minded women? Join us at the Kairos FREE Online Community. https://createyournow.com "For I know the plans I have for you," declares the Lord, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." — Jeremiah 29:11 God's got you, even when the path looks blurry or the outcome is invisible. Those "unknowns" aren't roadblocks; they're just the space where your faith and courage meet. Imagine if the greatest moments in life only happened when everything was guaranteed. You'd never fall in love, start a business, switch careers, or step onto a new stage. You'd never grow. Here's why stepping into the unknown is your best move: The Unknown Is Where Growth Lives Growth is messy, unpredictable, and uncomfortable. But without it, you are exactly where you were yesterday. If growth scares you, cling to this: the moment you refuse to move is the moment you stay small. Faith Is Your Ultimate Safety Net Doubts gnaw at every human. But faith—this rooted, unshakable trust—carries you when doubt screams the loudest. It's not about having all the answers; it's about having a guide who walks with you, even when the road turns. The K.I.S.S. ~ Welcome the unknown as a doorway! "Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight." — Proverbs 3:5-6 Opportunity Lives Beyond Fear Fear is a natural response, but it's a liar's game. It puffs up what's at risk and shrinks what's possible. When you dare to act despite fear, you take the power away from it. Suddenly, the unknown becomes your ally, not your enemy. You're Not Alone in This Journey God's presence is constant. When you fall, He lifts you. When you don't know the next step, He lights the way. When you feel overwhelmed, He offers peace. "So do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you; I will uphold you with my righteous right hand." — Isaiah 41:10 Here's your call to action: Stop letting the fear of the unknown fence you in. Start seeing it as a launching pad. Don't wait for perfect clarity or the "right" moment. The moment is now. Take the leap believing that no matter what happens, you are held. Remember: You're not walking into the dark. You're stepping into possibility—with God as your steady light. Your future isn't shrouded in mystery; it's wrapped in promise. So rise up. Step forward. "One step at a time leads to miles of greatness." ~ Kristianne Wargo And on your journey, don't ever forget that God's got you!! "Be present. Be incredible. Be YOU!!!" #Inspiration #CreateYourNow #DailyMotivation 🔔 Desire to be supported and encouraged by other like-minded women? Join us at the Kairos FREE Online Community. https://createyournow.com TAKE A.I.M. ~ Action Ignites Motivation - This is a complimentary (FREE) coaching call with me. You will discuss your specific situation while gaining tools and strategies to move you forward. (https://form.jotform.com/62988215824163) 🙏 Create Your Now TV on Pray.com (https://pray.com) 🎥 Create Your Now on YouTube (https://youtube.com/createyournow) 🎧 Create Your Now on Spotify, Pandora, and Audible. 🎶 Create Your Now on iHeart Radio (http://www.iheart.com/show/263-Create-Your-Now-Your-Best/) ✍️ YourBestSelfie@CreateYourNow.com Instagram @CreateYourNow @KristianneWargo Twitter @KristianneWargo @CreateYourNow Facebook www.facebook.com/TheKISSCoach www.facebook.com/CreateYourNow Cover Art by Jenny Hamson Photo by Canva.com Music by Mandisa - Overcomer http://www.mandisaofficial.com Song ID: 68209 Song Title: Overcomer Writer(s): Ben Glover, Chris Stevens, David Garcia Copyright © 2013 Meaux Mercy (BMI) Moody Producer Music (BMI) One Songs (ASCAP) Ariose Music (ASCAP) Universal Music - Brentwood Benson Publ. (ASCAP) D Soul Music (ASCAP) (adm. at CapitolCMGPublishing.com) All rights reserved. Used by permission.
- 844117 Find Your PathIn a world dominated by social media feeds and constant connectivity, becoming the person you are meant to be feels almost impossible. Every scroll hooks you into the comparison trap—measuring your behind-the-scenes against someone else's highlight reel. This endless competition to be what we're not steals our attention and energy. Ask yourself honestly: Where are you right now? Are you living your life, or are you caught up in comparing yourself to others? Find your path! Living someone else's life is confusing. It's debilitating. Desire to be supported and encouraged by other like-minded women? Join us at the Kairos FREE Online Community. https://createyournow.com When your focus shifts to living out a borrowed script, you lose sight of what's right in front of you, what may be tailor-made for your unique journey. As Theodore Roosevelt puts it, "Comparison is the thief of joy." So how do you break free? How do you tune out the noise and find a path that's authentically yours? The K.I.S.S. ~ Find your path! Here are three steps grounded in timeless truth—backed by scripture and psychological insight—that can help you do just that. 1. Focus on Your Unique Design and Calling The Bible reminds us in Psalm 139:14 (NIV), "I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well." This isn't just poetic—it's a life principle. You were crafted with intention and purpose. When you try to fit into someone else's mold, you diminish what makes you unique. Research supports this, too. A study published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology found that individuals who focused on their personal strengths and values reported higher life satisfaction and less envy. Action Step: Identify your core values and strengths. What do you naturally love doing? What brings you a sense of flow? Write these down and revisit often. This anchors you in your own path rather than chasing someone else's. 2. Limit Social Media Consumption and Cultivate Presence It's no secret that social media can accelerate the comparison trap. According to a 2018 University of Pennsylvania study, reducing social media use to 30 minutes a day significantly decreased feelings of loneliness and depression. Less scrolling means a lower chance of falling into the comparison rabbit hole. Scripture also urges us to focus on what's in front of us. Hebrews 12:1 (NIV) encourages believers to "throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us." Action Step: Set boundaries on your social media usage. Build daily practices like journaling, meditation, or gratitude lists that ground you in your reality and blessings. 3. Trust the Journey and Embrace Patience Finding your path isn't a race; it's a process. Proverbs 3:5-6 (NIV) offers wise counsel: "Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight." Science echoes the virtue of patience as linked to well-being. A 2019 study in Personality and Individual Differences found that patient individuals experience greater emotional regulation and satisfaction with life. Action Step: Practice patience and redirect your energy from comparison to curiosity about your own growth. Celebrate small wins and stay open to detours—they often lead to unexpected growth. Final Thoughts The comparison trap is real, and it's draining. But your path is waiting—unique, yours, and worth pursuing. The world has no one like you, and that is your strength. You've got two choices: keep losing yourself in others or step into the story that only you can tell. Find your path by owning your design, limiting distractions, and trusting the process. Your journey isn't about outshining others; it's about shining as you. "Be present. Be incredible. Be YOU!!!" #WellspringWednesday #CreateYourNow #HealthAndWellness 🔔 Desire to be supported and encouraged by other like-minded women? Join us at the Kairos FREE Online Community. https://createyournow.com TAKE A.I.M. ~ Action Ignites Motivation - This is a complimentary (FREE) coaching call with me. You will discuss your specific situation while gaining tools and strategies to move you forward. (https://form.jotform.com/62988215824163) 🙏 Create Your Now TV on Pray.com (https://pray.com) 🎥 Create Your Now on YouTube (https://youtube.com/createyournow) 🎧 Create Your Now on Spotify, Pandora, and Audible. 🎶 Create Your Now on iHeart Radio (http://www.iheart.com/show/263-Create-Your-Now-Your-Best/) ✍️ YourBestSelfie@CreateYourNow.com Instagram @CreateYourNow @KristianneWargo Twitter @KristianneWargo @CreateYourNow Facebook www.facebook.com/TheKISSCoach www.facebook.com/CreateYourNow Cover Art by Jenny Hamson Photo by Canva.com Music by Mandisa - Overcomer http://www.mandisaofficial.com Song ID: 68209 Song Title: Overcomer Writer(s): Ben Glover, Chris Stevens, David Garcia Copyright © 2013 Meaux Mercy (BMI) Moody Producer Music (BMI) One Songs (ASCAP) Ariose Music (ASCAP) Universal Music - Brentwood Benson Publ. (ASCAP) D Soul Music (ASCAP) (adm. at CapitolCMGPublishing.com) All rights reserved. Used by permission.
- 854116 Step Into Your WorthWe all face moments where failure feels oversized, where defeat seems like a script we're doomed to replay. But here's the truth no one tells you enough: you don't have to keep rehearsing your failures. The key to living the life designed for you is to stop replaying what went wrong and instead step into your worth—boldly, unapologetically, relentlessly. Isaiah 40:31 promises, "But those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint." This isn't just encouragement—it's a mandate to move beyond weariness, beyond the weight of past mistakes, and to rise with the power that comes from securing your identity in something unshakable. Desire to be supported and encouraged by other like-minded women? Join us at the Kairos FREE Online Community. https://createyournow.com But you must realize that stepping into your worth isn't a magic switch. It requires belief first. You must believe that you are worth the effort, worth the fight, worth the climb out of the rubble. You are not defined by your failures or setbacks. You are defined by God's divine design poured into you from the very beginning. Think about this: Psalm 139:14 declares, "I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful." There's no marginalizing who you are—you're a masterpiece crafted with purpose, beyond measure. When you act out of this truth, your thoughts align with your worth. Your actions start to echo your value. The K.I.S.S. ~ Step into your worth! That said, it's easy to get tangled in the clutter of doubt, guilt, and self-judgment. That mental noise destroys stability and keeps you stuck in "I can't," "I failed," or worse "I'm not enough." But God's message—and the message you must own—is that you were made for more. You don't have to settle for less than what you were created to be. So today, before the distractions take over and before the weight of yesterday drags you down again, make a choice. Choose to change your outlook. Choose to stop the rehearsals of defeat. Choose what's next. As C.S. Lewis wisely said, "You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream." The past does not have the power to cage you unless you hand it the key. Step into your worth. Move forward with renewed strength, fueled by belief and defined by God's divine design. Stop settling. Start rising. Your story isn't over—not by a long shot. You are worth the effort it takes to get back up. You are made for more. "Be present. Be incredible. Be YOU!!!" #Inspiration #CreateYourNow #DailyMotivation 🔔 Desire to be supported and encouraged by other like-minded women? Join us at the Kairos FREE Online Community. https://createyournow.com TAKE A.I.M. ~ Action Ignites Motivation - This is a complimentary (FREE) coaching call with me. You will discuss your specific situation while gaining tools and strategies to move you forward. (https://form.jotform.com/62988215824163) 🙏 Create Your Now TV on Pray.com (https://pray.com) 🎥 Create Your Now on YouTube (https://youtube.com/createyournow) 🎧 Create Your Now on Spotify, Pandora, and Audible. 🎶 Create Your Now on iHeart Radio (http://www.iheart.com/show/263-Create-Your-Now-Your-Best/) ✍️ YourBestSelfie@CreateYourNow.com Instagram @CreateYourNow @KristianneWargo Twitter @KristianneWargo @CreateYourNow Facebook www.facebook.com/TheKISSCoach www.facebook.com/CreateYourNow Cover Art by Jenny Hamson Photo by Canva.com Music by Mandisa - Overcomer http://www.mandisaofficial.com Song ID: 68209 Song Title: Overcomer Writer(s): Ben Glover, Chris Stevens, David Garcia Copyright © 2013 Meaux Mercy (BMI) Moody Producer Music (BMI) One Songs (ASCAP) Ariose Music (ASCAP) Universal Music - Brentwood Benson Publ. (ASCAP) D Soul Music (ASCAP) (adm. at CapitolCMGPublishing.com) All rights reserved. Used by permission.
- 864115 Defeat Is Just A MindsetFailure and defeat are not the same thing, though we treat them like twins. Failure is an event. It happened, it's done, it's a fact you can point to on a timeline — a match lost, a deal that fell through, a goal that didn't land. Defeat is something else entirely. Defeat is not what happened to you; it's what you decide to do — or not do — afterward. It's less an event and more a mindset, and mindsets, unlike results, are chosen. Defeat is just a mindset. This is the part people miss. Nobody hands you defeat. You're not defeated the moment you lose — you're defeated the moment you stop moving. Defeat isn't the scoreboard. Defeat is what sets in when the scoreboard is over and you decide, consciously or not, that you're not getting back up. It's the silence after the setback where you had a chance to act and chose stillness instead. Desire to be supported and encouraged by other like-minded women? Join us at the Kairos FREE Online Community. https://createyournow.com That's why two people can experience the exact same failure and walk away with completely different outcomes. One treats the loss as information and starts working the next day. The other treats it as a life sentence and never returns to the court, the stage, or the opportunity at all. Same failure. Only one of them is actually defeated — and it wasn't the failure that put him there. It was the absence of a next move. King Solomon captured this distinction three thousand years ago: "For though a righteous man falls seven times, he rises again, but the wicked stumble in times of calamity" (Proverbs 24:16). Look closely at what separates the two people in that verse. It isn't that one falls and the other doesn't — they both encounter hardship. The righteous person falls seven times, same as anyone. The difference is entirely in what happens next: one rises, the other stumbles and stays down. Solomon isn't describing two different levels of misfortune. He's describing two different responses to the same kind of setback — and only one of those responses is defeat. So the real question isn't "how do I avoid failing?" You can't. The real question is: how do you make sure that when failure comes, you don't hand it the extra power of turning into defeat? The K.I.S.S. ~ Take A.I.M.! It's all about moving forward. And with motivation, you keep the momentum going and don't have time to back down or walk away. Here are three things you can do. 1. Refuse to Let the Failure Write Your Identity The first move is the hardest and the most important: you have to catch yourself the moment you start turning a result into a verdict — because that's the exact moment defeat starts to take root. There's a world of difference between saying "I lost" and saying "I'm a loser." One is a sentence describing something that happened. The other is a decision — a quiet, often unconscious one — to let that single result define you going forward. Nobody defeats you with that thought but you. The opponent, the circumstance, the setback only supplies the failure. You supply the meaning you attach to it, and defeat is simply the meaning that says, this is who I am now. Basketball coach John Wooden put it simply: "Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." Read that closely — he's not talking about the failure itself being dangerous. He's saying the danger is in what you do (or refuse to do) afterward. The failure is neutral. Defeat is the choice to let it stay in charge. Ask yourself, right after a setback: Am I processing a result, or am I already writing a story about who I am because of it? Catching that story early is what keeps a bad day from becoming a chosen identity. 2. Trade Rumination for Reflection — Fast Once you've caught yourself before the identity spiral, there's a second trap waiting: staying in the moment of the loss so long that you never actually move past it. This is where defeat quietly builds its case — not through one dramatic decision, but through days and weeks of replaying the same failure without ever converting it into anything useful. Rumination and reflection look similar from the outside — both involve thinking about what went wrong. But rumination loops. It replays the pain without producing a plan. Reflection asks a pointed question and moves on: What is this actually showing me? One keeps you circling the setback. The other treats the setback as a checkpoint you pass through. Thomas Edison, after thousands of failed attempts at the light bulb, reportedly said, "I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." That's a man who refused to sit in the failure long enough for it to calcify into defeat. He extracted the lesson quickly and kept moving — because he understood that lingering, not the failure itself, was the real threat. The apostle Paul modeled the same urgency: "Brothers, I do not consider that I have made it my own. But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead" (Philippians 3:13). Notice the pace of that verse — it doesn't say to eventually move on. It says one thing: forward. Defeat thrives in delay. The longer you stay parked in the failure, the more time it has to convince you to stay there permanently. 3. Act — Because Inaction Is Defeat's Actual Definition Here's the part worth saying plainly: if defeat is a mindset, it is specifically the mindset that stops taking action. You are not defeated by the loss. You are defeated by what you do NOT do after it. Every day you fail to take the next step is a vote for staying down, whether or not you'd ever admit that's what you're doing. This is where most people quietly lose without ever losing again. They'll think about the setback, talk about it, even understand exactly what went wrong — and never actually take the next step. Not because they lack insight, but because taking the step feels riskier than staying still. That stillness feels safe. But it isn't. It's just defeat wearing a slower disguise. Theodore Roosevelt captured the difference between the two paths in his "Man in the Arena" speech: "It is not the critic who counts... The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood... who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly." Notice — the man in the arena might fail again. Roosevelt isn't promising a win. He's drawing the line between the person still in motion and the person who's opted out entirely. Only one of them can be called defeated, and it's not the one still swinging. The step back in doesn't have to be dramatic. Show up to the next practice. Send the next application. Have the hard conversation you avoided the first time. The size of the step matters far less than the fact that it exists. A small action keeps you in the category of "still rising." No action, no matter how understandable the reasons, is what quietly slides you into the category of defeated. The Real Measure of a Comeback Nobody gets to skip failure. It comes for everyone — the prepared and the unprepared, the confident and the anxious, the champion and the rookie. But defeat isn't universal in the same way. Defeat is optional, because defeat isn't the failure — it's the decision to stop after it. Catch the story you're telling about yourself before it hardens into identity. Trade rumination for a quick, honest review instead of camping out in the pain. And above all, act — because the moment you stop moving is the moment defeat actually begins, not the moment you lost. Do those three things, and you'll find that the sting of the setback never had the power on its own. It only ever borrowed its power from what you chose to do next. "Be present. Be incredible. Be YOU!!!" #MindsetMonday #CreateYourNow #PersonalDevelopment 🔔 Desire to be supported and encouraged by other like-minded women? Join us at the Kairos FREE Online Community. https://createyournow.com TAKE A.I.M. ~ Action Ignites Motivation - This is a complimentary (FREE) coaching call with me. You will discuss your specific situation while gaining tools and strategies to move you forward. 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- 874114 The God Who Plants NationsBefore there was a Declaration, there was a design. Before a single word was written on parchment in Philadelphia, before a single boot crossed the Delaware in the dark, before the first shot was fired at Lexington or the last cannon fell silent at Yorktown — there was a God who knew exactly what He was doing. Nations do not rise by accident. People do not awaken to freedom by coincidence. The long, unlikely, breathtaking story of America — of any nation that has ever stood for something greater than itself — does not begin in a room full of men. It begins in the mind and heart of the God who holds all of history in His hands and plants things in the earth that only He can grow; the God who plants nations. This is not a small God. This is not a God who watches from a distance and hopes things work out. This is the God who raises up and brings down, who calls nations into being and calls people out of obscurity, who plants seeds in the hardest soil and brings forth harvests that defy every natural explanation. Desire to be supported and encouraged by other like-minded women? Join us at the Kairos FREE Online Community. https://createyournow.com He has always been this God. He is still this God today. The God Who Moves in Nations Long before America existed, God was already in the business of raising up nations and calling people to rise within them. The book of Daniel, written during one of the darkest seasons of exile in Israel's history, makes a declaration that stops history in its tracks: "He changes times and seasons; he deposes kings and raises up others. He gives wisdom to the wise and knowledge to the discerning." (Daniel 2:21) He changes times and seasons. He deposes kings and raises up others. Not occasionally. Not when circumstances align in His favor. He does this — actively, sovereignly, with full authority over every throne room and parliament and revolution that has ever unfolded on this earth. That means 1776 was not a surprise to God. The Declaration was not a document He scrambled to accommodate into His plans. The men in that room — imperfect, brilliant, desperate, brave — were not operating outside His sight. They were operating inside His story. Paul, standing in the middle of the Areopagus in Athens, made the same claim to a crowd who had built altars to gods they could not name: "From one man he made all the nations, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he marked out their appointed times in history and the boundaries of their lands. God did this so that they would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from any one of us." (Acts 17:26–27) Read that carefully. God marked out the appointed times and the boundaries of nations — not so that nations would become great for their own sake, but so that the people within them would reach out and find Him. The nation is not the point. The nation is the garden. And the garden exists so that something alive can grow in it — people reaching toward the God who planted them there. America at 250 is only extraordinary if we understand who made it possible and why. He Raises Up What He Plants There is a pattern woven through scripture that is impossible to miss once you see it: God consistently chooses the unlikely, plants something in them that looks like nothing from the outside, and then grows it into something that changes the world. He called Abraham out of everything familiar and planted in him the seed of a nation that would bless all nations. He planted courage in a stuttering shepherd named Moses and used him to set an entire people free. He planted a song in a shepherd boy named David and raised him to a throne. He planted a dream in a slave named Joseph, buried it under years of suffering and silence, and grew it into the salvation of a nation. In every case, the planting came before the promise was visible. In every case, the growing happened in seasons that looked, from the outside, like nothing was happening at all. Isaiah understood this rhythm. Writing to a people who had every reason to doubt that God was still working, he delivered words that carry as much oxygen today as they did the day they were spoken: "But those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint." (Isaiah 40:31) Soar. Run. Walk. That progression is not accidental. Sometimes God's call on a life — or a nation — looks like soaring: dramatic, visible, undeniable. Sometimes it looks like running: sustained, purposeful, covering ground. And sometimes it looks like walking: one faithful step after another through terrain that isn't glamorous and seasons that aren't exciting and years when the most spiritual thing you can do is simply refuse to stop. All three are rising. All three are the work of God in a people who have chosen to hope in Him. The K.I.S.S. ~ God plants nations! Planted for a Purpose Bigger Than Yourself The founders sensed — many of them deeply — that what they were building was not theirs alone. They spoke with a frequency and a weight about Providence that goes beyond political rhetoric. George Washington, in his First Inaugural Address, did not credit strategy or brilliance for what had been accomplished. He credited God: "No people can be bound to acknowledge and adore the Invisible Hand which conducts the affairs of men more than those of the United States. Every step by which they have advanced to the character of an independent nation seems to have been distinguished by some token of providential agency." The Invisible Hand. Washington was not a man given to empty sentiment. He had stood in the cold at Valley Forge. He had buried men he loved. He had watched an army survive on the edge of collapse more times than he could count. And looking back over all of it, his conclusion was not that they had been clever enough or strong enough. His conclusion was that Someone else had been holding them. That is the testimony of a man who has been planted by God and lived long enough to recognize the soil he was growing in. Jeremiah heard the same thing directly from God, in words spoken not just to a prophet but to every person God has ever called into something greater than themselves: "Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart; I appointed you as a prophet to the nations." (Jeremiah 1:5) Before you were formed. Before you were born. Before you had accomplished a single thing or proven yourself in any way — God knew you, set you apart, and appointed you. Not because of what you had done, but because of what He had planned. You were not planted by accident. Your life, your family, your generation, your moment in history — none of it is random. You are here on purpose, in a nation that exists on purpose, in a season that God has marked out with full intention. The only question is whether you will rise to what you were planted for. This Is Your Moment to Rise Two hundred and fifty years of American history is, at its deepest root, a story about what happens when God plants something in the earth and calls people to rise within it. It is a story full of flawed people making consequential choices, full of dark seasons that gave way to unexpected harvests, full of generations who had every reason to give up and chose instead to keep growing. It is your story too. Whatever God has planted in you — the dream that won't die, the calling that keeps returning, the sense that you were made for something you haven't fully stepped into yet — that is not wishful thinking. That is a seed from the hand of the One who plants nations, placed with precision into the specific soil of your specific life. He is not finished growing you. He is not finished growing this nation. He is not wringing His hands over the headlines or pacing the floors of heaven wondering if the experiment will hold. He is the God who spoke galaxies into existence and numbers the hairs on your head, and He has not for one moment lost sight of what He planted here or what He intends to grow. Rise up in that. Stand in the full height of what God has called you to be. Tend the garden you have been given — your family, your community, your faith, your freedom — with the confidence of someone who knows the Gardener personally and trusts His hands completely. Because here is the promise that has outlasted every empire, every tyrant, every dark season in the long history of the world: "Being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus." (Philippians 1:6) He began it. He will complete it. In you. In this nation. In this generation. The God who plants nations has not stopped planting. He has not stopped growing. And He is not done with us yet. "Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord, the people he chose for his inheritance." (Psalm 33:12) Rise up, America. The Gardener is still here. "Be present. Be incredible. Be YOU!!!" #SweetSpirit #CreateYourNow #SoulfulSunday 🔔 Desire to be supported and encouraged by other like-minded women? Join us at the Kairos FREE Online Community. https://createyournow.com TAKE A.I.M. ~ Action Ignites Motivation - This is a complimentary (FREE) coaching call with me. 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- 884113 The Garden We Were GivenTwo hundred and fifty years ago, somebody planted something for you. They didn't know your name. They couldn't picture your face. They had no idea what century you'd be born in, what your life would look like, or whether you'd spend this particular July Fourth at a backyard barbecue, watching fireworks from a blanket in the grass, or reading something on your phone while the kids run through a sprinkler out back. They couldn't have imagined any of it. But they planted anyway, the garden we were given. And today — 250 years later, on the semiquincentennial of the most consequential experiment in self-governance the world has ever seen — you are standing in the garden they gave you. Desire to be supported and encouraged by other like-minded women? Join us at the Kairos FREE Online Community. https://createyournow.com The question worth asking on a birthday this significant is not just how did we get here? It's three questions, woven together like the strands of a flag: What did we receive? What did it cost? And what do we owe? What We Received Let's start with the gifts, because gratitude is the right place to begin any celebration. You received the right to say what you believe without disappearing in the night for saying it. You received the freedom to worship — or not worship — according to your own conscience. You received the ability to disagree with your government loudly, publicly, and without fear of a prison cell. You received courts and laws and a system built, however imperfectly, on the idea that no person is above accountability. You received the ability to build a life. To work, to own, to move, to dream, to fail, and to try again. You received a passport that opens more doors than almost any other document on earth. You received amber waves of grain, purple mountain majesties, and a Fourth of July sky that belongs to everyone who calls this place home. These are not small things. In the long sweep of human history, they are extraordinary things — things that billions of people across centuries and continents have lived and died never experiencing. Thomas Jefferson, who understood both the glory and the weight of what they were declaring, framed it this way: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." Unalienable. Not granted by a king. Not loaned by a government. Endowed by a Creator — which means no earthly power has the authority to take them away. That is the gift. Receive it today with open hands and a full heart. What It Cost Gifts of this magnitude do not arrive without a price tag. The Declaration of Independence was not a document — it was a target. The moment those fifty-six men signed their names, they signed their safety away. They knew it. John Adams wrote to Abigail the day after the vote for independence with a mixture of joy and unflinching sobriety: "I am well aware of the toil and blood and treasure that it will cost us to maintain this Declaration... Yet through all the gloom I can see the rays of ravishing light and glory." Toil. Blood. Treasure. He listed them plainly, without flinching, because he was an honest man and he knew the cost was real. And he signed anyway, because the light was worth it. That cost did not end in 1776. It has been paid, and paid again, by every generation that came after. By the soldiers at Gettysburg and Normandy and Chosin and Fallujah. By the mothers who packed lunches and wrote letters and held everything together while someone they loved was far away and in danger. By the first responders who run toward what everyone else runs from. By the teachers, the volunteers, the quiet faithful who never made headlines but never stopped showing up. Freedom has a long receipt. It stretches back 250 years, and it is still being added to today. On a day of celebration, we owe it to all of them to remember that. Not to dampen the joy — the joy is right and good and worth every sparkler and parade and slice of pie. But to let the gratitude run deep enough to include the ones who made today possible. "Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one's life for one's friends." (John 15:13) That verse was not written about soldiers. But it has been lived out by them — and by parents, and firefighters, and a thousand kinds of ordinary people who chose someone else's freedom over their own comfort. Pause today, even briefly, and let their sacrifice land on you. They earned the right to be remembered. The K.I.S.S. ~ Happy Birthday, America! What We Owe Here is where the birthday gets serious for a moment — because 250 years is not just an occasion for looking back. It is a summons to look forward. The founders were remarkably clear-eyed about this. They knew what they were building would only survive if the people who inherited it were willing to tend it. Benjamin Franklin, when asked what kind of government they had produced, reportedly answered with words that have echoed for two and a half centuries: "A republic, if you can keep it." If you can keep it. Four words that turn a gift into a responsibility. A garden given and then neglected does not stay beautiful. It goes to weeds slowly, almost imperceptibly, until one day you look up and realize that what was once tended and flourishing has become something you no longer recognize. The keeping of it — the daily, unglamorous, often thankless work of tending — is not optional. It is the price of the inheritance. So what do we owe? We owe engagement. Showing up, staying informed, participating in the ongoing experiment of self-governance rather than spectating from the sidelines and complaining about the outcome. We owe each other. A nation is not just a government — it is a people. And a people who have stopped seeing each other as neighbors, as fellow inheritors of the same gift, as human beings made in the image of the same God, cannot hold what was given to them. The care of the republic begins with the care of the person standing next to you. We owe the next generation. Just as the founders planted for people they would never meet, we are planting right now for children who will stand where we are standing and look back on what we did with what we were given. What will they find? A garden tended or a garden neglected? A nation strengthened or one that coasted on the courage of people long gone? The Psalmist put it beautifully: "One generation commends your works to another; they tell of your mighty acts." (Psalm 145:4) That passing down — of story, of valor, of faith, of responsibility — is not automatic. It requires intention. It requires people who believe the story is worth telling and the work is worth continuing. Two Hundred Fifty Years of Bloom Think about what has been accomplished in 250 years. A handful of colonies became fifty states stretching from sea to shining sea. A population of three million became a nation of three hundred and thirty million, woven together from every country, culture, and corner of the earth. A fledgling experiment in democracy became the longest-running constitutional republic in history. Men and women born on this soil have fed the world, healed the sick, walked on the moon, and carried a torch of liberty that has lit the way for nations that didn't yet exist when the Declaration was signed. None of it was inevitable. All of it was earned. And all of it — every freedom you will exercise today without a second thought, every right you take for granted because it has always been there, every firework that lights up tonight's sky — all of it traces back to that hot room in Philadelphia, where a group of imperfect, visionary, deeply human people decided that the idea of freedom was worth more than the safety of silence. So tonight, when the first firework climbs into the dark and bursts open over your head in a shower of light, let it mean something more than spectacle. Let it be a spark — the same spark that started all of this. Let it be a root — grown deep through 250 years of sacrifice and faithfulness. Let it be a seed — planted tonight in the hearts of your children, who will carry this forward long after we are gone. Celebrate loudly. Grieve humbly. Tend faithfully. This is the garden we were given. Keep it. "Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord." (Psalm 33:12) Happy Birthday, America. Two hundred and fifty years young — and still becoming. "Be present. Be incredible. Be YOU!!!" #Relationships #CreateYourNow #Inspiration 🔔 Desire to be supported and encouraged by other like-minded women? Join us at the Kairos FREE Online Community. https://createyournow.com TAKE A.I.M. ~ Action Ignites Motivation - This is a complimentary (FREE) coaching call with me. You will discuss your specific situation while gaining tools and strategies to move you forward. 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- 894112 The Home FrontThere are those days when you don't feel like a patriot. Instead, you feel like a referee, a short-order cook, a lost-and-found department for one sock, three chargers, and somebody's retainer. There are evenings when the dinner table looks less like the heartbeat of a nation and more like a negotiation between two very strong-willed people who share your DNA and absolutely refuse to eat what you made. And somewhere in the middle of the dinner, dishes, and dogs, you forget that what you're doing matters. So let's remember together —the home front. The Declaration They Never Tell You About On July 4th, 1776, fifty-six men signed their names to a document that would change the world. We celebrate them every year, and rightly so. Desire to be supported and encouraged by other like-minded women? Join us at the Kairos FREE Online Community. https://createyournow.com But there is another declaration being written — quietly, daily, in kitchens and minivans and bedrooms and backyards all across this country. It doesn't have a single author. It doesn't hang in a museum. It's written in the habits you're building, the values you're repeating, the moments you show up even when you're exhausted and nobody is watching, and nobody is clapping. It's the declaration of your family. And if it had words, it might sound something like this: We hold these truths to be the foundation of our home: that every person under this roof is seen, known, and deeply loved. That we will tell the truth even when it's hard, show up even when it's inconvenient, and choose each other even when it costs us something. That we will fight for this family the way soldiers fight for their country — with everything we have — because the stakes are just as high and the cause is just as worthy. We pledge to these walls, to these people, and to the God who gave them to us, our full hearts, our imperfect best, and our unshakeable commitment to keep trying. That is not a small document. That is the bravest thing most of us will ever write — even if it never gets written down at all. Family Is the Heartbeat of America You want to know the real foundation of this nation? It was never just the Constitution. It was never just the military, the economy, or the institutions. It was always the home. John Adams understood this. One of the most decorated founders in American history credited not a fellow statesman but his own mother for who he became. John Adams is credited with saying the following: "All that I am, my mother made me." Not Congress. Not a university. Not a policy or a program. His mother. Four words that carry the full weight of what happens inside a home when someone decides to take the long view and pour themselves into another human being. Abigail Adams — one of the most remarkable women in American history, who raised children while her husband was away building a nation — wrote to her son John Quincy with words that sound less like a letter and more like a commission: "These are the times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed." Great characters are not formed in easy seasons. They are formed in the hard ones — in the arguing and the correcting and the apologizing and the trying again. They are formed at dinner tables where someone insists on honesty. In bedrooms where someone prays over a sleeping child. In the car, on the way to school, in the ten-minute conversation that the child will remember for the rest of their life and the parent will forget by Tuesday. That's where great characters are made. In your home. By you. You Are on the Front Line Let's be clear about something: a soldier on the front line is not there because it's comfortable. They are there because the thing behind them is worth defending. They plant their feet in hard ground, face what is coming, and hold the line — not for glory, but because they love what's at stake. Moms and dads, that is you. You are not on the sidelines of history. You are not in a supporting role. You are on the front line of the most important battle being fought in America right now — the battle for the hearts, minds, and souls of the next generation. Nobody else can fight it for you. Nobody else has your assignment. The child at your table is not a coincidence. They are your post. The K.I.S.S. ~ The home front declaration! Moses didn't leave this to chance. Before the Israelites entered the promised land, before they built cities or established government or wrote laws, God gave them a charge that started at home: "And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise." (Deuteronomy 6:6–7) When you sit. When you walk. When you lie down. When you rise. In other words — always. In the ordinary, unremarkable, un-photographed moments of daily life. That is where a generation is shaped. That is where a nation is either strengthened or slowly hollowed out. The enemy of the family has always known this. That's why the home is the target. Which means the home must also be the stronghold. The Imperfect Patriot in the Kitchen Here is the confession at the center of all of this: you are going to get it wrong sometimes. You are going to lose your patience on a day when you needed to keep it. You are going to say the thing you can't take back, miss the moment you can't rewind, and go to bed wondering if you're doing any of this right. You are going to have seasons when the family you're building looks nothing like the one you pictured, and the gap between your ideals and your reality will feel embarrassingly wide. Welcome to the front line. It has always been messy here. The founders weren't perfect men. The nation they built was not a perfect nation. But they kept showing up to the vision, kept tending the thing they'd planted, kept believing that the experiment was worth the effort. And 250 years later, we are the evidence that their imperfect faithfulness mattered. Your imperfect faithfulness matters too. The nights you got it wrong and went back to apologize — that's being mom. The days you held the line when it would have been easier to give in — that's being mom. The prayers you've prayed over children who have no idea you're praying for them — that's being mom. The ten-thousand ordinary moments of choosing your family over everything else competing for your attention — that is the declaration of your home, signed in real time, every day. Don't You Dare Underestimate This As America turns 250, we celebrate the generals and the statesmen, the documents and the monuments, all that got us to where we are today. But the truest monuments in this country are not made of marble. They are made of people — people who were raised in homes where someone decided they were worth fighting for. The home is the heartbeat of America. And the heartbeat only keeps beating because someone is tending it. And that someone is you! So on the days when it feels like nothing — when the laundry is unfolded, and the argument is unresolved, and the vision feels very far away — remember that you are not just raising children. You are planting citizens. You are shaping souls. You are writing the next chapter of something that started 250 years ago and depends, in ways you cannot fully see, on what happens inside your four walls. The founders bet everything on a dream they could not guarantee. You are the evidence, though, that it was worth it. Now go be the evidence for the generation coming after you. "As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord." (Joshua 24:15) Don't let this be just a wooden sign hung on a wall. Let it be the home front declaration, and then be willing to sign it every day. "Be present. Be incredible. Be YOU!!!" #ConfessionsOfAnUpsetMama #CreateYourNow #TodaysParent 🔔 Desire to be supported and encouraged by other like-minded women? Join us at the Kairos FREE Online Community. https://createyournow.com TAKE A.I.M. ~ Action Ignites Motivation - This is a complimentary (FREE) coaching call with me. You will discuss your specific situation while gaining tools and strategies to move you forward. (https://form.jotform.com/62988215824163) 🙏 Create Your Now TV on Pray.com (https://pray.com) 🎥 Create Your Now on YouTube (https://youtube.com/createyournow) 🎧 Create Your Now on Spotify, Pandora, and Audible. 🎶 Create Your Now on iHeart Radio (http://www.iheart.com/show/263-Create-Your-Now-Your-Best/) ✍️ YourBestSelfie@CreateYourNow.com Instagram @CreateYourNow @KristianneWargo Twitter @KristianneWargo @CreateYourNow Facebook www.facebook.com/TheKISSCoach www.facebook.com/CreateYourNow Cover Art by Jenny Hamson Photo by Canva.com Music by Mandisa - Overcomer http://www.mandisaofficial.com Song ID: 68209 Song Title: Overcomer Writer(s): Ben Glover, Chris Stevens, David Garcia Copyright © 2013 Meaux Mercy (BMI) Moody Producer Music (BMI) One Songs (ASCAP) Ariose Music (ASCAP) Universal Music - Brentwood Benson Publ. (ASCAP) D Soul Music (ASCAP) (adm. at CapitolCMGPublishing.com) All rights reserved. Used by permission.
- 904111 Plant What You Can't SeeNo farmer has ever watched a seed disappear into the ground and known — truly known — what would come back up. They trust it. They have reason to trust it, built from experience and season and the testimony of every harvest that came before. But trust is not the same as certainty. The farmer plants anyway. The seed goes into dark soil. And then comes the hardest part of any growing season: the waiting. Plant what you can't see. That is where most of us live right now. Not at the spark. Not yet at the bloom. Somewhere in the middle — hands still dirty from the planting, eyes scanning the ground for any sign that something is actually happening beneath the surface. Desire to be supported and encouraged by other like-minded women? Join us at the Kairos FREE Online Community. https://createyournow.com This is not a detour from the story. This is the story. They Planted What They Could Not See In the summer of 1787, the founders gathered again — this time not to declare independence, but to build something that would outlast them. The Constitution they drafted would govern a nation they would never fully see. The freedoms they framed would be exercised by generations not yet born. The "more perfect union" they envisioned was, by their own admission, still becoming. George Washington, who presided over that Constitutional Convention and understood perhaps better than anyone what they were actually doing, reflected on the weight of what they were planting: "The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty and the destiny of the republican model of government are justly considered, perhaps, as deeply, as finally, staked on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people." An experiment. He called it an experiment. Not a guarantee. Not a finished product. A seed in the ground, entrusted to hands that hadn't been born yet — to your hands, and mine. That is an extraordinary act of faith. They planted what they could not see. And 250 years later, we are still living inside the harvest of their courage. You Are Always Planting for Someone Else Here is the part of planting that doesn't get talked about enough: most of what we sow, we will not be the ones to harvest. The tree you plant today will give shade to someone who hasn't been born yet. The faithfulness you practice in private will shape the character of your children in ways you won't fully see for decades. The kindness you extend without applause, the integrity you hold onto when no one is watching, the prayers you pray into what feels like an empty ceiling — all of it is going somewhere, taking root in soil you may never stand on again. Scripture has always understood this. One of the most quietly radical verses in the Old Testament appears in the book of Jeremiah, when God addresses a people living in exile — displaced, discouraged, far from everything familiar. His instruction to them is startling in its ordinariness: "Build houses and live in them; plant gardens and eat their produce... seek the welfare of the city where I have sent you into exile, and pray to the Lord on its behalf, for in its welfare you will find your welfare." (Jeremiah 29:5, 7) Plant gardens. In exile. In the hard season. In the place that doesn't yet feel like home. Not because the harvest is guaranteed. Not because you can see the outcome. But because planting is an act of hope, and hope is an act of resistance against despair. The K.I.S.S. ~ Plant what you can't see! The Courage of the Unfinished There is a particular kind of courage required to begin something you won't finish. It's easier, in a way, to start something you can complete quickly — a project with a clear end date, a goal with a visible finish line, a risk where the outcome will be known by morning. That kind of courage is real, but it's bounded. You can see both ends of it. The harder courage is the long kind. The kind that keeps showing up to something that will take years. The kind that plants in a season of drought and trusts that the rain will come. The kind that hands something unfinished to the next generation and says, here — carry this further than I could. Paul described the endurance of faith this way in his letter to the Galatians: "Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up." (Galatians 6:9) If we do not give up. That phrase is doing a lot of work. It acknowledges that giving up is a real option — that the in-between is long enough and hard enough that quitting is always on the table. And it calls us forward anyway. Not because the harvest is visible yet, but because the planting itself is an act of faithfulness. What Are You Planting? Two hundred fifty years ago, a group of imperfect, visionary, deeply human people planted something in the ground that would take generations to grow. They did it without seeing the outcome. They did it in the middle of a war. They did it knowing they were betting their lives on the possibility of something that had never existed before. You don't have to change the course of a nation to matter. You just have to plant what's in your hands today — faithfully, hopefully, without demanding to see the harvest before you've done the work. The seed you bury today might be a conversation you finally have. A commitment you quietly renew. A dream you stop waiting for permission to pursue. A child you keep showing up for, even in the seasons when it's thankless. A prayer you keep praying, even when the sky feels silent. Plant it anyway. You are not just living your own story. You are planting into the lives of people who will come after you — people who will one day stand in the shade of something you started, without even knowing your name. That is not a small thing. That is, in fact, everything. "One generation commends your works to another; they tell of your mighty acts." (Psalm 145:4) Plant what you can't yet see. Trust the soil. Keep showing up. The harvest has a way of coming exactly when it was always meant to. "Be present. Be incredible. Be YOU!!!" #Inspiration #CreateYourNow #DailyMotivation 🔔 Desire to be supported and encouraged by other like-minded women? Join us at the Kairos FREE Online Community. https://createyournow.com TAKE A.I.M. ~ Action Ignites Motivation - This is a complimentary (FREE) coaching call with me. You will discuss your specific situation while gaining tools and strategies to move you forward. (https://form.jotform.com/62988215824163) 🙏 Create Your Now TV on Pray.com (https://pray.com) 🎥 Create Your Now on YouTube (https://youtube.com/createyournow) 🎧 Create Your Now on Spotify, Pandora, and Audible. 🎶 Create Your Now on iHeart Radio (http://www.iheart.com/show/263-Create-Your-Now-Your-Best/) ✍️ YourBestSelfie@CreateYourNow.com Instagram @CreateYourNow @KristianneWargo Twitter @KristianneWargo @CreateYourNow Facebook www.facebook.com/TheKISSCoach www.facebook.com/CreateYourNow Cover Art by Jenny Hamson Photo by Canva.com Music by Mandisa - Overcomer http://www.mandisaofficial.com Song ID: 68209 Song Title: Overcomer Writer(s): Ben Glover, Chris Stevens, David Garcia Copyright © 2013 Meaux Mercy (BMI) Moody Producer Music (BMI) One Songs (ASCAP) Ariose Music (ASCAP) Universal Music - Brentwood Benson Publ. (ASCAP) D Soul Music (ASCAP) (adm. at CapitolCMGPublishing.com) All rights reserved. Used by permission.
- 914110 Grow in GraceThere is a difference between a firework and a tree. A firework is glorious — sudden, bright, impossible to ignore. It commands the sky for a moment, and then it's gone, leaving only a faint trail of smoke where something beautiful used to be. On the other hand, a tree doesn't ask for your attention. It simply grows. Season after season, quietly sending roots deeper into the ground, wider beneath the surface, most of its work happening where no one can see it at all. Grow in grace. In yesterday's episode, we talked about how the spark gets the attention. But today, there remains a harder question: What are you doing with the slow years in between? Desire to be supported and encouraged by other like-minded women? Join us at the Kairos FREE Online Community. https://createyournow.com A More Perfect Union The founders understood something we often overlook. They didn't write "a perfect union." They wrote a more perfect union — three words that carry more honest weight than any polished declaration of arrival ever could. Read the full opening line of the Constitution and feel the humility in it: "We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America." More perfect. Not finished. Not complete. Not arrived. The very document that governs the most powerful nation in the world begins with a phrase that admits there is still growing left to do. That is not a flaw in the language. That is the whole point. Grace works the same way. It doesn't arrive all at once and declare itself finished. It takes root slowly, grows down before it grows up, and does some of its most important work in seasons that look, from the outside, like nothing is happening at all. The Long Work of Roots When an oak tree is young, nearly all of its energy goes underground. What you see above the surface — a thin, unimpressive sapling — tells you almost nothing about what's actually happening. The roots are reaching into harder and harder soil, finding cracks, going around stone, pressing deeper in search of what they need. It's slow. It's invisible. And it is absolutely essential. Without that hidden work, the tree will never be able to hold its own when the storms come. Two hundred fifty years of American history is the story of a nation doing exactly this — reaching into hard soil, pushing around stone, sometimes fracturing under pressure and growing back stronger, sometimes failing and having to begin again. The arc was never straight. The roots grew slowly, through generations of people who chose to stay committed to the vision even when the cost was high. That is not a comfortable history. But it is a growing one. The Apostle Peter, who knew a thing or two about being broken and rebuilt, wrote words that sound like they could have been addressed to the nation itself: "But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ." (2 Peter 3:18) The K.I.S.S. ~ Grow in grace! Not arrive in grace. Not perform grace. Not achieve grace once and post it on the wall. It's not for you to proclaim it, but to grow in it — present tense, ongoing, never fully done this side of eternity. Grace Is Not Softness It would be easy to read "grow in grace" as an invitation to go easy on yourself — to excuse the gaps, to lower the standard, to look past what needs to change. But that's not what grace is, and it's not what it produces. Grace is the soil that makes growth possible, not the excuse that makes growth optional. John Adams — who, alongside the joy of what they were building, carried a clear-eyed awareness of its cost — wrote something that reads like a charge to every generation that would come after: "Let us tenderly and impartially investigate the causes of the evils that afflict our nation, that we may correct what is amiss." Tenderly and impartially. That pairing is grace in action. Not cold judgment. Not defensive denial. But the willingness to look honestly at what is wrong, with enough love for the thing you're examining to want it to be better. That's what a more perfect union demands. That's what growing in grace requires. It means sitting with the parts of your own story that aren't finished yet — the places where the roots haven't reached, where the soil is still hard, where you haven't grown into who you said you wanted to be. And rather than abandoning the vision or pretending you've already arrived, choose to stay in the slow, unglamorous work of becoming who God divinely designed you to be. What's Growing Beneath You Here is the question worth sitting with today, on this Wednesday in the middle of a week built around new beginnings: What is growing in you that no one else can see yet? The root work you are doing right now — the prayer that feels unanswered, the faithfulness that hasn't been rewarded, the character being built in a season that looks, from the outside, like nothing is happening — is not wasted time. It's the most important work. It's what will hold you upright when the storm finally arrives. America's Semiquincentennial (250 years of the Declaration of Independence) is not a finished nation. And neither are you a finished person. And grace — real grace, the kind that comes from God and not from our own best efforts — is not insulted by that. It is designed for exactly that. It meets us in the incompleteness, takes up residence in the gap between who we are and who we are becoming, and quietly, season after season, doing the deep work of growth. The firework gets the sky. But the tree gets the years. And in the end, it is the roots that hold everything together. "Blessed is the one who trusts in the Lord, whose confidence is in him. They will be like a tree planted by the water that sends out its roots by the stream. It does not fear when heat comes; its leaves are always green. It has no worries in a year of drought and never fails to bear fruit." (Jeremiah 17:7–8) Grow down before you grow up. Stay in the slow work. Trust the soil. The bloom is coming — but first, let the roots go deep. "Be present. Be incredible. Be YOU!!!" #WellspringWednesday #CreateYourNow #HealthAndWellness 🔔 Desire to be supported and encouraged by other like-minded women? 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(https://form.jotform.com/62988215824163) 🙏 Create Your Now TV on Pray.com (https://pray.com) 🎥 Create Your Now on YouTube (https://youtube.com/createyournow) 🎧 Create Your Now on Spotify, Pandora, and Audible. 🎶 Create Your Now on iHeart Radio (http://www.iheart.com/show/263-Create-Your-Now-Your-Best/) ✍️ YourBestSelfie@CreateYourNow.com Instagram @CreateYourNow @KristianneWargo Twitter @KristianneWargo @CreateYourNow Facebook www.facebook.com/TheKISSCoach www.facebook.com/CreateYourNow Cover Art by Jenny Hamson Photo by Canva.com Music by Mandisa - Overcomer http://www.mandisaofficial.com Song ID: 68209 Song Title: Overcomer Writer(s): Ben Glover, Chris Stevens, David Garcia Copyright © 2013 Meaux Mercy (BMI) Moody Producer Music (BMI) One Songs (ASCAP) Ariose Music (ASCAP) Universal Music - Brentwood Benson Publ. (ASCAP) D Soul Music (ASCAP) (adm. at CapitolCMGPublishing.com) All rights reserved. Used by permission.
- 924109 Bloom with a BangThere is a moment, just before the first firework climbs into a dark sky, when nothing is happening at all. A small flame touches a fuse. A spark catches. And for a few seconds, there's only silence and a thin trail of smoke rising into the unknown. No one watching that fuse knows exactly what's coming. They just know something has been set in motion. That's how almost everything that matters begins. Bloom with a bang. It Started With an Idea In the summer of 1776, a group of men sat in a hot room in Philadelphia with no idea how their experiment would end. They weren't certain of victory. They didn't have the benefit of looking back at 250 years of history to know it would work out. What they had was an idea — and the courage to light the fuse anyway. Desire to be supported and encouraged by other like-minded women? Join us at the Kairos FREE Online Community. https://createyournow.com Thomas Jefferson wrote the words that would become the spark for a nation: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." Read that again, slowly. That sentence wasn't a guarantee. It was a declaration — a statement of what could be, signed by people who had no proof it would come true. They were betting everything on an idea they couldn't yet see fully formed. John Adams understood exactly what they were risking when he wrote to his wife Abigail: "I am well aware of the toil and blood and treasure that it will cost us to maintain this Declaration... Yet through all the gloom I can see the rays of ravishing light and glory." He saw light through the gloom — not instead of it. That's the part we tend to forget when we look back at history with the comfort of knowing how it ends. The signers didn't have that comfort. They had a spark, a sentence, and the courage to act before they knew the outcome. The Hard Part Isn't the Idea Ideas are the easy part. Anyone can have one. The hard part — the part that actually requires something of us — is what happens after the spark catches and before anything blooms. It's the in-between. The not-knowing. Change rarely arrives polished. It starts messy: a decision to leave something familiar, a conversation you've been avoiding, a risk that has no guaranteed return. The Declaration of Independence wasn't drafted by people who had already won the war. It was signed by fifty-six men who, in putting their names to it, were committing treason against the most powerful empire in the world. Benjamin Franklin reportedly summed up the stakes with dark humor at the signing: "We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately." That's not the language of certainty. That's the language of people choosing courage in spite of uncertainty — because the alternative, staying silent and unchanged, felt like the greater risk. The K.I.S.S. ~ Bloom with a bang! What the Bang Is For A firework doesn't bloom quietly. It takes a charge, a controlled explosion, something forceful enough to break the shell before the light can spread across the sky. There's no version of that process that skips the bang and goes straight to beautiful. The same is true for us. The Bible doesn't shy away from this either. Isaiah speaks of new things breaking forward, often through upheaval rather than around it: "Behold, I am doing a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it? I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert." (Isaiah 43:19) A way in the wilderness. Rivers in a desert. Those aren't peaceful images — they're images of something breaking through hard, resistant ground. Growth, real growth, almost always requires force somewhere along the way: the breaking of a seed casing, the push through soil, the bang before the bloom. If you are standing at the edge of a change right now — a hard conversation, a new direction, an idea you can't quite shake but also can't yet prove — you are standing exactly where Jefferson, Adams, and Franklin once stood. Not at the finish line. At the fuse. You Don't Get to Skip the Spark Two hundred fifty years later, we get to see the bloom. We forget there was ever a bang. But every freedom we now take for granted began as a sentence someone wasn't sure would hold. Every right we exercise without a second thought began as a risk someone took with a second thought — and chose to act anyway. So if you're holding an idea today that feels too big, too uncertain, too unfinished to act on — light the fuse anyway. You don't need to see the whole sky lit up before you're allowed to strike the match. You just need the courage to start, the same way fifty-six men once did, not knowing how the story would end, only knowing it needed to begin. That's how a nation was born. That's how anything worth becoming usually starts. "Be present. Be incredible. Be YOU!!!" #Inspiration #CreateYourNow #DailyMotivation 🔔 Desire to be supported and encouraged by other like-minded women? Join us at the Kairos FREE Online Community. https://createyournow.com TAKE A.I.M. ~ Action Ignites Motivation - This is a complimentary (FREE) coaching call with me. You will discuss your specific situation while gaining tools and strategies to move you forward. (https://form.jotform.com/62988215824163) 🙏 Create Your Now TV on Pray.com (https://pray.com) 🎥 Create Your Now on YouTube (https://youtube.com/createyournow) 🎧 Create Your Now on Spotify, Pandora, and Audible. 🎶 Create Your Now on iHeart Radio (http://www.iheart.com/show/263-Create-Your-Now-Your-Best/) ✍️ YourBestSelfie@CreateYourNow.com Instagram @CreateYourNow @KristianneWargo Twitter @KristianneWargo @CreateYourNow Facebook www.facebook.com/TheKISSCoach www.facebook.com/CreateYourNow Cover Art by Jenny Hamson Photo by Canva.com Music by Mandisa - Overcomer http://www.mandisaofficial.com Song ID: 68209 Song Title: Overcomer Writer(s): Ben Glover, Chris Stevens, David Garcia Copyright © 2013 Meaux Mercy (BMI) Moody Producer Music (BMI) One Songs (ASCAP) Ariose Music (ASCAP) Universal Music - Brentwood Benson Publ. (ASCAP) D Soul Music (ASCAP) (adm. at CapitolCMGPublishing.com) All rights reserved. Used by permission.
- 934108 The Road After FailureFailure isn't just a setback — it's a message disguised in discomfort and disappointment. It arrives uninvited, often at the worst possible time, and it doesn't come quietly. It brings shame, regret, second-guessing, and a chorus of voices — most of them your own — asking how you could have let this happen. But if you're letting the anguish and frustration of failure call the shots on your next step, you're likely circling the same block, not advancing. The road after failure is real. It exists. But it doesn't open itself to those still standing in the wreckage, rehearsing the crash. Desire to be supported and encouraged by other like-minded women? Join us at the Kairos FREE Online Community. https://createyournow.com Step Back Before You Step Forward Proverbs 3:5–6 says, "Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct your paths." Notice what this doesn't say. It doesn't say your paths will be straight because you figured it out fast, or because you were hard enough on yourself, or because you refused to rest until you recovered. It says in all your ways acknowledge him — which requires the willingness to stop, to release control, and to trust something wiser than the storm inside you. God's got you! Failure floods the mind with emotion: panic, self-blame, the urgent need to do something. Those feelings rush in, pretending to save you. In reality, they often keep you stuck — reactive rather than strategic, spinning rather than moving. Wisdom demands that you step back from the chaos of your emotions and seek clarity beyond what feels immediate and urgent. The smarter move is to decouple feeling from learning. Failure as a Lesson, Not a Trap When failure happens, two responses compete for your attention. The first is emotional: panic, self-doubt, retreat. The second is analytical: examine what went wrong, extract the lesson, identify the next best step. Only the second will free you. The first puts you on repeat — exhausted, spinning your wheels, and no closer to where you're trying to go. Romans 8:28 offers a perspective that changes everything: "And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose." All things. Not just the victories. Not just the comfortable seasons. The failures, too, have a purpose — and that purpose is not to paralyze you but to reposition you. The question is whether you'll stay long enough in the lesson to receive what it's actually offering. C.S. Lewis put it plainly: "Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny." Failure is one of those hardships. It is doing something to you, whether or not you're paying attention. The only choice you have is whether to be shaped by it intentionally or dragged by it blindly. Turn failure into forward motion. The K.I.S.S. ~ Turn failure into forward motion! Three Strategic Steps to Turn Failure Into Forward Motion 1. Separate Your Feelings From Your Facts Name the emotions without judgment — anger, embarrassment, disappointment, grief. They are real, and they deserve acknowledgment. But don't make your next decision inside that storm. Journal it. Talk it out with someone you trust. Then step away. Return when you're emotionally neutral and ready to dissect the failure clearly, not reactively. The facts of what happened will look different when you're not standing in the smoke. 2. Extract the Lesson, Then Map Your Next Step Against It Ask honest questions: What exactly went wrong? What part was within my control? What assumptions did I make that turned out to be false? Your next step must logically address the core failure — not just react to the pain of it. There's a difference between a move that solves the actual problem and a move that simply makes you feel like you're doing something. One builds; the other just burns energy. Jeremiah 29:11 reminds us, "For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." That future is real — but it's built on honest reckoning, not avoidance. 3. Anchor Your Next Step in Principles, Not Passions If your next move relies primarily on feeling better or proving something to someone, it's built on unstable ground. Decisions driven by wounded pride or emotional urgency rarely lead where you actually want to go. Anchor instead in values, clear criteria, and strategic goals. Ask: Does this align with who I'm trying to become? Does this address the real problem, or does it just feel good right now? This is how you stay clear-eyed. This is how you stop letting "save me" emotions masquerade as forward momentum. You Are Not Who You Were The person who failed is not the person standing here now. Something has shifted — your awareness, your humility, your understanding of what you were missing or what you assumed too confidently. That version of you has been refined. What remains is clearer, if you're willing to see it that way. This is not a call to minimize what happened or rush past the weight of it. Grief is legitimate. Disappointment is real. But there is a difference between acknowledging the loss and being defined by it. "Your failures are not the end of your story. In fact, they're just the beginning: my strength is my story!" ~ Kristianne Wargo You are being created in real time. Failure is part of the process. God is the potter, and we are the clay (Isaiah 64:8). The question worth sitting with is not only what went wrong but who is being shaped in the aftermath — and whether you are cooperating with that process or resisting it. The Road Is Open The goal is not simply to survive failure — to get past it, put it behind you, move on. The goal is to use it. To let it become the specific, irreplaceable fuel for the next version of what you're building. Failure is not a detour from your story. Handled with honesty and wisdom, it may be one of its most important chapters. You might be amazed by what comes from "Oh my goodness storms," to "Oh my goodness rainbows." The road after failure is not smooth. But it is open. Take the lesson. Anchor your steps. And walk forward as the woman you are and who you are becoming. "Be present. Be incredible. Be YOU!!!" #MindsetMonday #CreateYourNow #PersonalDevelopment 🔔 Desire to be supported and encouraged by other like-minded women? Join us at the Kairos FREE Online Community. https://createyournow.com TAKE A.I.M. ~ Action Ignites Motivation - This is a complimentary (FREE) coaching call with me. You will discuss your specific situation while gaining tools and strategies to move you forward. (https://form.jotform.com/62988215824163) 🙏 Create Your Now TV on Pray.com (https://pray.com) 🎥 Create Your Now on YouTube (https://youtube.com/createyournow) 🎧 Create Your Now on Spotify, Pandora, and Audible. 🎶 Create Your Now on iHeart Radio (http://www.iheart.com/show/263-Create-Your-Now-Your-Best/) ✍️ YourBestSelfie@CreateYourNow.com Instagram @CreateYourNow @KristianneWargo Twitter @KristianneWargo @CreateYourNow Facebook www.facebook.com/TheKISSCoach www.facebook.com/CreateYourNow Cover Art by Jenny Hamson Photo by Canva.com Music by Mandisa - Overcomer http://www.mandisaofficial.com Song ID: 68209 Song Title: Overcomer Writer(s): Ben Glover, Chris Stevens, David Garcia Copyright © 2013 Meaux Mercy (BMI) Moody Producer Music (BMI) One Songs (ASCAP) Ariose Music (ASCAP) Universal Music - Brentwood Benson Publ. 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- 944107 Faith Moves FirstThere is a moment before every miracle. A quiet, often terrifying pause between the word of God and the evidence of it — a space that can only be crossed one way. Not by strategy. Not by certainty. Not by the accumulation of enough resources or enough confidence in our own ability. It is crossed by faith, and faith alone; faith moves first. God does not ask us to leap after everything is guaranteed. He asks us to step forward because He has guaranteed it. That is the tension at the heart of the Christian life — and it is one of the most beautiful invitations in all of Scripture. Desire to be supported and encouraged by other like-minded women? Join us at the Kairos FREE Online Community. https://createyournow.com The Water Does Not Part Until Your Feet Are Wet The story of Israel's crossing of the Jordan River in Joshua 3 is one of the most striking pictures of this principle in the entire Bible. The Israelites stood at the bank of a river swollen with floodwater, carrying the Ark of the Covenant, with no visible way across. God's instruction through Joshua was clear but audacious: the priests were to step into the water first. "Yet as soon as the priests who carried the ark reached the Jordan and their feet touched the water's edge, the water from upstream stopped flowing." — Joshua 3:15–16 NIV You noticed that the water did not part while they stood on the shore debating it. It did not part while they prayed for clearer conditions or waited for a better season. It parted the moment their feet touched the water. The miracle was contingent on the movement. God was not waiting for better circumstances — He was waiting for faith. This is not an isolated moment in Scripture. It is a pattern. Small Steps, Sovereign God We often disqualify ourselves from stepping out because what we have to offer seems too small. The task looks too large. The resources feel too thin. The gap between where we are and where God is calling us to seems impossible to cross. But the Word speaks directly to this fear: "Do not despise these small beginnings, for the Lord rejoices to see the work begin." — Zechariah 4:10 NLT The context of this verse is significant. The prophet Zechariah spoke it to Zerubbabel, the governor tasked with rebuilding the temple in Jerusalem after the exile — a monumental work that had stalled, that the people had largely given up on, that seemed laughably inadequate given the grandeur of what once stood. Zerubbabel had only a small foundation laid. A remnant of a people. Modest tools. And yet God said: begin. He did not say "wait until you have enough." He said "I rejoice to see the work start." God is not moved by our finished products. He is moved by our first steps. Not in Our Strength, But His The essential shift that faith requires is a fundamental reorientation of trust. We are not stepping out because we believe in our own ability to hold things together. We are stepping out because we believe in His. The Apostle Paul understood this deeply. Writing from a Roman prison — about as stripped of human resources as a person could be — he testified: "I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me." — Philippians 4:13 NKJV This verse is often quoted as motivation, but read in context, it is something far more profound: it is a declaration of utter dependence. Paul had learned — through shipwreck and imprisonment, through abundance and hunger — that his own strength was not the variable. Christ's was. That changed everything. Faith is not the courage to try harder. Faith is the surrender that says: I cannot, but He can, and so I will move. The K.I.S.S. ~ Faith moves first! Abraham Walked Without a Map Perhaps no figure in Scripture embodies this principle more completely than Abraham. When God called him to leave Ur for a land he would be shown, there was no itinerary provided. No map. No timeline. No guarantee of comfort along the way. "By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to a place that he was to receive as an inheritance. And he went out, not knowing where he was going." — Hebrews 11:8 ESV Not knowing where he was going. That phrase should stop us in our tracks. We tend to think of faith as the thing we exercise once we understand the destination. Abraham teaches us that faith is often what moves us before the destination is revealed. The direction came one step at a time — and only to someone who was already walking. God rarely shows us the whole staircase. He illuminates the next step. Why God Works This Way Why would a gracious God require the step before the miracle? Why not show us the parted water, the open road, the guaranteed outcome — and then invite us to walk? The answer is worth sitting with. When we step out in faith and watch God move, something irreplaceable happens in us. We learn, at the level of lived experience, that He is faithful. Not as a theological proposition, but as a personal history. Each step of faith becomes a stone of remembrance — evidence we carry forward into the next uncertain season. There is also this: when we move in our own strength, we carry the weight of the outcome. When we move in faith, we carry only obedience — and leave the outcome to Him. That is not passivity. It is the deepest form of courage, and the lightest kind of yoke. "Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight." — Proverbs 3:5–6 NIV The Invitation Before You You may be standing at a river right now. Something God has spoken over you, a calling, a reconciliation, a step of obedience, a dream quietly laid on your heart — and the waters have not yet parted. The conditions do not look right. Your strength does not feel sufficient. The beginning, if you made it, would look embarrassingly small. Step in anyway. God does not rejoice in your perfection. He rejoices in your beginning. He is not waiting for you to be capable enough — He is waiting for you to trust Him enough. The miracle is on the other side of the step, not before it. Faith moves first. And when you get that, you discover the ground was always there. "Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see." — Hebrews 11:1 NIV "Be present. Be incredible. Be YOU!!!" #SweetSpirit #CreateYourNow #SoulfulSunday 🔔 Desire to be supported and encouraged by other like-minded women? Join us at the Kairos FREE Online Community. https://createyournow.com TAKE A.I.M. ~ Action Ignites Motivation - This is a complimentary (FREE) coaching call with me. You will discuss your specific situation while gaining tools and strategies to move you forward. (https://form.jotform.com/62988215824163) 🙏 Create Your Now TV on Pray.com (https://pray.com) 🎥 Create Your Now on YouTube (https://youtube.com/createyournow) 🎧 Create Your Now on Spotify, Pandora, and Audible. 🎶 Create Your Now on iHeart Radio (http://www.iheart.com/show/263-Create-Your-Now-Your-Best/) ✍️ YourBestSelfie@CreateYourNow.com Instagram @CreateYourNow @KristianneWargo Twitter @KristianneWargo @CreateYourNow Facebook www.facebook.com/TheKISSCoach www.facebook.com/CreateYourNow Cover Art by Jenny Hamson Photo by Canva.com Music by Mandisa - Overcomer http://www.mandisaofficial.com Song ID: 68209 Song Title: Overcomer Writer(s): Ben Glover, Chris Stevens, David Garcia Copyright © 2013 Meaux Mercy (BMI) Moody Producer Music (BMI) One Songs (ASCAP) Ariose Music (ASCAP) Universal Music - Brentwood Benson Publ. (ASCAP) D Soul Music (ASCAP) (adm. at CapitolCMGPublishing.com) All rights reserved. Used by permission.
- 954106 Don't Cross the LineHave you ever drawn a boundary in your marriage—a clear line keeping your spouse on their side, preserving your pride like a fortress around your heart? Maybe you think that protecting yourself means shutting down tough conversations, rejecting correction, or dodging the deeper questions about who you are. But stop and ask: who really wants a love so fragile that it breaks under honesty? Don't cross the line. Marriage isn't about guarding your ego at all costs. It's not a delicate dance where criticism is a threat and probing questions are an ambush. Desire to be supported and encouraged by other like-minded women? Join us at the Kairos FREE Online Community. https://createyournow.com When you say, "Don't cross the line," what line are you protecting? Your pride? Your comfort zone? Or is that line an invisible prison trapping you both apart? Yes, there's a natural fear of letting someone see your cracks. The "prying" can feel like an invasion of privacy, pushing you to put up walls or erase the moments shared. Yet this kind of communication avoidance doesn't keep your marriage safe—it keeps it stuck. You might feel like you're winning when you hold the line, but every "no" to vulnerability chips away at your love's foundation. Marriage asks you to be brave. To weather criticism, to hear tough truths, and to give each other space to grow—even when it stings. If you want to stop the slow erosion of love, you have to stop hiding behind boundaries that shut connection down. So how do you find the middle ground? How do you avoid the extremes of either tearing each other apart or building cold walls that prevent true intimacy? The K.I.S.S. ~ Walk the line! Life is all about choices, and you get to choose how you show up in your marriage every day. You can be the one who demands and controls. But that will not get you anywhere except in front of a judge. You must be willing to learn more about your spouse and share a part of you too, so your foundation can become stronger and less brittle. Here are three things spouses can do to walk that line—and sometimes, cross it courageously: Set Boundaries… But Not Silos It's healthy to say what's off-limits—like disrespect or harmful accusations—but don't confuse boundaries with avoidance. Make sure the line you draw invites open dialogue on tough topics rather than shuts it down. Boundaries should protect your heart, not isolate it. Choose Vulnerability as a Strength, Not a Weakness Being open about fears, failures, and doubts isn't giving your spouse ammo—it's giving them trust. When you invite honesty, you model courage and create a safe space where love can deepen. Vulnerability is the soil where connection grows. Practice Constructive Feedback, Not Criticism It's not about pointing fingers or "fixing" each other. It's about sharing observations with kindness, focusing on solutions, and making "we" the priority. When your spouse hears "I want us to be better," instead of "You're wrong," the line becomes a path to growth—not a barrier. Now, it's time to reflect: What invisible walls have you quietly built to protect yourself and your pride? When have you crossed the line between protecting your heart and putting up a fortress? Are you ready to invite your spouse deeper into your world—and let them speak more honestly into yours? Love isn't about staying safe. It's about risking closer, learning harder, and sometimes crossing the line together. Guard your pride, yes—but never at the cost of your connection. Don't just protect the line. Know when to cross it—and watch how your marriage changes. "Be present. Be incredible. Be YOU!!!" #RelationshipBuilders #CreateYourNow #LoveAndMarriage 🔔 Desire to be supported and encouraged by other like-minded women? Join us at the Kairos FREE Online Community. https://createyournow.com TAKE A.I.M. ~ Action Ignites Motivation - This is a complimentary (FREE) coaching call with me. You will discuss your specific situation while gaining tools and strategies to move you forward. (https://form.jotform.com/62988215824163) 🙏 Create Your Now TV on Pray.com (https://pray.com) 🎥 Create Your Now on YouTube (https://youtube.com/createyournow) 🎧 Create Your Now on Spotify, Pandora, and Audible. 🎶 Create Your Now on iHeart Radio (http://www.iheart.com/show/263-Create-Your-Now-Your-Best/) ✍️ YourBestSelfie@CreateYourNow.com Instagram @CreateYourNow @KristianneWargo Twitter @KristianneWargo @CreateYourNow Facebook www.facebook.com/TheKISSCoach www.facebook.com/CreateYourNow Cover Art by Jenny Hamson Photo by Canva.com Music by Mandisa - Overcomer http://www.mandisaofficial.com Song ID: 68209 Song Title: Overcomer Writer(s): Ben Glover, Chris Stevens, David Garcia Copyright © 2013 Meaux Mercy (BMI) Moody Producer Music (BMI) One Songs (ASCAP) Ariose Music (ASCAP) Universal Music - Brentwood Benson Publ. (ASCAP) D Soul Music (ASCAP) (adm. at CapitolCMGPublishing.com) All rights reserved. Used by permission.
- 964105 How Heavy is Your Diaper Bag?Mom life isn't for the faint of heart. You start by carrying your baby — literally — and then you carry a bag full of every imaginable thing that might save the day: diapers, wipes, bottles, snacks, toys, extra clothes. The diaper bag becomes your lifeline, kind of like Mary Poppins, stuffed to the brim with solutions for every little crisis. And then one day, everything changes. How heavy is your diaper bag? And that one day, you have a strange wish for the diaper bag to disappear. The weight, the clutter, the constant reminder of your need to be everything for your child — maybe you're tired of lugging all of it around. Desire to be supported and encouraged by other like-minded women? Join us at the Kairos FREE Online Community. https://createyournow.com But then, you look inside the bag, and it's still there. Just not diapers anymore. Instead, it's filled with new things: permission slips, cell phone chargers, water bottles, homework notes. Your child's needs evolve, but the bag — that relentless, ever-heavy diaper bag — never really goes away. It just changes shape. So here's the question: How heavy is your diaper bag now? The Diaper Bag as a Mirror of Mom Life Your diaper bag has always been more than just a bag. It's a symbol — a perfect reflection of the stage of motherhood you're in. When you peek inside, you don't just find pacifiers and rash creams. You find the tools to solve screaming meltdowns, soothe thirsty lips after a playground run, replace a fidgety hand held too tightly. That bag, no matter what you call it, carries the weight of your love, responsibility, and endless giving. But what happens when your child grows — and so do you? When the demands don't disappear, but just morph? When you still feel like you need to carry the weight of it all, even if the load looks different? Here's the truth: the diaper bag you carry now isn't about baby gear. It's a mental and emotional burden that can weigh you down just as heavily. The same supermom magic can quickly turn into overwhelm and exhaustion, leaving you feeling worn thin without a clue how to drop the load — or even if you should. How Heavy is Your Diaper Bag? You might not call it a diaper bag anymore — maybe it's a backpack, a tote, or just that corner of your mind packed full of "shoulds" and "have tos." But it's still there, still heavy. QUESTION: How do you lighten your load without losing the essence of who you are as a mom? How do you step back without feeling like you're stepping out of the mom role you cherish — and the difference you make every single day? Maybe it just begins without the diaper bag. The K.I.S.S. ~ No more D.I.A.P.E.R. bag! You might be carrying other bags, but you don't have to carry it all just for your children. Look at your bag as a bag, and carry what helps them grow. It's time to rethink that mental diaper bag and clean out the clutter. The DIAPER Method for Lightening the Load D – DECIDE What Really Matters You can't carry everything, and you're not meant to. Choose the essentials — your child's emotional needs, your own wellbeing, and the truly impactful moments over the noise and distractions. Ask yourself: What really moves the needle for my child right now? I – IDENTIFY What You Can Let Go There are tasks, worries, and pressures weighing you down that might belong to someone else or belong in the past. Pinpoint what feels like dead weight — and practice releasing the guilt that comes with it. Saying no or asking for help is not a failure. It's strategy. A – ALIGN with Your Child's Growing Independence Your kids are capable of more than you might realize. Empower them to take responsibility for parts of their own journey. That means less to carry for you, but more growth for them. P – PRIORITIZE Your Self-Care You can't pour from an empty bag. Make room in your schedule and your heart for moments that refill your energy. Self-care isn't selfish — it's survival. E – ESTABLISH Boundaries Set clear limits on how much you take on. Teach your child—and others—that your time and energy are finite. Boundaries protect you and model healthy habits for your children. R – REFLECT Regularly and Readjust Motherhood is a moving target. What you needed to carry yesterday differs from today and tomorrow. Check in with yourself regularly. What can shift? What's new? Your "diaper bag" isn't forever fixed. Your Bag is Heavy, But So is Your Impact Mom, your "diaper bag" isn't just about stuff. It's about the role you play — a constantly evolving as a mom, guardian, guide, and cheerleader for your child. The load feels heavy because it matters. But you don't have to carry the world alone. Let go of the weight that wears you out, and keep hold of what empowers you as a woman and a mom. You are enough with or without that bag; your impact doesn't depend on how many items you tote around, but on the steady unconditional love and support only you can provide. So, how heavy is your diaper bag today? Can you lighten the load? And if so, what's the first thing you're ready to put down? "Be present. Be incredible. Be YOU!!!" #ConfessionsOfAnUpsetMama #CreateYourNow #TodaysParent 🔔 Desire to be supported and encouraged by other like-minded women? Join us at the Kairos FREE Online Community. https://createyournow.com TAKE A.I.M. ~ Action Ignites Motivation - This is a complimentary (FREE) coaching call with me. You will discuss your specific situation while gaining tools and strategies to move you forward. (https://form.jotform.com/62988215824163) 🙏 Create Your Now TV on Pray.com (https://pray.com) 🎥 Create Your Now on YouTube (https://youtube.com/createyournow) 🎧 Create Your Now on Spotify, Pandora, and Audible. 🎶 Create Your Now on iHeart Radio (http://www.iheart.com/show/263-Create-Your-Now-Your-Best/) ✍️ YourBestSelfie@CreateYourNow.com Instagram @CreateYourNow @KristianneWargo Twitter @KristianneWargo @CreateYourNow Facebook www.facebook.com/TheKISSCoach www.facebook.com/CreateYourNow Cover Art by Jenny Hamson Photo by Canva.com Music by Mandisa - Overcomer http://www.mandisaofficial.com Song ID: 68209 Song Title: Overcomer Writer(s): Ben Glover, Chris Stevens, David Garcia Copyright © 2013 Meaux Mercy (BMI) Moody Producer Music (BMI) One Songs (ASCAP) Ariose Music (ASCAP) Universal Music - Brentwood Benson Publ. (ASCAP) D Soul Music (ASCAP) (adm. at CapitolCMGPublishing.com) All rights reserved. Used by permission.
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