Emotional Wellness By Design

11/18/2025

11/17/2025

The Conflict Of Flesh And Spirit

In our walk with Christ, we often face a tug-of-war between our flesh and spirit.
Acknowledging this inner conflict is the first step toward growth. The Bible teaches us that the flesh desires what is contrary to the spirit, and this can create a struggle within us. Understanding this dynamic can empower us to make choices that align more with our spiritual selves. We can lean on God’s word and the Holy Spirit for guidance and strength as we navigate these challenges. When we recognize our weaknesses and surrender them to God, we allow His strength to work in us.
This understanding invites us into a deeper relationship with God and encourages us to rely on the Spirit for daily living.
A big emotional anchor that keeps this from happening is anger, from a root of bitterness.
If it is ongoing, and not healed, decisions and choices are made from regret and resentment of an unhealed past.
Emotions are a part of the soul, as the soul is made up from our mind,will,and emotions.
We are not to be led by our emotions, as that is being led in your own flesh. We don’t deny we have emotions, rather we need to understand our weaknesses that come from unhealthy emotions so we can surrender, die to flesh, and have a willingness to allow God to be our strength.

11/17/2025

Identifying and recognizing your own bitterness in order for you to heal requires humility.

Philippians 2:3-4 ESV
Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves. Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others

11/16/2025

Time to do a check up from the neck up…..

Ongoing bitterness is really good at fault finding in others , but never allows one to truly look inward at themselves to take ownership of their own wrong doing in thought, word , and deed.

Instead, any wrong doing against a bitter person will result in the offender being the “worst” and bitter person being “ better than”
It falls very easily where the offender is the villain and the bitter person is always the victim.

Even if the bitter person had suffered an infraction or an injustice, often time, in their own offended or defensive behaviors they fall short in a reaction of retaliation out their own self justifications.

Do a double check in your own heart ……
Are you honest with yourself about bitterness before God alone ??

11/14/2025

Faithfulness is the foundation, but love thrives in the daily pursuit. ❤️

A strong marriage isn’t built in the big moments—it’s built in the quiet choices to honor each other, pray together, and keep showing up with tenderness.

Keep courting each other.
Keep choosing each other.

Keep letting God shape the love you share. 🙏✨

11/12/2025

Galatians 6:7-8 ESV
Do not be deceived: God is not mocked, for whatever one sows, that will he also reap. For the one who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption, but the one who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.

11/09/2025

Ephesians 4:29 ESV
Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear.

“Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it.” – Proverbs 4:23

1 Corinthians 16:14 ESV
14 Let all that you do be done in love.

11/07/2025

At its core, 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18 is about the importance of gratitude as part of God’s will for our lives.
It’s a reminder that being thankful isn’t just an optional practice, it’s central to the Christian life.
By giving thanks in everything, we align ourselves with the will of God, trusting that His plans are good, even when they don’t make sense to us.
This attitude of thanksgiving transforms our perspective, helping us to focus on God’s grace, rather than on our own difficulties.

11/06/2025

Gratitude For God’s Grace

When we reflect on the grace bestowed upon us, it becomes clear how essential thankfulness is in our spiritual walk. God’s grace is an unearned gift that transforms lives. We have every reason to be thankful because His grace offers us forgiveness and new beginnings. As we embrace gratitude for that grace, we strengthen our bond with God and encourage others to seek Him.

11/04/2025

Healthy boundaries to an unhealthy person feels like walls .