Garner Counseling Service

10/23/2025

We love to work on fine motor skills using everyday objects in play. Here are some additional ideas: https://www.theottoolbox.com/tripod-grasp-fine-motor-skills-everyday-items/

10/23/2025

To spoil literally means to ruin one's character. Love does not do that. ✨

10/23/2025

𝐈𝐭’𝐬 𝐚 𝐛𝐞𝐚𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐟𝐮𝐥 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐚 𝐟𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐡 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐭 … 🍂🍁🍃

10/23/2025

Either the Bible
is God's
unchanging word,
or it isn't.

There is no middle ground.

"Did God really say . . ."
~Genesis 3:1

It's a question
as old as time
designed
by the Deceiver
to cause you and I
to question
all that God
would declare
to be truth.

And what
you and I often
fail to remember
is this:

Truth isn't truth
because we agree with it.

And truth isn't truth
because we don't.

Truth is truth
because it is truth.

God's truth.

Plain and simple.

Period.

It's in the questioning
of truth
that we start
to go off course.

It's in the
"did God really say"
moments
that we start
to slide down
the slippery slope
of sin.

God said what He said.

And you and me,
we have
only two choices.

We either
believe it as truth
or we reject it.

What we can't do
is change
the truth of
God's word
to line up with
the truth
we want it to be.

Once we change truth,
it is no longer
God's truth.

It's just not.

Now it is simply
us deciding
whatever we
want truth to be.

And when
we choose
to walk
in our own truth
and not His,
we have stopped
walking in truth -
period.

Now
we are walking
in deception -
fooling our self
into thinking
we are walking
in truth.

We don't get
to decide truth.

Our only decision
is whether
we are going
to walk in it -

or not.~❤

~Stacy L. Sanchez

10/23/2025

A child who’s shamed for telling the truth will stop confiding in you. Not because they don’t care, but because it no longer feels safe.

Every mistake is a chance to teach repair, not rejection. 💚

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10/23/2025

Trust me, alcohol is not the secret to motherhood or emotional freedom we give it credit for. What goes on behind the scenes takes a toll on the whole family.

08/15/2025

06/18/2025

I hear His still small voice behind me,
whispering ‘this is the way walk in it’.

My feet are led to where I need to be even when
I am unaware of it happening. His voice is gentle
soft and steady and yet I still hear it above the noise
of the world and life happening around me.

He has held me and led me through the depths
of the waters and as the flames of the fire have
surrounded me they never once set me ablaze.

He has been patient with me as
I have walked the path of His will.

He has had compassion
as I have fought against it.

He has given me the grace
when I had no strength to keep going.
He has remained faithful when I
wasn’t and held on to me so
that I would not fall.

His will and His plans have not gone
the way I had hoped or planned.

There were steps I didn’t see coming,
and yet He did.
Nothing has been a surprise to Him,
He has had every season and
day accounted for.

His mercy has crossed out the plans of the enemy
and redemption has been factored in.

He saw it all from the end to the beginning.
My story, my journey, my faith becoming pure.
He knew the roads I must travel and
the storms I must
endure so that I could learn to
live a surrendered life.

He has kept records of my tears and
sorrows and knows the good things
they will produce in my heart
and life.

He sees the glory to come and
He gently leads me to see it too.

Even when I don’t know where I am
headed my Shepherd does.
And because of that I need not fear.
He has good things in store for
me because He loves me.

He may lead me to places
I didn’t see coming
but it is all part of my story,
to learn to rely on Him solely
and trust where He says to go.

He whispers, don’t fear and I learn
to keep my eyes on Him
and because His Spirit is with
me I know I can go wherever He leads.

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06/01/2025

May God bless you and all those you come in contact with today.🙏💜🙌 Here’s a thought for us all to remember:

“And the King will answer and say to them, ‘Assuredly, I say to you, inasmuch as you did it to one of the least of these My brethren, you did it to Me.’”
(‭‭Matthew‬ ‭25‬:‭40‬)
🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵
“for I was hungry and you gave Me food; I was thirsty and you gave Me drink; I was a stranger and you took Me in; I was naked and you clothed Me; I was sick and you visited Me; I was in prison and you came to Me.’”
(‭‭Matthew‬ ‭25‬:‭35‬-‭36‬)

06/01/2025

Jesus reminds us in John 16:33 that the world will bring us tribulation but in Him we have peace, calm, and reassurance.

Apart from Him, there will be struggles. In Him we will have peace in the midst of these struggles.

We can't control the world, but we can control Who we turn to when it all feels like too much.

Pray with me:
Lord, help remind my heart you have overcome this world and there is peace in you no matter what is going on around me. The hope you bring gives us the peace our soul needs. Jesus, you are always my peace, and I am so grateful.

05/04/2025

I have a mind that likes replay mistakes or I believe it's my job to fix someone or something.

I'm learning balance between being of service to others and trying to change or control outcomes.

That's the tricky part for me and why I have to seek out wise counsel from people who are also working on themselves.

Michelle
© Wakingupfree

05/04/2025

People always say it's normal for a baby to be attached to their mom. But the moment a toddler clings to her, suddenly people start calling them spoiled.

Here’s the truth.

That toddler isn’t spoiled. They feel safe. They trust her. She’s their anchor in a world that feels big and unpredictable.

Toddlers don’t have many ways to feel powerful or in control, so they cling to what feels steady. That’s not something to correct. That’s something to honor.

If your child only wants you, it’s not a failure on your part. It’s proof that you’ve created a space where they feel most secure.

And that’s a beautiful thing.