Life Interrupted

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Don’t you hate getting interrupted?

How many times have you said, “I don’t have time for this in my life right now?” Honestly, when do we ever have time for interruptions?

A little over a year ago, I received a phone call from my dad telling me Mom had been admitted to the ICU for unexpected triple by-pass surgery. I hung up the phone immediately, packed my bags and headed to the hospital two hours away.

I was panicked!

Speeding down the highway, fear and anxiety tormented me. As you can imagine, I don’t do well with hospitals after spending almost four weeks in a coma on life-support. It’s just not my thing. But no matter if it was my thing or not it was getting ready to be my thing real quick.

It felt surreal walking into the ICU to see mom lying in bed hooked up to monitors and IVs. It was heartbreaking.

Her surgery turned out to be a success, however weeks later after getting her settled in at home, I received another phone call, “Your mother has had a heart attack. She’s in the ambulance now.”

I fell to the floor in shock and pure exhaustion.

On my way back to the ICU, I was determined not to leave her side. I stayed by her bed day and night. I’ll never forget those dark nights watching the monitors and praying, “Lord, save her.” Tears flooded my face and soul. “Lord, thank you for healing me so that I can sit by Mom’s bed just as she did for me.” It was in those midnight hours that I felt the Lord’s presence and his gentle spirit hovering over the hospital room.

Life was very disrupted during those months of hospitalization and rehabilitation, however I do not regret this divine interruption. I’m actually very grateful. It was one way I could repay my mom for all that she has sacrificed for me my entire life. I’m proud to say that yesterday; I celebrated with my mom at her retirement party! Another MIRACLE from God!

I want to encourage you no matter how overwhelmed you are with life’s interruptions; the Lord can turn them into some life’s greatest appreciations.

Leave a comment and tell me whom you are grateful for in your life today. Let’s cover them in prayer.

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Introducing Flashback Fridays starting September 20. Let’s share our then and now stories. How do you know God is REAL in your life today?

Leave a voicemail on my blog by clicking send voicemail on the right of the screen or send an email to linda@lindakuhar.com. I’m excited to share our stories to build faith, hope and encouragement with each other!

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation, the old is gone, the new has come!   2 Corinthians 5:17

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Beauty from Pain

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porchWill you join me on my front porch today?

As I sit in my rocking chair, listening to the birds chirp, watching the sunrise with the cool gentle breeze blowing, I’m filled with awe and wonder.  God softly whispers, “be still”.

I remember sitting in this very place writing one of many journal entries on my CaringBridge page during my cancer journey. Every entry was written from a secret place deep in my soul. There’s something about facing death that strips away everything you’ve ever tried to hide behind.

Do you want to know the best part about having cancer? I know that sounds crazy, but really there was good that came from living with that dreaded “C” word.

I finally gave myself permission to genuinely be me. There was no need to perform anymore or appear to be something I was not. It naturally forced me to be me while uncovering the gift of life.

I’m #amazed at how God took my most vulnerable and frightening days and turned them into vast strength and courage.

After my third chemotherapy treatment I wrote, “God is using the cancer to change my life for Him to bring New Life in my spirit so I can share Jesus’ love with everyone I meet. Thank you Jesus for my cancer.” I had no clue how true those words would resonate in my daily life today, four years later.

My sweet friend, I’m here today to encourage you, that no matter what pain or hell you might face, it will pass and can be used for God’s greater purpose in your life.

I’m asking you to hold on, even if you have to white knuckle it, because He will create beauty from your pain.

Please share whatever is on your heart today.

Let’s pray for each other. When you leave a comment, please pray for the person that comments before you.

Much love, blessings and God’s favor for you~

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Be still and know that I am God. Psalms 46:10

I want to encourage you to write this verse and sit with it in your time with God. What is God speaking to you? Share a comment about what God is saying to you. I would love to read them.

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Say What?

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“40 days of juice.  I’m asking you to drink juice for the next 40 days?  No chewing any food.  No solids, straight vegetable and fruit juice.”

Say what???

“You’ve gotta be kidding me?  I love my food way too much…and not to mention no chewing…just slurping some nasty juice?  There is no way I could ever do something so drastic!”

Well my friends, that was the conversation I had with God one early morning, last October.  I was snuggled in my favorite chair, enjoying the solitude, sipping my hot coffee when God stirred my spirit to take a giant step towards radical obedience.

I was in a season where God was opening up many doors in my Christian Life Coaching business.  During that time, he also impressed on my heart to write a book about the truths I’ve learned to live by since my near death experience.  I did not take his instructions lightly.  I knew this was something I could not do in my own strength.

After a few minutes of complaining and arguing with God about this ridiculous juice fast, he whispered, “If I cannot trust you with food, how can I trust you with people?”

Those words pierced my heart and there was no way I could deny what he was asking me to do.

Later that morning I shared with my bible study group that I was going to start a 40-day juice fast the very next day and asked for their earnest prayers.  I sobbed as we prayed together because I knew this was going to be a life long pivotal moment in my relationship with the Lord.  Following Christ with radical obedience wasn’t going to be for this one occasion; instead it was going to become the way of life….a new kind of normal.

As I write this post, ten months has past and I’m currently in the process of signing with a literary agent.  I’ve learned that radical obedience is really the only way to experiencing life with deep satisfaction.

Have you ever had a “Say What” moment with God? I would love to hear from you!

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Inspirational Coaching Minute Give Away Time!

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Is it hard to find time to meet with God and get centered in the middle of life’s chaos?

John 14:27 Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid.

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A Soul Longing For More

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Do you have a passionate intimate relationship with God?

I wish I could answer this question with a confident and resounding Yes!

I would like to write to you proclaiming that my every breath is undeniably filled with God’s presence that saturates my entire being…. that my life is completely satisfied longing for nothing more when it comes to a relationship with our Creator.

However, I refuse to be a fake, so I choose to share my truth with you.

Many days my relationship with God can be the absolute opposite from satisfied!

I find myself struggling desperately to make it through and wonder why life has to be so hard.  I question why everyone else around me seems to have it all together with this “Christian thing”.

Have you ever found yourself asking, “When is God’s word going to actually come alive in my life?”  I know I have.

When I find my soul anxiously searching, longing for more, the only thing I know to do is fight!  I get ticked off and then I am determined to fight for what is true.  Undeniably the best weapons to fight with are….

READING, MEDIATING, PRAYING and SPEAKING the Word of God!

Proverbs 3:5 tells us to “Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding.” 

It’s ok when we experience times of uncertainty and feel a sense of longing.  We can boldly and confidently move past what we think to be “true” by simply trusting His promises in this one simple verse.

Is your soul longing for more?  How can you start to fill this desire?

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Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding.  Proverbs 3:5 

Will you join me in trusting God with every part of your life?  How will you start living out this verse immediately?  Let’s encourage each other today by leaving a comment below.

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You verses God?

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Are you consumed with You or God?

I’m really starting to develop some insecurity around writing my blog each week because I’m convicted to be gut wrenching honest with you.

Ugh…..Here we go….

I have to admit to you my sweet sisters; I struggle with being consumed with me!

You see I know God did not miraculously heal me from cancer and a month long coma for me to just sit around and be obsessed with me.  Just like he hasn’t kept you alive for you to be focused and consumed with you.

But when it comes to taking a risk, like putting yourself out there for the world to see or trying something new we often end up paralyzed with fear because we consume ourselves with that one letter word…..I.

How can I do that?  What if I look stupid?  What if I am not good enough?

Which ultimately leads us to the vicious cycle of poor pitiful me, and then turns into a ridiculous self-loathing saga.

How in the world can we get ourselves off of our minds?  I had a revelation to that question this week while reading this verse.

For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.  Ephesians 2:10

When we truly accept and love who God made us to be, there’s a divine freedom that floods the soul.  And through this beautiful freedom we slowly begin to allow ourselves to do the work he prepared for us long ago.

So guess what?  Instead of being trapped, agonizing over our thoughts and fears we end up moving into being completely consumed with God!

Have you been consumed with you or God lately?  How can you begin to switch your focus?  If you received this post via email, go to the bottom of the page and click on the link that has comment in it.  I would love to hear from you!

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Inspirational Coaching Minute

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For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do. Ephesians 2:10

Do you really see yourself as God’s Masterpiece?

When we love and accept who God has created us to be, it frees us to start doing the work he has planned for us to do all along.

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