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Melanie S. Chitwood
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Doing the Best We Can

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everybody's got something hard

Everybody’s Got Something Hard

Everybody’s got something hard in their lives. A situation they can’t see their way around or through.  A person who’s a struggle. Finances or work that stresses. Health that is failing or weakening. Children going a direction they never imagined. A marriage crumbling. Faith that seems faltering more than fulfilling. An accumulation of hard things,…
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satan's lies

Why We Need to Understand the Source of Our Self-Judgy Thoughts

My last post was about how we sometimes let the scale define us, instead of God’s truth. If it’s not our thoughts about the scale and our weight, most of us have been sidetracked by some kind of self-judgy thought.  The strategy I use to combat critical thoughts (as I shared in this blog post)…
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That number on the scale you’ve been battling with? That number doesn’t define you.

That number you’ve wrestled with for more years than you want to count. That number that seems to go up and up. That number you’re never satisfied with. That number doesn’t define you. Those tight jeans don’t define you. That muffin top doesn’t define you. That stomach that’s bigger than you want it to be….
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love others

What If We Loved Others More Than We Judged Them?

What if I loved more, judged less? That’s the question that filled my heart one morning during my quiet time with God. When I looked up some verses about judging, Jesus’ words from Matthew 7:1-2 pierced me: “ ‘Do not judge others, and you will not be judged. For you will be treated as you…
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How to Give Yourself Grace Instead of Judgment

Welcome to my Doing the Best We Can Blog! I’m so glad you’re here. I’m doing the best I can is a phrase I adopted many years ago out of complete desperation. Let me tell you a story of how it began. Shopping at a favorite store for a new dress, I remember thinking, I…
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