https://open.spotify.com/episode/0PpLJfHcRB4pilUoIdQVnQ?si=OrwOnvryTMKBySOdXelxuQ https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/can-i-have-a-word-with-you/id1628668707?i=1000617658412 https://anchor.fm/canihaveawordwithyou/episodes/Unpacking-IMPACT-e25u5b4 This episode is dedicated to my father-in-law Ron Carter. He passed from Esophageal Cancer 2 years ago today. June 19th at 11:08. Please check out my blog entitled “Where’s Ron” ( https://heathercarterwrites.com/2021/07/12/wheres-ron/ ) to hear more of the story. I hope you will find this episode helpful as you also navigate life’sContinue reading “Unpacking IMPACT”
Category Archives: blessings
Unpacking GRANTED
When you think of GRANTED what comes to mind? Maybe being taking or taken for? Or maybe received as a gift?In this episode, Bruce and Heather unpack the two ways this word can impact our lives.GRANTEDGreedy | GratefulRegardless | RespectedAssumed | AppreciatedNarcissistic | Not but for GraceTaken as owed | ThankfulExpected | EmbracedDemanded | DeeplyContinue reading “Unpacking GRANTED”
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Take away my difficulties
“…Take away my difficulties, that VICTORY over them may bear witness to those I help of Your POWER, Your LOVE, and Your WAY OF LIFE.” This is part of a prayer I pray every morning. If you notice, it does not suggest that God not allow difficulties. Just by asking Him to “take them away”,Continue reading “Take away my difficulties”
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Excuses Excuses Excuses
I used to journal. Back when you actually had to write, with your own hand, In a notebook. No laptops or IPADS. Recently I found some of those journals up at my moms. One thing I learned from perusing them is that I was an idiot much of the time. And completely oblivious to what,Continue reading “Excuses Excuses Excuses”
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Never say “Never”
I remember two specific times that I used the word “never” with supreme confidence. The first one I only “remember” because there were witnesses who tell me this is what I declared: “I will never drive a min-van.” Of course, this was only brought up because guess what I now drive? Not only do IContinue reading “Never say “Never””
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Garage Sale Gossip
I knew there was more than one reason I haven’t had a garage sale for about 15 years. It’s not only because I get offended when people don’t buy the junk I don’t want or that my clothes labeled “FREE” are still in the driveway the next morning. It’s also because, after doing the math,Continue reading “Garage Sale Gossip”
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Twilight Zone
Sometimes God shows up in one of those “Twilightzone-ish (insert music here…)” moments that give us goose bumps. Every once in awhile this happens to me. And even though some might be skeptical, I really just need to talk about one that happened to me last week. Bear with me, because I need to giveContinue reading “Twilight Zone”
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God and Heather officially kick Leukemia in the butt!!!!!
And all of YOU who have been praying and praying!!! I got my results back from Washington State regarding my bone marrow biopsy-NO NEED FOR A BONE MARROW TRANSPLANT!!! Hopefully one more round of Chemo and call it a day ( with a lot of monitoring and tracking for awhile). There is “NO morphologic evidence ofContinue reading “God and Heather officially kick Leukemia in the butt!!!!!”
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What am I doing wrong?
Ok…this is a sad story. It’s about me, but since it isn’t something I remember saying, I can tell you as if it were someone else and tell you that it breaks my heart that someone would think this. Last time I was in for chemo I was talking with the nurse that was withContinue reading “What am I doing wrong?”
Dangit…
I have been looking up the definition of blessed and blessing. Have some interesting perspective and have had some recent conversations with people about what it really looks like to be “blessed.” I read my 4 devotionals to see if there was something from today’s reading that God might want me to use. Well, it’sContinue reading “Dangit…”
