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My Perfect Life
All Posts, Empowerment, insight and awareness, self growth, Self Reflection, self-actualization Jennifer Lehr's BlogFor as long as I can remember, I've had this idea of a perfect life. Maybe because as a child, teenager and young adult, I felt forsaken by God, I felt trapped in my actual life. I didn’t know how to get from the life I had to the untarnished and perfect life I wanted.

The Pain of an Opening Heart
All Posts, Emotional Healing, Self Reflection Jennifer Lehr's BlogIt hurts for our hearts to open. Like when the blood has been cut off from a limb and begins to flow back in, it pricks and tingles, the intensity worsening as the oxygen-rich blood rushes in to feed the cells and nerves. The cells and nerves…

Showing Our Brokenness
All Posts, Marriage & Relationship Help, Self Reflection, Self-Help Jennifer Lehr's BlogOn the deck, there are a small group of sparrows eating the birdseed that has scattered everywhere from the feeder above. It is a fairly peaceful day after a weeklong visit from relatives. The sun is shining. The ocean is blue. This moment…

What If I Decided That My Life Is My Friend?
All Posts, Emotional Healing, Empowerment, Self Reflection, Self-Help Jennifer Lehr's BlogAs I watch people struggle in their lives (and because it is not my life I often have more perspective then they do), I sometimes see what they need to let go of. Maybe they are getting sick because it is the only way they can begin to relate…