Genevieve's Everyday Miracles: 5 Tools For Pulling Weeds from Your Heart

How to cultivate the fruits of the Spirit in your life by uprooting the bad seeds

8/20/2016, By Genevieve Schmitt, Editor
Pulling weeds in our gardens is not unlike pulling the weeds from the garden of our heart. The similarities are endless.
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Genevieve's Everyday Miracles: Surrendering to Goodness

Knowing when to give up control and sail towards the light

2/21/2016, By Genevieve Schmitt, Editor, photos by Tricia Szulewski, Assistant Editor
Albert Einstein said, “There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.” I prefer the latter — that everything is a miracle.
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Genevieve's Everyday Miracles: The Moment We Realize We Are Loved

Recognizing when the love stops and seeds of anger take root

11/17/2015, By Genevieve Schmitt, Editor
Last night I watched Disney’s latest adaptation of Cinderella featuring real people, not animated characters, on the screen. Once in awhile I like to indulge in a Disney fairytale movie because the messages are always so simple and pure… and my soul was craving a good dose of sweetness.
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Genevieve's Everyday Miracles: How to Un-friend Someone in Real Life Gracefully

Doing so with love, forgiveness, and without regret

8/13/2015
I’ve wanted to write this article for some time but as you can imagine it’s a sensitive subject so I needed to be sure I was in a Godly frame of mind to craft it. Additionally, with it being summer in North America, the season in which we socialize most, I feel this article is aptly timed.
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Genevieve's Everyday Miracles: Regaining Balance When You Feel Off Center

Acts of restoration to refresh your soul

6/24/2015, By Genevieve Schmitt, Editor
I've had a busy four weeks of traveling with two work-related trips and am just now slipping back to that warm mindfulness that allows me to pen my Everyday Miracles. I recently was drawn back into old behavior patterns that rendered me off balance for a time. I humbly share with you what happened in hopes you'll harvest a nugget or two.
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Genevieve's Everyday Miracles: How Does Your Light Shine?

Plugging into the right power source

4/17/2015, By Genevieve Schmitt, Editor
When I first met Danielle I was taken by the peace and calmness she exuded. She illuminated with joy. My friendship with her blossomed and over time I learned what made her shine. I decided to live my life such that I too could harness this energy and live in that joyful, peaceful state. Little did I know what living in the light actually required of me.
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Genevieve's Everyday Miracles: The Miracle of Hope

Choosing the path of light instead of darkness

1/29/2015, Story and photos by Genevieve Schmitt, Editor
My heart was moved to write about hope this past week when I was faced over and over with the difficult circumstances of family and friends dealing with tough stuff.
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Everyday Miracles: What Looking In the Mirror Can Teach Us

Our "reflection" says a lot

12/21/2014, By Genevieve Schmitt, Editor
In order to grow emotionally and spiritually, it’s important to look back, as hard as it is, at behaviors, routines and cycles that have produced less than desirable outcomes in our lives. While we don’t want to dwell on the past, we do want to recognize patterns that are no longer working so we can start to form new fruit-bearing behaviors.
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Everyday Miracles: The Effects of Smiling on Purpose

Take the smile test!

9/4/2014, By Genevieve Schmitt, Editor
At some point in our lives—if we’re introspective enough, or if we desire change in our lives—we’ll take stock of our past and present so as to affect our future. I’ve been engaging in this exercise in small, manageable doses all my life, but never more than now, since hitting the milestone age of 50 in March.
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Everyday Miracles: Loosen Your Grip

Learning the unforced rhythms of grace

6/17/2014, By Genevieve Schmitt, Editor
No matter how long you’ve been riding a motorcycle, it’s likely that at one time or another you’ve found yourself riding with a very tight grip on the handlebars. Most times it’s when fear takes over or something triggers your anxiety level to go up.
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