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Trisha Keehn

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Trisha Keehn is a creative writer fueled by a lifetime of faith. She is part of the Life.Church and YouVersion Bible App creative writing team, and uses her broadcast news background to help companies choose their words wisely. Trisha is a wife, mom, coffee connoisseur, lover of libraries, and a savvy traveler.

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The Key To Living a Free Life

alive, freedomWhat’s holding you hostage? Addiction? Your emotions? Decisions that have drained relationships and dried up your checking account? If you’re desperate to break free from the bondage, try giving God a chance. A heart-to-heart chance. He didn’t come to make bad people good. Jesus came to make dead people alive. Message me if you’re struggling with where to start.

I was once captive until He set me free. I’m here to tell you it’s a conscious choice to live in freedom daily. I’ve tasted the darkness and it left me hopeless but this life with Jesus has given me peace, abounding hope, an overflow of joy and unrelenting love.

I love you too much to not share the key that will unlock your life from these chains holding you down. Isn’t it about time to get free from a dead life and start living?

 

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Gone, But Not Forgotten

happy birthday, cakeThough some leave before we can say goodbye, tender memories of that life together can still shed tears.

Fear says we’ll forget with time, but as the calendar pages flip, now nearly 20 years later, my soul still lights up on October 17. It’s the birthday of someone special to my soul, a partner in crime for 14 years.

Special people leave the earth with their footprints stamped on our soul. We can choose to celebrate the gift of their life or sulk in the sadness that they are gone.

If you look closely, you’ll catch a glimpse of my brother’s gratitude for life, forever stained on the hearts he met. His charm still echoes in our ears.

Captivated by his character and blessed to be by his side, not a year goes by that I don’t celebrate this life we were given.

It’s only 10 a.m. and the cake has already been cut. I’ve got a ticket to the movies with dinner and dessert at a favorite restaurant. It’s a sweet day I’ve got mapped out in his memory. Cheers, Michael Keehn! And Happy Birthday, Brother. ‪ #‎brotherbyblood‬ ‪#‎brotherbyfaith‬ ‪#‎butfirstcake‬

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Be Available

Save Perfection For The Able

God didn’t ask for the able, He asked for you to become available.

The breeze coming through my window in the morning catches the fragrance of my first cup of coffee brewing by 5 a.m.

Suddenly, I have energy just by the scent and I’m tossing back the covers to reach for that cup of greatness.

I begin with an offering of my heart and then I release control over my pen. I’m too scared to try on my own, so I read through the Word and wrestle to my knees. My soul is intoxicated by the aroma of the Spirit. It fills my being and I consume slowly and deeply, as I do with my coffee.

There are many refills of both before I ever pick up that pen. The last bit is brimming when I feel ready to let it pour out on the pages and speak to someone else who may need what I just digested.perfection, piles of writing

My past was buried under pages of perfection and I became too short on time to sort it out. Truthfully, there were struggles like fear and defeat that paralyzed my pen and made it easier to walk away from the words written down.

My control was carrying baggage with more than a thousand words from this journey through the valleys and mountain peaks that wasn’t worth much waiting on the fictitious day I could piece it together perfectly.

God is writing stories every day. We need only to be available. And willing to release control over the way He wants to write it.

fear cripples, creativity, professionals were amateursWhen I write in cadence with the story of life, that’s what letting go of perfection looks like. These are drafts rough around the edges and it takes a lot of trust to let you see it. It takes a whole lot more faith to believe my Father in Heaven is going to work with it. And yet, that’s the life we were called to live, a life of faith.

Living in our creative expressions takes faith. God is painting a new picture now, of a girl running wild and free with the gift He gave her at birth.

The enemy has a plan for you, and it includes anything that will prevent a preview of this portrait the Artist has been painting.paint the world, share your talent, God's gifts

So put it out there. Let go of control. Fear cripples creativity. Every professional started scribbling somewhere as an amateur. Practice by putting these gifts on display and watch what the Lord does with them.

Refine and rework the ridges tomorrow if you must, but for today splash the world in shades and strokes with whatever tools you have because time is running out. Perfection may have held you hostage but here’s permission to persevere.

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How To Know God’s Love

John 15:9, Remain in my love, Jesus' loveOverthinking ruins you. Ruins the situation, twists it around, makes you worry and just makes everything much worse than it actually is.

Set your focus on the love of Jesus. Live in it. Breathe it. Constantly remind yourself of it.

We’ll know His love has invaded our hearts if, even in the pain, we want to see each other as brothers and sisters dearly loved, and held tightly by the Lord.

Anything that takes you away from loving other people is not worth your energy to think on.

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Consistency isn’t a Moment

love, consistency, potential, John MaxwellIt’s important to love where you are in life today. If you can’t find joy and peace where you are, you won’t find it where you’re going. It’s a heart issue, between you and God. Make peace with your situation. Happiness is based on your happenings, but joy roots itself deep in the soul and doesn’t waver with your circumstance.

If you won’t give three people 100% of your efforts today, you won’t give 3,000 that commitment either. It’s an attitude. Don’t settle on just winging it through life… work for it! You have the potential for more. Don’t wait for an opportunity, make it the right opportunity now.

“Consistency will give you a compounding that no other trait will.” – John Maxwell. When you deliver every day and consistently add value to people there comes a time of return to it. It’s not in a moment, it is progressive. So practice being consistent where you’re at, with the people right in front of you.

Ideas for consistency could be showing your appreciation for loved ones, greeting your job with enthusiasm and giving your best effort, making it to the gym because that’s how you love your body, choosing wise people to surround yourself with, or choosing even wiser places to hang out in.

Take my hand, let’s love this place where we are and give it our best. Today, could be our day of deliverance. I’m ready for it, are you?

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Worry is a Waste of Imagination

worry, imaginationNever be ashamed to admit that you can’t do it all.

Wisdom is recognizing what season you’re in and living according to that.

Change is the essence of life; be willing to surrender where you’re at for where you could go.

My advice is to keep God first, and His strength will give you what you need to make the rest of your decisions.

We all have different responsibilities, demands and distractions. When you choose to walk in the fear of the Lord, then it’s His job to find and provide the tools you need to get His work done.

 

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Your Destiny Can’t Collect Dust

Even the pain works for your good

Every time God gives you a way out, you find a new way into a mess. Don’t let the fear of failure keep you from trying. No one has all the answers.
 
There’s nothing on your resume that should make God choose you, but He did.
 
Ignore the voice in your mind bringing up your flaws because no matter how many times you fail, no one can stop what God has your name on.
 
Your daddy owns the company. Nobody can apply for your position. You don’t have to be afraid of the competition. You can walk right in with the failures of your past and before you even speak, your Father in Heaven, the God of the universe says, “You’re Hired!”God's goodness, destiny, pain
 
Your destiny can’t collect dust. Even your pain will work for your good.
 
Not because you are good, but because God is good.
 
He is working behind the scenes right now. The heavens are shining up their edges because God knows you’re going to make it!
 
It’s time to let some things go. Where others are judging you, God justifies you. Don’t let their view of your circumstance keep you tied up.
For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison… (2 Corinthians 4:17).  Tell yourself what you’re facing today is just some light work. Let God take the heavy load by trusting when you pray that He’s got this one.

I’m praying in the power of Christ’s blood, that God’s power is working out the next phase in your life. May He restore in you the joy of your destiny… your salvation! In the end, you win!

God, finish what you started in us. Thank you for the pain, because only then did I realize how much you loved me. When others were throwing me away, you still loved me right where I was. Even when I was giving up on myself, You never did.

I declare nothing can separate me from the love of Christ. There’s nothing I can do that will make my God walk away and stop pursuing me. Nothing. Nothing. Nothing. He loves me in my mess, even still!

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What’s Your Success Based On

thomas edison quote, success, close to success, failuresAre the goals you’ve set about performance and validation or your personal progress to be a better version of yourself?
 
When you set up a life focused on impressing others, you’ll be tempted to determine your self-worth based on the attention. Eventually, you may find yourself frustrated by the fleeting, fickle feelings and label your life a failure. You cannot achieve success based on a forced ability to impress.
 
Focus on pursuing challenges that develop character and opportunities to learn and expand your expertise. Try something new. In the last year, I’ve taken classes in swing dance, hip hop dance and paddle boarding. I recently started studying ‘doodling’ (with purpose, instead of boredom). Chances are, you won’t see me on Dancing with the Stars or art on display in the Smithsonian. I do these things to stretch and grow God’s craftsmanship in me.
 
It’s okay to make mistakes. Open doors to make many more of them. Believe you have what it takes. Remind yourself that each stumble and fall is still another step forward from where you were.
So what does success look like for you? Don’t give up on yourself just because the world gives up on you. You’re so close… stand up and try again.
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You are Worthy

worthy, stars, brilliance, Ephesians 2:10, trishakeehn.comThe bite was only the culmination of a demise that began when Eve entered a conversation with the devil. And that’s what we do a lot. We talk. We rehearse on a daily basis what we don’t have or who we are not. We focus on the areas of our “garden” that seem just out of our reach or control. We take the seed of discontentment offered by the devil and inform our souls of our dissatisfaction, unhappiness, or displeasure.

We have a choice.

We can choose to believe what God’s Word says about who we are and who we are created to be, or we can entertain the lies planted by the enemy of our souls and cultivated by the culture we live in.

You are Worthy. That is what God says about who you are as a child of God created for His glory.

You don’t have to seek anyone else’s approval for the life God has given you to live. You don’t have to apologize for the strength, fortitude, courage, talent, beauty, or brains your Creator has given you.

We all are “God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do” (Ephesians 2:10). #KingdomWoman

 

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God Will Always Provide

It just might look different than what we had in mind

God will provide, Philippians 4:19, trishakeehn.comFaith involves looking beyond what you can see or the limitations that you face.

Maybe you don’t have enough time in the day to do all you need to do. Or maybe you don’t have the resources to carry out what needs to be done. It could be that you are struggling to raise your kids alone. Or it could be that you have received a report from your doctor that is not good.

Maybe your bank account is low, and you are doing all you can to find a job… and yet, God is asking you to still honor Him with a portion of your money.

Whatever the case, faith acts on the truth that even though you don’t have enough, God has more than enough, and He has promised to supply all that you need.

Philippians 4:19 And this same God who takes care of me will supply all your needs from his glorious riches, which have been given to us in Christ Jesus.‪#‎KingdomWoman‬