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    Growth Lessons
    Growth Lessons
    Growth Lessons
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    Growth Lessons

    By Naty Matos

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    Growth Lessons is an inspirational devotional with the blueprint for the everyday Christian Living. It's a journey through the scriptures of how to face normal every day situations that we can take for granted and how to submit them to the will of God.

    This book is a must read for the new believer to understand the practical concepts of the Christian Lifestyle. It’s also a must read for the seasoned believer to affirm their faith through those details that seem unimportant but matter the most in the journey with God.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherNaty Matos
    Release dateAug 29, 2012
    ISBN9781476365794
    Growth Lessons
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    Naty Matos

    Naty Matos was born in the city of New York. She grew up in the beautiful Island of Puerto Rico and now lives in the city of Atlanta. She holds a Bachelor's Degree in Clinical Psychology with a Minor in Mass Media Communications and a Master's Degree in Mental Health Counseling. Naty writes Christian fiction and non-fiction. She maintains a blog on Christian Living Topics at www.therisingmuse.com

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      Growth Lessons - Naty Matos

      In the Beginning I Found My Long Lost Love

      If you just glanced at the pages in this book you might wonder, What is this all about? Are these just made-up stories or the life of the author? The answer is neither and both. About two years ago I found myself at one of the lowest points in my life. I was a believer submerged in an abusive relationship, struggling and not knowing what to do.

      I had to face who I was and what I believed in. What I realized as the journey began was that it was not about the idea of who I was or what I believed in, but the core of what was really inside of me. It was the time to ask the tough questions that in the past I had never dared to ask.

      Like many people, I grew up in church, believing in God, accepting Jesus as my Lord and Savior, knowing here and there what the Bible says, but not necessarily making that Word a part of me. When there was nothing around; just God and me, I had to make a choice. Who was I going to be, someone who believed, or someone who was in a real relationship? I had already believed I had nothing to lose, so I went for the relationship.

      Ironically, since my younger years, I had always loved to write. Even though I am a chatterbox, there was no better way for me to be real and intimate with my feelings than on paper. When life started to get complicated I stopped writing and without me noticing, I had stopped living. Looking back, I realize that my writing stopped when I drifted away from God. I’ve seen that happen a lot in my brothers and sisters. When they drift away from God they either stop using their gifts or they misuse them.

      On my way back to an intimate relationship with God, the first thing I did was to begin to write again. This time it was because the loneliness was so overwhelming I needed to somehow let out every experience and feeling of the moment. In my selfishness I thought that I was in an unreachable place where only I lived, and nobody could see or understand where I was. I was so wrong.

      Upon coming back home to my first love, Jesus, the veil of lies fell off my eyes and I started to see the light. I saw how there were not a few, but a lot, of people who could relate to my circumstances and my issues. I was fortunate to run into a Christian-based program called Celebrate Recovery. Through that program I started working toward understanding my purpose in life and where I fit into God’s plan.

      What does this have to do with this book? Well, once I had reunited with Jesus and my writing, I was like a four-year-old filled with questions. One day in meditation, I realized that maybe I was not the only one with those questions and I decided to write. Every time a situation arose; I wanted to know what the Bible said about it. How would God want me to see it? How did it happen? And like a Girl Scout on a mission (bear in mind I was never even a Brownie), I would research for my answers.

      Now that I was stripped of my selfishness (at least the beginning stages of it) I wanted to share. And I wanted to share because that’s what we do with our friends and our loved ones. When we go to a restaurant or a movie that we like, we can’t shut up about our new discovery. The same can be true for the Good News of the Word of God.

      So you ask me, What did you write? I’m sharing a year filled with different meditations, inspirations and answers to questions that I asked myself throughout my first year in recovery after God took me out of that terrible situation. This was my outlook as an inspirational writer and as part of my journey out of darkness.

      Who knows? You may like them too…

      Kindness

      I like to understand the things around me. One of the things you will see over and over is my need to define key words so that you and I can be on the same page about the things that are being discussed.

      I couldn’t find a satisfying definition of kindness in the dictionary. The synonyms I found were a little bit more relatable to an understanding of what this is. I found that generosity, charity, sympathy, compassion and tenderness were some of the things that are compared to kindness.

      The word of God calls us to be kind to one another (Ephesians 4:32), and to love one another, including our enemies. I think this is where it gets tricky. Loving our families and friends is almost normal, even on our bad days. Loving someone who is not particularly nice to us or who has hurt us can be a very challenging thing. However, I learned firsthand the power of a kind heart to change your relationship with someone who right now you wish you didn’t have to see.

      Years ago, I worked with this lady. To my recollection I had not done anything to her and she had not done anything to

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