✨ Living in the Slow Lane & Expecting Good Things (Choosing Ease Over Anxiety)
- Jul 13, 2025
- 3 min read
Updated: Aug 1, 2025
✨ Living in the Slow Lane & Expecting Good Things
This season of my life? It’s about peace. It’s about trusting God completely, pivoting without panic, and choosing ease over anxiety.. Not just hoping for peace, but expecting it. Not begging for love and blessings, expecting them. When you’re fully dependent on God, you can stop bracing for disappointment and start welcoming goodness.
Expect happiness. Expect love. Expect favor. Expect ease. Expect blessings.
Why? Because the God you serve promised it. He IS a Promise Keeper!!!
✨ Surrender & Thanking God for Closed Doors
The word at the top of my vision board is “EASE” I have it hanging on the wall at my backdoor, so I can see it every time I leave my house and every time I come home. A daily reminder that I don’t chase chaos. I trust God’s hand on my life.
Part of that trust is saying thank you for closed doors. That job you thought you had to have? Those people you swore you needed? That opportunity you prayed for? Beauty, it wasn’t for you. It might’ve looked like a blessing on paper, but it didn’t align with the bigger blessing God had waiting for you. I know it is easier said than done, keep praying to be delivered from the initial disappointment...then Thank Him!
Sometimes the rejection is protection. Sometimes the no is making room for a better YES.
Better is coming...Believe that.
✨ Strong Affirmations for a Soft, God-Led Life
Repeat these as often as you need. Out loud. In the mirror. In the car. Whispered before bed. Even if it feels awkward at first, keep speaking life over yourself. One day it’ll feel like truth, because it is.
I am covered by God’s grace, even when I can’t see it.
Peace is my birthright. I don’t have to earn it.
I trust God’s timing, even when it doesn’t match mine.
What’s meant for me will find me with ease.
I release what I cannot control.
I am not built for constant stress. I choose calm.
Closed doors protect me. Open doors prepare me.
I deserve a life that feels soft, safe, and sacred.
I will not shrink. I will not settle. I was made for more.
I expect happiness, love, peace, and blessings daily.
Abundance is my birthright
✨ Bible Verses to Confirm These Affirmations
📖 Ephesians 3:20-21 (NIV) "Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen."
📖 Isaiah 26:3 (NIV)“You will keep in perfect peace those whose minds are steadfast, because they trust in you.”
📖 Jeremiah 29:11 (NIV)“For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.”
📖 Romans 8:28 (NIV)“And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.”
✨ Final Prayer✨
Heavenly Father, Thank You for being my constant peace. For every closed door that protected me and every open door that prepared me. Lord, I surrender my plans and expectations to You. Help me trust that Your timing is perfect and Your promises are true. Remind me daily that I am worthy of happiness, love, peace, and blessings, not because of what I’ve done, but because of who You are. Cover my mind, my heart, and my home in Your presence. Ease my spirit. Quiet my fears. Keep me in Your peace. Amen.
I believe in you...But more importantly, I want you to believe in yourself. You were created for ease. For joy. For soft, sacred, God-led living.
Drop a 🙏🏽 if you’re claiming this life with me.
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