Carey Bailey

Dream Team

Sleep! Who needs it?

"What are you going to give up or decrease to make room for your God-sized dream?" she asks Well the answer to that is EASY!!! SLEEP!! If I could skip sleep for perhaps 2 weeks I could make so much progress with the dreams that stir in my heart. So there you have it I am going to decrease sleep. No? What? I can't do that? Oh, no! What now??? Here is the deal. I have so many things on my "to-do" list. So many things in my head that need writing, so many things on the blog that need tweaking,  ...

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Lent/Easter

Pin God 1st! The Commitment & Daily Reading Plan.

A year ago I wrote this. I was needing some help making sure I was choosing God BEFORE all the various social media outlets in the morning. It was so easy for me to use Pinterest to wake up and inspire me. Relate? It was so easy to waste minutes on facebook and then be “out of time” to do any kind of morning Bible reading. Understand? So I decided I was going to switch to an old school alarm clock and that way I would not be tempted by my super duper smart phone in the morning. It worked.  ...

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Dream Team

Take that...and that...and that Fear!

Hello Fear! Meet NINJA Carey! (insert cool ninja sound effect) I am done with you. Done! You get no.more.of.me!!! I let you in. I let you steal and rob. I gave you an ear. I let you manipulate. And now…now you are shunned, outcast, and ninja kicked! SMACK…take that! I am done acting like a disciple in a boat in the midst of a storm. Guess what, Fear? I got Jesus with me. He is all powerful, all knowing, and 10 billion times more exciting than you! He has the ability to calm the storm with  ...

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Reviews

God is My Refuge: A Review

Job transition for my husband. Major surgery for my mom. Sickness for my son. Sleep woes for my daughter. That is just a glimpse of a few of the things we have going on as a family this week. I am sure you have your own list. To me this is simply life. Ask me next week and I am certain things will have been subtracted and something added. I live with JOY not because everything is ideal and perfect but rather because I have Christ in my heart. He is the one fighting my battles for me.  ...

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