5 Worship Songs for When You Need to Be Uplifted

Whenever I am feeling a little down or overwhelmed, I have found that music is one of the quickest ways to uplift my spirit and my soul. These five songs help me to put things in perspective and put me in a better mood. I hope they can do the same for you!

1. Tenth avenue north- control

“God You don’t need meBut somehow You want meOh, how You love meSomehow that frees meTo take my hands off of my lifeAnd the way it should go”https://youtu.be/kFfztu8-bBQ

2. Micah Tyler-Different

“I wanna be different

I wanna be changed

‘Til all of me is gone

And all that remains

Is a fire so bright

The whole world can see

That there’s something different

So come and be different

In me”

3. Stars Go Dim- You Are Loved

“You are loved

If your heart’s in a thousand pieces

If you’re lost and you’re far from reason

Just look up; know you are loved”

4. Casting Crowns- Just Be Held

“So when you’re on your knees and answers seem so far away. You’re not alone, stop holding on and just be held. Your world’s not falling apart, it’s falling into place” https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tIZitK6_IMQ

5. Zach Williams – Chain Breaker

“If you’ve got pain

He’s a pain taker

If you feel lost

He’s a way maker

If you need freedom or saving

He’s a prison-shaking Savior

If you’ve got chains

He’s a chain breaker”

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cd_xxmXdQz4

💖Corinne

DIY: Gratitude Tree

We are almost halfway through our gratitude challenge and it’s been a lot of fun! I’m glad to see so many of you on our social media accounts joining in! Be sure to check out our facebook and IG to see what’s going on!

On theme with our gratitude challenge we made a gratitude tree, to keep track of all the things we are grateful for! We put a little twist on ours though! On one side of the wood slice is written what we are grateful for and on the other side is a motivational message!

I’m going to be honest here, although I LOVED the idea, I wasn’t thrilled with the final product (at first!). However, when my three year old Parker’s eyes lit up and he fell in love with our new tree, I knew it was going to stay. For someone reason, when he looked at it the way he did, I was able to see it in a different light. That’s kind of how changing your perception works. You can look at something (a negative situation) one way but if you just change the way your looking at it, you can see it through new eyes and realize all of the wonderful things about it!

Now I couldn’t imagine walking into my kitchen without our gratitude tree! Pictures don’t do it justice, at all! It fills the space with so much love and joy, it almost radiates! And I believe it’s all the wonderful energy behind it and all the love that was put into making it.

To make your own gratitude tree you’ll need:

1. A vase (ours was from my wedding but here’s a similar one)
2. Gathered twigs
3. Chalkboard paint
4. Vase filler (rocks or sand work)
5. Chalk pen
6. Twine
7. Stickers (optional)
8. Small Wood Slices

Take your vase and fill it up with your filler half way, then arrange your twigs (make sure they are strong enough for your wood slices to hang! I’ve found the closet together your arrange the twigs the better, kind of in a bundle in the middle of the vase. Then fill the rest of the way with your rocks or sand to hold the twigs in place.

Next prepare your wood slices, paint or spray your chalkboard paint on. It’s optional but to make them perfectly round use a stencil. After they are dry, drill a small hole in the top and string through your twine to make your ornament.

Next write what you are grateful for on one side and if you want, place your sticker on the back. Hang your ornaments and voila! You have yourself a gratitude tree that will keep you motivated!

By putting your tree somewhere you will see it often, your more likely to feel grateful multiple times through out the day! It’s a great reminder! It’s like when I see it I can help but feel happy😊

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💖Corinne

30 Day Gratitude Challenge: Welcome to Week Two

The Beautiful Power of Gratitude

Welcome back for another week of gratitude. We are so excited that you are here to join us! The power of gratitude can bring so much joy into your life. We really do hope you have been enjoying yourself! It’s important to find joy in the little moments and have fun! It doesn’t have to be so serious all the time! The more you take the time to “play” and enjoy life, the more joyful you will feel and realize that life is full of fun and has a lot to offer you!

So, grab your journals and bring an open heart and invite the beautiful power of gratitude to take charge in your life.

The prompts below will tell you what you should do each day for the next seven days!

Welcome to Week Two

1. Write 10 things you are grateful for!
2. Make a conscious effort to say thank you all through out the day! Say thank you to God when you wake up. Say thank you to the person who holds the door open for you. Say thank you to your mail carrier or paper boy! Say thank you to the bus driver. Say thank you to the cashier…etc.
3. Its okay to acknowledge the negative things but don’t hang out there all day! Understand that negative things may happen, but realize that your reaction to them is what matters. For today, every time something negative happens, really think about the silver lining. Turn your negatives into positives!
4. Today really be thankful for the job you have or the work you do. This could be a corporate job or your work as a stay at home mother and homemaker. Even if your job is not your dream job. Think of all the positive things about your position. The more positive things you think about you current position and the more gratitude you feel towards it, the more likely you are to manifest your dream job into your life. By being more positive and grateful, you will have a better attitude. This might bring you that promotion you’ve been looking for or a raise. It may open up your mind to more opportunities that were there before but you couldn’t see because you were too busy complaining. Write a list of 10 things you have to be grateful for about your job/position.
5. Sit and think about all the abundance in your life. At first you may think that you are lacking. However, if you look back through your life and try to make a mental list of ALL the times you’ve ever received money, you’d probably lose count. Try to think back and say thank you for all the monetary things you’ve ever received! Did you have food to eat, growing up? Did you go to school and have text books? Do you have a job and receive a paycheck? Have you ever received a gift? All of those things cost money. Really be grateful for the money for your life and you will attract more to you.
6. Go a WHOLE day without complaining. Really try and focus on not complaining today, it may seem easy, but you’ll probably catch yourself slipping up. Make a conscious effort not to complain but if you start to, turn it around with….but I really like this about it or …..but she really is great at this. And turn the complaint into a praise or compliment. Can you go a whole day without complaining?
7. Write in your journal today about something that made you smile 🙂

Giveaway

That’s it! I hope you have a great week and remember that we have a giveaway during our 30 day gratitude challenge that you won’t want to miss! You can check it out here.

Please leave us a comment to let us know how the challenge is going for you? Tell us what you have to be grateful for this week. Or ask us any questions you may have!

💖Corinne

30 Day Gratitude Challenge: Welcome to Week One *giveaway*

Grab your journal and an open heart and invite the beautiful power of gratitude to take charge in your life.

The prompts below will tell you what you should do each day of this week!

Make sure to read through to the bottom of this post to find out about the giveaway😊

Week One

1. Write 10 things you are grateful for!
2. Turn negative thoughts into positive ones. Every time you think of a worse case scenario through out the day, turn it around and think of 3 good ways it will turn out. Training your brain like this will cause you to start automatically think more positively!
3. Write for 2 minutes and come up with every possible thing you have to be grateful for. Use the stopwatch on your phone or another timing device.
4. Sit (in silence, if possible) and practice sincerely FEELING grateful. Focus on your heart and your feelings and less on your thoughts.
5. Write a list of accomplishments and then think and say thank you to the person or thing that made it possible.
6. Who are you most thankful for? Write a letter telling them! It’s up to your whether you give it to them or not!
7. Take a walk, look around and see everything you have to be thankful for.

The feeling you have when doing these practices is what matters the most. However you’ll get better with time and start to feel more grateful because that’s how practicing gratitude work. The more work you put into feeling grateful the more you will start automatically feeling it all the time.

For the first prompt above I like to write my gratitude list in the format below. Thanking someone or something allows you to feel more grateful. Customize how you write your list in a way that allows YOU to feel the most grateful.

1. Thank you God for my beautiful boys, they have taught me so much about love and patience.

2. Thank you God for the home I live in, a place to keep my family safe and warm.

Etc….

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Now for the giveaway!! Just for participating in our gratitude challenge, you will get a chance to win a sweet little prize pack!

Someone will win their choice of one of these beautiful promoted journals!!

Weekly Prayer Project

52 Lists of Happiness

Beautiful pen set, a personalized note and a target gift card to keep and one to give to a friend so that you all can get some coffee or some things for your journals.

There are a couple different ways to enter:

1. Follow our blog and write a comment below!

2.Like our FB page and comment on the gratitude post!

3. Follow our IG account (@KindnessCurated) and comment on the photo that matches the featured photo above on this post. Comment with a 💖 so we know you are coming from the blog! If you are also entering on IG make sure to leave your IG handle below in your comment☺️

You will receive an entry into the giveaway each time.

This giveaway is in no way sponsored and is just a way for us to say thank you for joining us! The winner will be announced on the 30th of November!

Check in with us through out the week to tell us how your gratitude challenge is going!!

Magic Monday Kindness: Love Notes

We believe the way in which you start your week is a good indicator of how the rest of your week may go. So why not make yours and someone else’s week a little more special with a little magic Monday kindness!

Here at the Kindness Curated, we’re all about promoting kindness and happiness to the rest of the world! Remember that even though you are just one person, the impact you have on other people does matter! The gesture does not have to be grand for the effect to be wide. An act of kindness can spread like wild fire from one person to another. Keep this in your heart and remember it. “No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.” Aesop.

Please leave us a comment below telling us what you are doing on kindness Monday or any other day to make the world a better place!

This Monday we’ve placed love notes throughout town for people to find💖💖💖

“You are wonderfully made! You were made for amazing things! Don’t let anyone tell you differently. Be yourself! Be bold! And you can change the world for the better! #kindnessmatters Your words, actions, and thoughts DO make a difference. Always love! Forgive people when they have bad days. But also remember to love yourself! The world needs more people like you!”💖

“You’re some kind of wonderful”

Spreading cheer at the pumpkin patch! “You are worthy of a beautiful life!”

💖C+S