ENCOURAGEMENT FOR TODAY- Today, You May Feel Forgotten

Today, you may feel forgotten, lost, and wonder if you have wasted a lifetime of efforts. You may wonder if it is worth the effort to push forward or even try to make a difference when wrong seems to pay and bad behavior seems to win. You will want to stop but do not.  Anyone can be ordinary except for you. Take that next step and PUSH forward.

You can do this! 

As always, if you have questions, comments, suggestions on topic areas or would like to share some of your story, please email me at  charlotte@charlottehunt.com. I would love to hear from you.

Take care,

Charlotte

Dream Madly, Pursue Wildly, Trust Completely tm

                                     

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Discovering Your Purpose and Calling 8-week Teleclass (May 13- July 1st)

Do you need help finding direction, passion and purpose for your life? Have struggles and obstacles removed hope, zeal and focus from your dreams?  Do you watch others realize their purpose and dreams and gain a sense of failure and loss because somewhere inside, you too long to be walking in your dreams for life? Do you need help in discovering the passions, themes, burdens, direction and purpose for your life?

Ask yourself this question, “If I had all the resources I needed, what would be my heart’s desire to DO or BE in life.”

Discovering Your Purpose and Calling Teleclass:

(Class limited to 15 participants)

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Charlotte Hunt (see bio below) will be hosting an 8-week Teleclass called “Discovering Your Purpose and Calling” on May 13- July 1st. The class will be held online and via toll-free phone conference call at 8:00 EST, 7:00 CST, 6:00 MST, 5:00 PCT.

During this teleclass, you will:

• Learn what your individual story is that defines your purpose (Your story is more than the events you remember)
• Identify the Themes, Passions, and Burdens of your life
• Identify the basis of your struggles and lack of direction
• Discover the hidden dreams of your life and how they connect to your gifts, talents and abilities
• Identify the dream stealers that are zapping the energy and potential from your life
• Have scheduled one-on-one time with Charlotte to individually discover your purpose and calling
• Classes will run 60-75 minutes each week. Class includes interactive handouts, the book, “A Purpose in the Pain, a study guide with personal assessments, encouragements, and a guide with fun projects to help you learn your story and discover purpose and calling in your life.  You will receive MP3’s of all sessions and access to a private Facebook group where you can have further interaction with Charlotte and the other teleclass participants.

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Special Price: $75.00

Make sure after purchase to click the link in the confirmation page from paypal to return to website. If you have any questions please contact us at info@charlottehunt.com.

Special Price: $60 without book

Charlotte Hunt is an award-winning author, national speaker and radio personality, teacher, counselor, retired international runway model, and encouragement expert who helps people and organizations to deal with areas of Control, Obstacles, Purpose, Personal responsibility and Overcoming pitfalls through her organization, Hunt for Personal Optimization.  

She has spoken before and mentored celebrities, organizations, political figures, educators, psychologists, district attorney’s offices, churches, communities, survivors of abuse, reformed prison inmates, and everyone in between-encouraging them to hope further than what their pain believes.  She has appeared on numerous radio and television programs and spoken nationally on the topics of overcoming obstacles, pursuing dreams and vision.

Her story and experiences have been featured on three national documentaries and two PBS specials, have impacted lives world-wide, and encouraged over 500 individuals to rededicate and commit their lives through her story’s viewing on The 700 Club.

She has authored five books, “A Purpose In The Pain: A Love Story”, “Walking Out The Journey Toward Vision and Purpose” Study, “Damaged Goods”,” Damaged Goods: Learning to Dream Again”, “Dream Madly, Pursue Wildly, and Trust Completely™: What You Wanted to Be When You Grew Up”, “A Confident Expectation: Encouragement, Stories, & Thoughts for Those Who Hope” and numerous audio CD’s.

 

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ASK MS. ENCOURAGEMENT – Why can’t I forgive the people who have hurt me badly?

QUESTION: Dear Ms. Encouragement, I was abused when I was a child and then I was betrayed by my best friend as an adult.  Why can’t I forgive the people who have hurt me badly?     – Broken and Bruised

ANSWER: Dear Broken and Bruised, first allow me to say that I am so sorry you were hurt so badly by others.  Regardless of the circumstances, nothing ever is acceptable when abuse, especially as a child, is concerned. Again, I am so sorry that you had to experience such pain and betrayal in your life.

Second, you asked why can’t you forgive the people who have hurt you.  The short answer is that you can easily forgive anyone, even those who hurt you badly.  However, it is difficult to forgive because of the beliefs that are attached to forgiving.  We often don’t want to forgive because we falsely believe forgiveness means reconciliation.  Just because we forgive someone does NOT mean that we have to be in a relationship with that person unless we desire.  In cases where harm is still in place, relationship might be a negative thing to do.

Another reason why we believe we cannot forgive is because the harm that was done to us was severe and the idea of forgiving that person is excusing what they did.  Forgiveness does not excuse any behavior and actually is not so much for the one doing the harm as it is for the one who received the harm.  Forgiveness helps us to say, “Because I choose not to allow you to have one more moment of control and power over my life, I am releasing you from the expectations I have of you to right a wrong or apologize.”  Forgiveness is for us so that we can move forward in our lives.  

Last, we can feel a sense of guilt concerning forgiveness because of what we read in the Lord’s prayer when Jesus states the reason why we should forgive is that God will not forgive us if we don’t. However, Paul states in Colossians 3:13  the reason why we should forgive is because Jesus forgave us everything when He died on the cross. The later is true.  When Jesus gave the Lord’s prayer, he had not died yet and therefore we were not under grace but the law.  To believe that God would not forgive us after Jesus’ death would make God a liar.  If Jesus died for all of our sins (past, present and future) that would mean God is saying, “Although you have already been forgiven of all your sins, what I really meant was that in the case of you not forgiving, I won’t really forgive unless you forgive.”  That does not make sense and makes God two-faced.  The reason why we should forgive others is simply because we have been forgiven everything.

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If you have questions regarding purpose, calling, struggles, your story, writing, personal growth or encouragement, send them to Ms. Encouragement to be answered for over 8k readers to see and be helped.  Send your questions to encouragement@charlottehunt.com

Take care,

Charlotte

Dream Madly, Pursue Wildly, Trust Completely tm

                                     

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ANNOUNCEMENT- Release of Charlotte’s new book, “A Purpose in the Pain” is Avaliable

Hey everyone, I wanted to announce that my latest book is available to you through my website before the official release. I am so excited about this book. As you know, I did not plan to write another book for a long while.  However, so many people in my life were struggling and going through suffering while believing that either they were doing something wrong or felt they wanted to give up. 

Each day marriages disintegrate, ministries fail, loved ones die, jobs and homes are lost and in the midst of our suffering, we struggle. Added to our suffering is the longing for purpose and meaning.  Added to our struggle is the guilt that we have done something wrong or our faith is lacking because of our strenuous efforts in the face of difficulties or opposition in the midst of our suffering. After a time, we give up hope and then stop.

“A Purpose in the Pain” shows a different perspective of struggling and suffering and how it could be a mark of purpose and calling, not failure or lack of faith.  This book is not about finding a way to escape suffering, but a story of a breathtaking journey of love through suffering.   “A Purpose In The Pain” is the true story about the unexpected, humorous, and miraculous ways God uses suffering and struggles to reveal His purpose, calling and plans for our lives.

“I would not wish the journey of my life upon anyone.  However, if given the choice to relive my life or change the events, knowing what I know now, I would not change one single moment.”  

ORDER YOUR COPY HERE

Take care,

Charlotte

Dream Madly, Pursue Wildly, Trust Completely tm

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