2023 If It Was Up To Me

BIG Life Devotional | Daily Devotional for Women

Pamela Crim | Daily Devotional for Women

Religion & Spirituality, Education, Christianity, Society & Culture, Self-improvement

5 • 792 Ratings

🗓️ 23 December 2025

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Sometimes God’s blessings don’t exactly look or feel like blessings. Sometimes they feel like an inconvenience. Sometimes they look like an unwelcome change. Sometimes blessings come in the form of everything you think you want absolutely falling apart. Mary had her life planned out. This little small town girl was engaged to Joseph, they were […]

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0:00.0	Congratulations. Your gift of a new day is here. Ready to live it big. You're listening to the Big Life Devotional podcast. Now, here's Pamela to get you fired up for all God has available for you today. Well, good morning, beautiful. Welcome to a brand new day of life. Happy Tuesday, my friends. We are in the week of Jesus' birthday. We're just two days away from Christmas now. I hope that you woke up. Happy to be alive today. Counting your blessings, refusing the invitation of stress and overwhelm. Uh-uh.
0:37.7	That is not the way we celebrate Jesus.
0:42.7	Yes, praying that your heart is full today.
0:46.1	And we're going to get the day started right with a great Christmas devotional.
0:50.5	Before we do, it's Tuesday, and I get to announce to you any retreat opportunities that we have
0:56.0	coming up. So I'm going to be honest with you. We opened up registration for our Venice, Italy
1:01.4	retreat, and it sold out in four minutes, guys, like for real. I sent out a text message to everybody on the text list for retreats
1:14.3	and four minutes. All the spots were gone for our Venice, Italy retreat at the very end of May.
1:23.7	So that retreat is sold out, but we do have a waiting list in case any spots reopen.
1:30.4	And we do also have a couple spots left for previously opened retreats.
1:36.5	So if you want to just check out the schedule of retreats, see what retreats have open spots,
1:41.5	maybe add your name to the waiting list of any previously sold
1:45.2	out retreats just in case spots reopen. Just go to the website, biglife retreat.com. Again, it's
1:52.8	biglife retreat.com. I would love to share Hawaii or Bali. Both of those have resale
1:59.7	tickets available right now. Amalfi Coast in Italy. resale tickets available right now.
2:01.8	Amalfi Coast in Italy, that has tickets available right now.
2:05.7	So I would love to go somewhere beautiful with you and share an adventure in 2026.
2:10.2	Big Life Retreat.com.
2:11.8	Okay, ready?
2:13.0	Christmas Devotional, here we go.
2:15.6	The title of today's episode of the Big Life Devotional podcast is,
2:20.5	if it was up to me. Sometimes God's blessings don't exactly look or feel like blessings.
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