Published by Learning from the past; dealing with emotional upheavals that have seemingly had you in bondage for a season, reflecting on childhood mistakes or memories and even cutting off all ties to a relationship that may try to trip you up toward your forward moving progress. Being in transition for a period in your life is a great thing; however traumatic or hard it may seem, just keep in mind, “And this too shall pass.”
This is what I have called my transitional time in my own life. No one is exempt from this time, period. It’s a stage where we tend to go deep into the crevasses of our minds and hearts to search out ourselves. When you look into the mirror each day, are you pleased with that person looking back? Are you at peace? Do you seem to talk to yourself about who you are, where you are and have become over the course of your life? I’m no shrink, but I dare say, this is the most natural course of action in all our lives.
We need to wake up each day with the thought of a new beginning for ourselves and those we come in contact with. Yesterday is gone forever and there is not anything that can be done when the sun goes down on it, however, there is this new day to begin again with new hopes, dreams and aspirations for an even better day ahead. Speak life into those persons you come into contact with daily, send someone a card letting them know they are thought of, hug your children more, buy yourself some flowers just because and more than anything, pray.
Yes, you heard me. Prayer is the most effective way to healing you as well as others. I don’t care what religion you are, that’s not of any importance to me, but it is to God. I know prayer works and I know He listens to everything I talk to Him about. I am not one of these persons who makes it some religious gesture by getting on my knees thinking I have to do it in any specified manor, I just sit outside or even walk around in the yard and talk to Him like He is right beside me. I have come to “know” Him intimately as if in some sort of relationship that is hard to define and I can honestly say I know when He thinks of me, when He misses hearing my voice, when He desires that I draw near to Him even in the wee hours of the morning just so I can be still and hear Him talk back with His still small voice. All of this is available to everyone, not just me or some famous religious guru. Test it out; take the time to talk to Him.
I don’t have all the answers to all of life’s ups and downs and twists and turns, but I do know of someone who does. I do know when I “feel” no physical or emotional love out of a relationship; I know His love for me. God has been the best thing for me during these times when no one has been around and that I can certainly depend on. All other things may come and go in my life or yours, but there has been no one person who will ever dare match up to how He has been filling all those places in my heart that where damaged and breaking all those old mindsets off my mind that have been holding me from moving forward with Him and on to a more satisfying life. Take the time today ask God to show you who you truly are to Him and I guarantee that He will.
