Category: Spiritual Healing

How do we continue to do the good we would?  Sometimes life can drain every drop of flavor from my day, leaving me feeling uncared for and empty.  What is the secret to consistently being available to those in our sphere of influence?  There are question that we must each answer for ourselves.  Often the reason we do not discover our answers is because the question continue to go unasked.

What does it mean to give my personal power away?

This is done when you allow anything or anyone the personal power to mistreat you either emotionally or physically.  The key in the statement above is: “you allow”.  Obviously it is impossible to prevent unscrupulous people from doing bad.  What makes the difference is, did you make it possible for them to affect your life in a negative way.

Did you invest too much of yourself in someone who did not deserve your trust?  Finding out too late the privileged information they were holding has been used against you.

Going places or participating in activities that are not a blessing to yourself or others.  Were you careless in the way you handled a situation?

Allowing myself to remain in an uncomfortable situation or around crass people can quickly return me emotionally to the little girl I was who had no power to make the bad stop.  In my life I am empowered when I can exit an uncomfortable situation.  I am free to choose who I will be with and where I will spend my time.  If I allow someone access to my life who is hurtful or unkind then I have given my power away to that person.

Healing the Heart

Healing the emotional heart is as important as removing disease from the physical body.  Every day I am reminded of this fact as I share with our members.  Until the physically sick person will deal with the emotional fallout responsible for creating the diseased condition in their body there is little hope they can be well.

Dealing with ourselves is the hardest work we will ever do.  Getting to know yourself, accepting your failings as well as  the achievements is to find a balance which leads to an inner peace only the Lord can give.

It is Sunday evening and I’m sitting here listening to the sounds of my husband working on our new offices.   He has completely amazed me.  Last year when he started this project I never doubted he could do the work.  I have watched the space go up one board at a time.  The frame & roof, then the electrical & plumbing and central air ducts, followed by the hanging of drywall and endless days of sanding.  A lesser man would have left the drywall work to someone else.  He then installed the ceiling fans and lighting fixtures, primed and painted the walls and laid the carpet.    Today he has been working on the molding around all the doors and windows.

Yes, I’m bragging a bit, but it is much more.  This project has developed a side of my husband I have not had the opportunity to know before.  His ability to see a project of this size through from beginning to end has greatly impressed me.    He has always had a love for puzzles, I think in many ways this was a huge puzzle he got to work on.  Our local home depot was the puzzle box where he selected all his pieces.

He has always been a man of few words.  His quiet patience when the project did not come together as he expected.  I hardly knew there was a problem.  He would be on line reading up on this or that subject until he found his answer and then proceeded to implement what he had learned.  We all take on projects from time to time that could potentially have a huge impact on our lives.  What is my point, I guess it would be realizing I’ve been privileged to watch the unfolding of another person.  We all have such potential inside us.  Watching him has inspired me.

The decision has been made, you want to make a difference in the world.   Choosing to expand yourself beyond the small circle of family and friends who make up your community.  How does it feel?  What does it mean to stand up?  It means to recognize and answer the call when it comes.  Often the appeal is first heard as a quiet thought or conviction of heart.  These are easily ignored or blown off as a passing whim for many, but to those who have chosen over and again to “Rise & Shine” when called, the passing whisper of thought is enough.  They take hold of the good to be done charting the road for others to follow in their wake.

Regardless how few or how many talents we possess, we each have the ability to largely impact the world  for good or evil.  A lowly birth or limited means in this life in no wise limit the ability of an individual to leave a deep, lasting mark in the world.

The amount of good flowing from a single life when surrendered to the Father’s use is truly astounding.  Humble means, simple beginnings have been the spring board for many of the greatest men who have walked through history.  Men and women whose influence is still felt long years after their minds and voices have ceased to bless this world.

Choosing from their earliest years to bless others they possessed an innate willingness to stand and make a difference.  Accepting their lot in life with an open heart and willing hands to do good whenever possible seems to be the common denominator among the men and women who have blessed the world with their lives.  Only in eternity will we understand how the choices we made effected for good or for evil those around us, leaving our mark in the world to impact future generations until the close of time.

True greatness does not wait for an opening opportunity or ask for directions. Repeated experience has shown over and again the way to begin is just to begin.  The Father will open the way when that first step is taken out into the great unknown.  Greatness finds the way has been marked out one step at a time.  He finds he is walking in the footsteps of a King.

The Father has promised to restore any life that is surrendered to Him.  He understands the emotional twisting that abuse of any kind can do to a child.  He also knows exactly what experiences will be needed to heal the personality and restore balance to the life. The Father stood with me through my early years, providing his teachers and experiences at just the right time, which enabled me to grow beyond the early traumas.   As an adult looking back, I can see His providence surrounding my life, filling me with as much love and light as I could hold.  The wisdom to rise above is the wisdom to understand.  The Still Small Voice I heard as a child I now know as the voice of Wisdom from above.  Throughout the years of pain and confusion, He comforted me, whispering hope and love in my ear.  Today I know Him as my friend and Savior, the one who has been beside me every step of my journey.

A good portion of my life has been spent in victim mode, accepting responsibility for the wrong choices of others, reacting instead of living.  Personal freedom has come as I have developed boundaries. I now understand where my responsibility ends.  I no longer allow the bad choices others make to oppress my life.  Taking on the emotional baggage someone else is choosing to carry is not an act of kindness for either of us.  I have learned to listen, offer my best advice, and then leave the emotional baggage behind. Personal freedom allows me to say, “This is not my problem.  I care about you, but I am not your personal dumping ground.” It is impossible to share our gifts with the world if we allow those we meet to dump their emotional junk all over us.

What do people need to know today.  What hurts the heart today.  The world is falling apart.  Babies are shot while they sit in their classroom.  A Crazy, mean, hateful, person picked up a gun and shot us through the heart.  This shooting was not an act against society, it was an act of pure hate.  When aiming to get even with society adults are the target.  To walk into a classroom with the intent to destroy the unlived lives of our babies, this is an act of pure hate.  This man was not shooting at society, his act of murdering what we hold dearest to our hearts, our children, was an act of pure hate intended to elicit the most pain possible.  There is no torture more painful to a community than the mistreatment or murder of our children.

The cruel hate filled heart that could inflict so much pain out into the world would not be affected by our tears or pleads.  The selfish choices made over and again paved the road he traveled bringing him to the day he would be able look into the innocent faces while sending life ending lead into their little bodies.

A wise man once said evil is the absents of good.  We have removed God from our schools so why should we be shocked when all that is good is found missing from the soul of our young adults.  God is good, He is love, to know him is to know true love.  Without God the opposite can only be true.