How to Live YOUR Design: Embrace the GIFT of Pain!
How do I know what my unique design actually is???? In a nutshell, you’ll discover what your design actually is by KNOWING what it is NOT. Pay close attention to any emotional, physical, mental, spiritual and/or sexual PAIN you experience throughout your lifetime. For those of you who are proud of yourselves for having the ability to “tolerate” tons of pain, that may be a sign that you’ve become numb to pain. Numbness to pain is a great protector! For a time. Healing happens – fully Living YOUR unique, God-given Design happens – as we embrace the GIFT of pain. That gift will motivate us to extricate ourselves from anything that attempts to keep us from facing the reality that we truly are our Master’s unique MASTERPIECES!
Also check this out: Let Star, Crescent & Circle give you an idea of what it’s like to live within an environment wherein you can freely Living YOUR Design: A video I created for my grandson a few years back: https://youtu.be/zGd0fCYJlYk
What’s your experience with being in an environment wherein you are encouraged to freely Live YOUR Design – mentally, physically, spiritually & emotionally?
Don’t let your heart be troubled
“Don’t let your hearts be troubled; TRUST me.” Jesus said that to his disciples way back in the day. The Spirit of Truth – the Counselor – whom God sent to us after Jesus died reminds us of those same words today.
The cry of the heart of God is, “TRUST me.”
We have REAL problems that make our hearts troubled. We get scared. Anxious. Depressed. “Is there light at the end of this tunnel of darkness?” we often ask ourselves when hard stuff happens.
“Trust God????”
On this podcast, I share my own struggle with trusting God when hard stuff happens.
Coping with the Holidays – Part 2: Take the Rush out of the Holidays by Taking Charge of the Rush!
Buying into the seduction of the “Holiday Rush” produces an identity crisis. Check out my podcast to find out how that can happen. Learn how the concept of “Success is PLAYING the Game” may help you to take charge of the rush. You may notice that what I share may not apply to the holidays but to another area of your life. (Check the YouTube video I created to view the images I chose to match this podcast: https://youtu.be/klKar-A-g9E) ) My encouragement to you is to Live YOUR Design fully for the rest of this holiday season and into the New Year!
Coping with the Holidays – Part 1: Honor the Broken-Hearted – The GIFT of Emotional Pain
I had written this article in 2007. In today’s podcast, I used it as a springboard to share insights I’ve gained since then.
The GIFT of Emotional Pain: Honor the broken-hearted this holiday season!
We cannot “just get over it”.
We need our pain.
Our pain leads us.
We must not reject our pain.
We need to embrace our pain.
Pain has much to tell us.
Pain leads us to hope again.
It cries out to be heard.
Our pain cries out to be experienced;
It cries out to be felt.
AND, we’d rather run from our pain. BUT, please consider the following:
“In a sense, our darker moments and most upsetting feelings are an opportunity for spiritual growth and for uncovering our wisdom; for waking up. Our deepest insights can emerge from working directly – with awareness – with our own difficulties. (Emotional Alchemy by Tara Bennett Coleman)”
Let’s honor the brokenhearted by not expecting them and/or ourselves to be “up” just because it’s “that time of the year”.
Let’s not run from our own emotional pain or from the pain of others.
Let’s allow pain to speak to us through the process of grief.
Let’s give the gift of freedom to feel and to express emotional pain – to ourselves and others this holiday season.
Let’s begin to realize that in doing so we will give our pain an opportunity to gift us in return.
Let’s become close to the brokenhearted this holiday season!
“The LORD is close to the brokenhearted and rescues those who are crushed in spirit. (Psalm 34:18”)