"Thoughts on Learning to Balance and Live. Life...Now"

    Once upon a time, in a deep, dark tunnel of life and overcome with despair, no hope, no options. I cried out, "Oh God !" and He answered my cry with a golden light, because no one else had heard it. That very night I accepted Him as my personal Savior and have served him for sixty-four years regardless of circumstances.  What a privilege it has been.
     Through those years, I learned many lessons but..... as I listened to dialogue in small group Bible Studies, heard a documentary on the brain/memory; and considered my own responses to my "now" dark tunnel of grief, illness, etc. ... I need to renew those lessons. So, I begin a new Journey in my journal.
     Bill stated that, "God needs affirmers." So I start with that and listed some on FB. An affirmation is a positive thought from the Word of God that we imagine as if it were true in the now. If I say it and feel it with conviction, it will become true. I found an affirmation can be written or stated positively. But if I write my affirmation and then read it aloud, I am using my eyes, my ears, and my body to affirm the new messages I am telling myself. They work now,  when I say with conviction , believing and receiving, stated as true (God's Word is truth.)  Sounds strange at first, but I found when I repeated it daily for 21 days,  it changed my being....because it change my negativity to faith in His promises. An example:
    "I deserve to let good things happen in my life today....because I am a child of God."
    "I am meeting people who are positive and supporting in my life...because they are part of the Family of God, the Church."
     As for me, this was a discipline that enabled me to draw me away from what I call my "stinkin' thinkin' ".    Well, if the Lord permits, I may share some things about that next post.

"When we discover the still quiet place that lies within each of  us, we can see it as a base to untangle ourselves from doubt indecision, ill-health, guilt and other forms of old programming that result in confused and defused actions." ~ Woman Spirit ~