Refreshing The Soul

When we've been wounded, our first inclination is to STOP THE PAIN!🛑 The issue we run into is when we resort to quick fixes to numb the pain, convincing ourselves that no pain = healed. But when life touches the place where you were once wounded, your response will indicate if you have been healed. God wants to heal you AND make you whole, but it requires TIME! In this episode, we discuss how time gives you the space to feel, properly heal, and gain God's wisdom on how to move forward!

In the words of the song, "Joy in the Morning," by Tauren Wells... "If it's not good, then He's not done No, He's not done with it yet There will be joy in the morning" Don't allow the rejection or the loss to be the end of your story. It's one chapter to the many that are yet to unfold in your life. Expect to see God's goodness! He is faithful and true to the pages of your story He wrote long ago about you. As long as He's the Author, you best believe it's going to be GOOD!

Some of us have been deeply rejected and wounded, to which our trust has been destroyed. We don't trust man with our heart, our vulnerability, or our truth. So we show up as our false selves, saying yes when we should say no. Smiling when we're hurting. Protective when we need community. Let's start with trusting God. He's going to lead you from there. Open your heart and give Him a try with the tenderness of your soul.

What would happen when we take off the lens of rejection that we see ourselves through and choose to put on the lens of how God sees us? I see you initiating where you would once ask for permission. I see you keeping your heart open where you would once close up. I see you enduring and trusting God where you would once give up and turn back to what's comfortable. Let's get the eyes of our soul checked and walk in the redemption and love of our wonderful God!💕

We can subconsciously take on the identity of how people and life have treated us. When we have been dismissed, betrayed, or felt something was stolen from us, we can believe that we are not good, not enough, or not loved. I want us to begin by untethering what happened to us from who we are! Some people didn't know how to love you properly because they weren't shown that. God's grace and love is SO much bigger and wider than the trauma you may have faced.

You've been doing the work. You've been addressing the places you used to fear in your soul. You've embraced the discomfort in order to grow. You're showing up to God and giving Him the first fruits of your heart. Yet you don't see the change. That ache in your soul is still there. Sister, be patient with your soul. You may not see it yet but you are transforming! You are doing your part...so be patient in letting God do His.❤️ He will complete the work He began in you. He won't let you stay there.

So often we are told to be kind, to love one another, to forgive or to give grace. But how often are we showing up for ourselves in the same manner?

In this episode I share an area in my soul that needs wholeness and how God revealed that this same place also needs kindness, patience, grace and love.🤍

We will forever be transforming into the image of Jesus Christ, so while we are growing let's also grow to love ourselves the way God does--with patience and kindness!🖤

Start the year with me and declare, "I will be kind to my soul!"🤎