Monday, March 30, 2015

WHERE TO GO FROM HERE?

WHERE TO GO FROM HERE?


I have been considering many things since I watched the movie, God's Not Dead, on Netflix this weekend.  I am watching it again now.

For some reason, in the end, when the challenge is made to text all of your friends on your contact list, I hesitated.  This shames me.  I sent one text and when I considered some of the friends on my list, their beliefs, their anger if I were to do so...well, the hesitation came and fell over me like a heavy brick of concrete which would hem me in and drown me in the place I would be driven to.

Today, I do not have the option to do such a task.  Not again until Wednesday and I wonder, who would have been affected by those words last night?  Who could/would have been saved had I have followed the direction I felt I was suppose to go in last evening but ran from instead.

I am new to God's family.  Rather, I should say that I have recently returned and I am struggling with where I belong.  I do not know, with certainty, what my purpose...my mission; my goal in life is.  I do know that God loves me and sent His son Jesus to be my savior.  I KNOW that I accept this salvation and that NO ONE can take it from me.  Yet, the guilt I feel for running last evening has me unsettled today.  I must pray for more courage.  I must pray for the faith to stand up for what I now believe in.  I must pray for others and for the wisdom to know when to speak God's message to them. 

Cosmic timing is everything.  I use to say that all the time.  Now, God's timing is everything and that is what I need to learn.  I want to learn to listen to that inner voice which will lead me home.

Where to go from here?  I still do not have the answers.  Yet, as I typed this out today, I was hearing the answer.  "To God's word."

Saturday, March 28, 2015

you within me: March 28, 2015 FREEDOM

you within me: March 28, 2015 FREEDOM: March 28, 2015 Saturday, 7:38 PM It seems I have reinstated my own being into the life of, at least, one of my children.  Having re...

March 28, 2015 FREEDOM

March 28, 2015

Saturday, 7:38 PM


It seems I have reinstated my own being into the life of, at least, one of my children.  Having recently relapsed (I now have three months, 15 days clean) I had removed me from my grandchildren and children.  Some of the removal has been necessary in order for me to learn to love me, to not be willing to do ANYTHING to allow me to be in their lives and to forgive myself for a past of hatred and self-loathing.  I HAD to KNOW WITHIN KNOWING that I am worth forgiving; I HAD to KNOW WITHIN KNOWING that I am lovable even without offering financial possessions; I HAD to KNOW WITHIN KNOWING that there is a future for me...clean...sober...full of love and happiness...NO MATTER WHO OR WHAT WAS/IS IN MY WORLD OF EXISTENCE.

Since Thursday, I have been babysitting for my middle son and his significant other.  Two days, I had my other grandson (age 4) here with us and all seemed perfect in the universe.  There are many blessings in these past few days.  Even today, upon finding out about a good friend's death, I was able to look into the eyes of my year old granddaughter and feel love, acceptance, TRUST.  No desire to use overwhelmed me nor does it now as I sit typing these words.

Some challenges arose during the day.  There are some challenges I can not, will not share publicly.  Yet, the challenges are real; they are painful; they could destroy a life IF I allow it to.  I will NOT be the person of yesteryear.  Flashing back to childhood is no longer a part of what I can allow.  Overwhelming, disabling anxiety is only given opportunity when I allow me to focus on all which once haunted me.  Should I wish to continue reliving the trauma(s) which haunted me from the age of 18 months to the year 2011, I could continue living in insanity.  I choose, today...this very moment...to look at each situation as it arises.  

There is a popular saying:

it is what it is

(I add)

it is what it is
but it isn't what it wasn't
and it wasn't what it is
and I thank God above

that

what it is 
isn't what it was
and what it was
isn't what it is

Today, I choose the life I choose.  Free of drugs and insanity, I CHOOSE TO LIVE FREE