Where are you at the beginning of this new year?
Every day, I try to locate where I am emotionally before I dig in to tackle what is next.
Once I locate myself emotionally, I can then work through potential disturbances or any sensations of excitement or any subconscious blips that may prevent or distract from clear sailing forward. I can then harness the energy from those emotions to move forward powerfully. So what about you?
Where are you?
Excited to jump in?
Hopeful?
Ready?
Questioning?
Fearful?
Regretful?
Exhausted?
Relieved 2022 is over?
Overdone?
Post-holiday blues or letdown?
I wish it were the case, but we do not all wake up magically on New Year’s Day with a bright new view awaiting us and all the vim and vigor to go with it.
I wish the calendar change meant that it did, but it does not.
This series (yes, a series) is for those that do NOT have everything figured out about 2023.
My hope is to shed some light spiritually, mentally, and emotionally that may help you know what to do next physically.
So stay with me as I walk you through what could possibly elicit some internal discomfort a.k.a. stirrings.
Just know that is my intention to throw in a disruption or two to jar you from your current way of thinking and open up something new…to potentially create a clearing for you.
Part 1:
At the beginning of this journey, prompted by a series of significant personal life changes, I felt at a loss for hope for my own future and direction personally. I knew there must be more. But I just could not seem to find it in all my usual go-to’s.
I refused to believe God was done with me.
However, the idea of starting again to look at what is wrong with me in grief counseling or therapy was not something I looked forward to but a strategy I’d often employed in the past. This time, it did not seem suitable as a way forward. And just sitting in church as a spectator of life and the Lord, was to me a sentence of further isolation, frustration, and exasperation.
What I was doing was not working for me.
But to go back to living the way I had found meaning in the past by busying myself with a full schedule of work, family or even spiritual activities also felt not quite right for me where I was in life.
Now here’s where things got dicey. Internal change was needed and I know I am not the only one that gets here. YOU too may be ready to confront YOUR own ‘stuckness’. For me, however, an additional spot of inertia came when I evaluated my options.
To not go along with the status quo of many in my circle whom I respected and loved meant that I potentially would face feared judgment that might come my way as a result of trying to find my own way with the spirit.
Now anyone that knows me knows I HATE conflict. But to resist and be in conflict with what I felt God’s spirit was calling me to seemed worse.
So I decided to follow what God seemed to be drawing me toward – come what may.
I did not know what that was exactly and could only follow one step at a time. That’s all that was clear at the time. THAT was my beginning.
What do you sense God drawing you toward?
THAT is your beginning. You don’t need to see the entire 2023 just yet. God’s got that.
But what if what you have been doing no longer works for where you are at?
Join us Jan. 16th – 20th for our 5 days of exploring what it takes to ReInvent Your Life. I will be going LIVE each day in our FB Group.
Mark your calendars and stay tuned for part 2 of “Where are you?”.
Much love and clarity for you is my prayer.
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