I wrote this passage last week and thought it was important to pass on. How you think about yourself can and will be used against you. You must always remember that God thinks your beautiful, your wonderful and your His. As you read what I wrote, I hope you find one word that you can put into place that is positive and represents how Jesus sees you. At the end of this journey it doesn't matter what people believed about you, it matters what trials you learned from, what faith you gained in the midst of negativity and in Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior. I hope you find something in today to be blessed by and find your first word, here's mine.
From last Friday to my trainer:
Words are what knit this world together. They can be positive or negative with no grey
area. They can inspire or tear
down. They are the center of how people
feel. Whether you are logical or
artistic, words paint a picture of the soul.
They define people into categories that often, they cannot break. Words should be used to build tapestry but
instead they are often used to bring about war.
As a little girl, I learned what it meant to be a “bastard,
abandoned and unwanted.” I learned what
an ugly duckling was and how librarian, which should have meant something
positive, became an absolute negative in my life. And I learned what fat meant and how fat
people were treated and how they thought of themselves. These were the words that molded a young girl. And although none of these words are
positive, they were all used to make a warrior.
Struggling with body issues, insecurities and not fitting in
is where my journey begins. Where I am
today truly started so many years ago.
Women, in general, struggle with many of the same issues I face. Girls look at movie stars, models and
beautifully thin women as their sole role model. We get desensitized to what we were truly
made for and that beauty is only skin deep.
Words somehow penetrated the minds and souls of the innocent to be
distorted, ravaged and twisted. What was
started as a solid oak tree ends in sawdust.
But like every strong tree, rooted to the ground, with sunlight and
water that tree grows again. It becomes new and learns to weather the toughest
storms and in time, becomes stronger and more radiant. Body transformation
isn’t just the time you spend in the gym or in your home, it’s the time you
take to re-program words that have infiltrated your mind and soul. Like a great painting the color needs to be
layered, swished and infused, with light and dark, to weave a picture of true
mastery.
Beginning the journey is the toughest part. How do I know? Because I have taken on the challenge at an
age when a woman has a hard time losing weight, getting healthy and seeing
herself from the inside, out. As you
age, your body begins to show all its wear.
What you have eaten, how much stress you have, what you believe and how
you have treated the vessel you were given becomes apparent in blood tests and
in how you feel. You have a choice, just
like I do. You can choose to live in
words or you can act and change your course.
You are made for this journey, you just didn’t know it until you got
here and either did I.
So today we start with the re-programming of a mind that has
been filled with the greatest lies.
These words have penetrated you to your core and part of getting healthy
is taking each word, finding different ones and begin living in those
words. The past doesn’t have to define
you. You have a choice to fill your mind
with beautiful colors. It just takes one
word to begin to see the truth.
The word that changed my life happened last year, I chose,
“Warrior.” If an oak tree is 100 years
young, isn’t it a warrior? Now, you need to find one word that describes this
journey for you and put it into your mind, on your phone, as your saver screen,
wherever because it’s about to become part of your journey to healing your mind
and body. As you picture the word, you
will begin to push yourself to be the “word” that best describes you today. We will add on to those words as time goes by
but it really starts with the first.
I want to leave behind that I fought the good fight and I persevered, just like Paul. Find a Scripture that resonates with you today and find one word that describes your journey with Jesus.
1 Peter 5: 10 NIV
And the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory in Christ, after you have suffered for a little while, will himself restore you and make you strong, firm and steadfast. To him be the power for ever and ever. AMEN