Are You Truly Ready to Move Forward?

You’re human and you will get tired.

At times, peace will seem to fly away from you at the speed of light . . . and frustration about how long it’s taking for your change to come will seem to underscore your every thought.

So, go ahead . . . tell your God how tired you are.

Tell God all about the unfairness of the trial you’ve been walking through.

Tell God all about your frustration, and the accompanying vexation.

Tell your Creator how broken and twisted-up you feel.

Cry about it.

Pray about it.

And then expect to heal.

Don’t be offended when God’s healing flies right up into the face of your deepest anguish.

Love & Light,
Esther

Do you believe that there are High Places with your name on them?

How often have you been brought to the edge of an opportunity . . . only to back away when it was time to leap forward?

How many times have you swallowed your truth because you feared that the consequences of being that honest . . . that telling—about how you really felt or what you really wanted to do—would be less than bearable for someone, or for yourself?

How often have you accepted defeat, before you even entered the race, because you doubted your own ability to succeed and doubted God’s ability to be a sufficiently powerful partner? 

Have you ever found yourself living out what someone else thought your life should be about . . . and not what you suspected/knew it should be about?

Have you had a certain dream simmering on the back burner of your life for so long that all the flavor and passion seems to have simmered out of it?

Have you secretly forbidden yourself to dream new dreams?

When we don’t believe that we are entitled to a better life . . . we don’t believe High. When we don’t believe High for ourselves we wind up crafting all kinds of self-sabotaging behaviors that create barriers and, logically, keep us in Trouble.

My references to our having “High Places” comes from Habakkuk 3:19: “God will give us hinds’ feet and set us upon our High Places.” (The hind being a deer-like animal that can conquer even the most treacherous mountain terrain.) And there are two things to note here: The first is that God will give us hinds’ feet—meaning that this state of power and wisdom, grace and well-being, is a gift, not something earned. It has to come from God . . . through the spirit-woman inside us.

This state of spiritual empowerment is not something we can manufacture or create for ourselves, it is something we have to ask God for, and then expect to receive. 

The second thing we need to note: this scripture says that after God has given us (through the tests and trials of our life-experiences?) this bounding and rebounding power of a hind, we will be set upon our High Places. Therefore, it seems that it’s the use of our hinds’ feet that will transport us to this new land of mountain-top experiences.

From struggling through our days . . . to striding like Queens, blazing new pathways by faith and high-belief . . .

From Trouble . . . to High Places.

Perhaps, only a woman who has been excruciatingly low could ever yearn enough to reach that High.

Do you think God doesn’t know that?

Stop, Feel, Look & Listen

At some point in every day, we need to be aware and in the moment, spiritually, to see what kind of energy surrounds us, what kind of energy we’re feeding on, and what kind of energy we’re radiating, right at that moment.

So … take this as your cue to STOP!

Close your eyes for just a few seconds. Now, spend a few minutes deep breathing. Deeply inhale through your nose, letting air flow slowly into your abdomen, then into your mid-section… finally filling up your chest. Exhale slowly through your nose… first emptying your abdomen, then your mid-section, and finally pushing the last bit of air from your chest. Do this a few times.

Breathe and FEEL your gratitude… for your life… the people in your life… your coming blessings, and this present moment of your journey.

LOOK around you at the manifestation of this moment. What kind of physical space are you in? What kind of emotional space are you in? Spiritual space? Are you where you want to be or have you been dreaming about moving in some other direction? Remember that you are mainly SPIRIT! Look around you and KNOW that you are exactly where you are supposed to be right now… even if it’s a space that you’re not really feeling too positive about. Know that wherever you are right now and whatever you’re feeling is just a tiny part of a process that God is totally involved in, a tiny piece of your story… not your total journey.

Sit quietly and LISTEN for just a moment, to find out what you need to know. Discern the spirits of the people around you. Are they working and moving with you or against you?

PRAY, right now, about what is shown to you… about who or what comes to mind.

And KNOW THAT YOU ARE BLESSED!

Love & Light,
Esther

Affirmations for 2010

I listen to the guiding voice
of my intuitive spirit-woman.

I dwell at the Highest end of my Self.

I am leaving Trouble for my High Places.

I sit, walk, rise, fly from the center of my well-being.

I am a wealthy woman.

I open myself to Abundance and Abundance finds me.

I rise above it all.

My spirit reigns, my heart listens, and I do . . .

Peace radiates at my center.

I am a fabulous rendition of the Spirit of God.

I am Divine Creative Energy.

I am wonderfully made.

(From Trouble to High Places: Meditations For Women Who Are So Ready to Cross the Bridges That Lead to Joy!)

Do You Know Your Job?

God moves in our lives, always . . . in ways both big and small.
What we have to learn is that we should always be moving, too—always taking action in accordance with our prayers for the hopes and visions we have for our lives. Until we begin to move and act in ways that reflect our new high-beliefs, these new beliefs—and even our faith—won’t avail much.

Once you are truly believing higher for yourself, you will find yourself walking a different path than you have in the past.

When you are truly ready to leave your Trouble, you will find yourself standing—refusing to sit and rest—in your troubled state of being, any longer.

“Faith without works, is dead.” and “ . . . By works was faith made perfect.” (James 2:20,22), are two of the most profound statements in scripture because they address our natural human tendency to want to watch God do it all for us. While most of us have come to realize that every change we desire for our lives must be orchestrated by the hand of God, we also need to understand that unless we are moving our-selves into a position to be blessed—praying/moving/ listening and aligning ourselves with spirit, along with, and in anticipation of, God’s moving—nothing much will happen for us in this realm.