Have You Built Yourself a Cozy Little Nest in Trouble?

Think about this:  Whatever space you find yourself in that feels like Trouble to you—whether it’s a draining relationship, a state of lack, a struggle with depression, or a battle with ailing health—you are more familiar with your Trouble scenarios than you are with your High Places possibilities. In other words, your Trouble has become something of a comfort zone/home for you.

. . . Step . . .

Just for a moment or two, stop thinking about your Trouble and begin to think about your High Places. Your High Places.

Who are you on your High Places?

What do you do there?

What do you think about?

Who are you as your Highest Self?

What is your purpose, and what is your passion?

Do you have courage? Are you a bold woman, saying what you truly think and owning your true feelings?

Do you have convictions? (What are you certain of?)

And do you have integrity?

Do you walk in the grace of God . . . living your days by faith . . . and your nights?

Are you focused and clear and passionate about living your life?

Have you been stirred to a gentle excitement about what it really means to be alive?

Can you see yourself on your High Places?

Now, here’s the real question:

Are you, yet, ready to leave your Trouble for your High Places?

Excerpt from From Trouble to High Places: Meditations for Women Who Are So Ready to Cross the Bridges that lead to Joy! Copyright 2009 Esther Davis-Thompson

Can You See Yourself on Your High Places?

There are several things that can keep us in a larva state of never becoming who we are really capable of being. Major on that list are the relationships that tie us to our old ways of being.

By far, the most life-altering relationship we’ll ever have is the relationship we have with Self. Yet, in Trouble we tend to stop loving and accepting ourselves for who we really are. We stop supporting our real emotions and our real truths, and we put all our energy into crafting constantly evolving tactics to enable ourselves to survive our stay in Trouble.

Trouble is an ugly mirror that rarely offers us a glimpse of our true-Self. Every self-image we form in Trouble is reflected back to us distorted. Our Trouble self-images can make us look so bad to ourselves that, if we aren’t careful, we can venture into a realm of self-loathing.

Now, know this: Who you were in Trouble is not who you really are. Whereas in Trouble you were, mainly, a reactive being, you are different as your pro-active, High-Places Self.

Today, begin to build a new relationship with your Self. Imagine yourself on your High Places—separated and far away from the elements of your Trouble. On your High Places you are truly yourself. With your mind made up and your confidence in place . . . with your beliefs set high and your spirit leading the way . . . with your mind focused and your passion following your wonder . . . you are indeed quite different, I assure you!