With Whom Are You Walking?

Today, think about the people around you. Do they stir a high energy within you, or do they make you sink down into the lowest places of yourself?

Is there someone who seems to help you to step up higher into yourself every time you talk to them? Is there someone who intimidates you? Is there someone who frequently belittles you? Is there someone who seems to understand you without your having to go through undue explanations about things? Is there someone who makes your mind and spirit feel good?

As you become more and more aware of the nullifying effect that some people have on your ability to move forward, you will come to understand the importance of associating with people who are a positive force in your life. You will free yourself to be able to offer some Love to everyone you come into contact with . . . yet you’ll also know when to stop short of throwing your beating heart to hungry lion-folks.

You’ll be free to give of yourself to anyone who has a true need, but you’ll also know to think twice before offering your last bit of water to those who have a habit of, somehow, cracking every glass they own.

You’ll be free to love others strong, yet, you’ll know to be wary of those who keep refusing to heal . . . and seem to ex-pect you to stay in their unhealed zone with them.

In all of your relationships, listen carefully for the intuitive voice of your spirit-woman. Pay attention, and she will tell you everything you need to know.

Staying in relationships that we know aren’t good for us makes it harder for us to move forward out of our Trouble.

Trying to walk, for too long, with people who aren’t going in the same direction we are, just drives us deeper into Trouble.

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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

Are You Listening to Your Spirit-Woman?

If you neglect to listen to your spirit-woman as she tries to offer you guidance about walking out your day-to-day life, you may find yourself wandering into the burn-out zone.

Keeping up with the schedules of things that you have to do for yourself and others . . . chasing goals that may have nothing to do with what your spirit says you should be doing . . . you wake up one day feeling drained, overwhelmed, confused, mis-understood, tired and irritable.

You will begin to wonder if you will ever get it right.

Whatever it is.

You will begin to feel tired of trying to do it all.

Whatever it is.

And, you’ll probably start feeling that the people closest to you are definitely out to get you.

You will not want to talk to anyone.

You will just want to fade into non-being, for a while, and listen to the conversations that are going on inside you.

And you will, eventually, be led to ask your spirit-woman what to do . . . how to proceed . . . how to feel better?

And she will probably ask you if you’re ready to listen to her, yet?

Whom Have You Chosen to Be?

I have re-invented myself so many times. It was hard work sometimes—and other times, not so hard—yet always, my re-inventions were the cadres that swept my life from one side of my Red Sea experiences to the other.

Always it was spirit-effort, swirled with my conscious-agreement to believe a high-thought, a daring idea, or a God-breath, that led to my becoming a new growth in the garden of myself. Likewise, daily, re-inventing my womanspace—daily, truly seeking my better way—was/is always about purposefully examining the ocean of psycho/ emotional/spiritual impulses inside of me, and seeking Spirit’s way to look at whatever I’m going through. Striving to think better thoughts about myself and my purpose in this world and learning to value my moments, hours, and days as gifts to be used purposefully—these are my personal principles of re-invention.

Most importantly, I have learned that re-invention involves only oneself and God. As we begin choosing our spirit-woman’s wisdom over our own reasoning and logic, Self aligns with Spirit in a way that results in our becoming wildly real and profoundly aware of the indisputable importance of our lives in the panoramic schema of things.

We are like marvelous gardens, you and I. We can bear fantastic fruit of many kinds. I have decided that I want to experience every possible color in the garden of me . . . and so I am willing to work for it. I want to be shade and I want to be edible. I want to be beautiful and mysterious and passionate. I want to defy all reason . . . and I will . . . because God has given that much power to me.

And the more I am aware of the spiritual significance of where I have been, what I’ve been through, and what I’ve already overcome, the more I am aware of my spirit-woman whispering the confirmation: “Yes, Baby Girl, you are fearfully and wonderfully made.” . . . convincing me that I am on piercing purpose and of fabulous reason.

So, what grows in the garden of you? Have you examined your womanspace lately?

Are you becoming aware of some of the notions that are reigning at the center of your consciousness and determining how you approach your life?

What do you believe about your Self and your life?

Have you chosen to be? And what will you choose to be? Dormant or free?

Good questions, huh?

Believing High

There are reasons why we are as we are, and there are reasons why we act as we do—our beliefs and our personal perceptions of our experiences have molded and shaped us into who we are today.

The way that our inner light shines—or doesn’t shine—inside the womanspace, determines whether we come to expect sunshine or darkness, or perhaps just shadows, in our lives. And, it is what we have come to believe—what we have come to expect to be true—that determines how we live our lives.

Inside each of us there is an ever-changing, emotionally-charged, vibrant kaleidoscope of energy—our womanspace—that determines how we think and feel and act. The spaces of belief in this womanspace are innumerable. Twinkling like so many stars, glistening brightly and alive, each belief we have holds the power to light our lives in its own way and after its own fashion. Some spaces of belief are bright and lovingly charged, and some are ugly. Changing changing . . . all the time, some spaces of belief are multiplying, some are self-deleting, some are acting up and getting inflamed and demanding attention. Some spaces of belief are working miracles inside of us—some are hindering them. Some of our inner belief-spaces are easily corralled into categories like fear, faith, anger, pain, accomplishment, satisfaction, indifference, envy, joy, strength, passion, and some spaces are, yet, undefined—affecting us still.

Each belief we have holds an incredible amount of power to, at any given time, determine our steps, order our days, and to
create our thoughts, our reasons, and our actions. We are indeed fearfully and wonderfully made! (Psalms 139:14) And our thoughts—particularly our thoughts about Self—are extremely powerful shapers of our reality.

Imagine this kaleidoscope-like womanspace inside you. Imagine the gliding of one colored emotion—fear, hope, hopelessness, faith, passion—into another. And imagine further, the churning that can take place within the whole of it, when even one tiny aspect of what you believe changes.

Yet, if you could look inside yourself, you would see one small, simple, solitary space that is unaffected by all the others. It is a lovely, calm and peaceful space, like a placid lake. It is an invariable, yet it moves from side to side and from inner-place to inner-place. And yes, it changes shape —sometimes seeming larger . . . and sometimes smaller. But the substance of this space is never affected by the surrounding spaces, although the surrounding spaces always seem to be transformed by it.

And you begin to realize that this stable space is actually the nucleus of your womanspace. And the more you look inside yourself, the more you are fascinated by, and habitually begin to search for, this nucleus-space. You begin to anchor your searches and muses about your womanspace on the search and holding of this special space. This strongest and most stable of all the spaces. And you begin to notice that the more you go back to look for this nucleus-space, the easier it is to find. And this space just seems to glisten and twinkle in response to your coming to visit again. And, if you were to think about it long enough, you would come to realize that your concentration on this nucleus-space always results in a transformative temperance of all the other spaces around it.

Your awareness of the workings of your womanspace will lead you directly to an awareness about the greatest source of power in a woman’s (or any human being’s) life: your spirit—the only part of you that lives truly unaffected by your experiences.

And, since you are a woman, this inner spirit is your spirit-woman. 

And since she is directly connected to, and receives her strength, her resilience, her wisdom and her essence of being from God . . . she is empowered (Ephesians 3:16). 

That is why she does not turn gray when clouds engulf your womanspace.

And that is why the emotional churnings and gurglings of your womanspace have no effect on her at all.
Her wisdom is not subjective—because it’s straight from God!

And that is why you can be healed . . . truly healed . . . from all the rough experiences you’ve been through—because deep on the inside of you, in that space where your spirit-woman resides, you are healed and whole already.