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Meetings Follow-Up

22 Monday Feb 2016

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12 Steps, action, Celebrate Recovery, Christian, Christian living, clouds, encouragement, flowers, forgiveness, healing, hope, hurt, Lent, light, recovery, support

This week has started well, especially as I mentioned the importance of meetings in my last post. I made it to church yesterday morning and my support group this evening. As I’ve ventured out from my dip in isolation, I’ve found several supportive peers and friends eager to see me and encourage me. Tonight especially, I was repeatedly reminded that I need not travel this healing road alone and that sharing my struggle (as well as my victory) frees me and opens the lane for others coming down the same road; the content of the lesson on principle 8 associated with the twelfth step in the 12 Steps, which focuses on sharing God’s word and work by example, and a personalized word of encouragement from a woman who shares a similar experience as me have made me realize a truth that’s been on my heart: I need to continue forgiving and sharing my hurts, habits and hang-ups. I NEED to take this action.

Fortunately this action can make use of my spiritual gifts of writing, encouragement and teaching…and that’s just from sharing it via writing. Here’s to sharing my recovery journey, me seeing my healing and others seeing God’s light shining in and through it.

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Holiday Sunset

03 Wednesday Dec 2014

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city, clouds, Country Club Plaza, holiday, holiday lights, holidays, Kansas City, lights, Photo, photography, sky, sun, sunset

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Faithful Promise

29 Monday Sep 2014

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Christian, Christianity, clouds, deliverance, dreamer, dreams, faith, God, hope, life, limits, poem, poetry, promise, promises, silver lining, sky, truth

I am a cloud

Floating in the sky

Infinity every direction beyond

Except for the ground below

 

I pray to land

Upright on my feet

The Son still shining through

A way, truth and life in me

 

Even when dark blankets

Light still surrounds

A silver lining so bright

A seal of prosperous rain

 

This life knows no limits

When love abounds like endless sky

Ever shifting beauty

For a cloud by day and by night

Gray Skies Proclaim Deliverance

10 Sunday Aug 2014

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answered prayer, bible, change, Christian, Christian living, clouds, darkness, deliverance, glory, God, hope, Jesus, light, open door, opportunity, prayer, progress, Psalms, sky, stress, transition, work

My morning commutes to work give me time to admire the beauty of the sunrise God paints every morning as He reminds me He has gifted me with another day. Especially this week, I have witnessed the sky’s proclamation of God’s glory. This week maintains such a mix of gray clouds and light reflective of confusion and spiritual warfare in life. My week and weekend has included aspects of both, making the morning skies even more reflective of God’s ever-presence. The gray masses of positive stress adapting to my new job, spiritual warfare experienced by myself and co-workers as we band together to spread the Gospel, and confusion about pursuing new writing goals hover over my head much like the morning’s clouds. Yet light always bursts forth. As Psalm 19:1-2 sings,

The heavens declare the glory of God;

The skies proclaim the work of his hands.

Day after day they pour forth speech;

Night after night they display knowledge.

This emphasizes my personal connection to God’s glory, reflection on it, and my writing aspirations.

This week we have some weather reprieve from some rainfall; this provides more change in the sky as the clouds develop and move. My week has had its share of stress as well, notably from emotional buildup and schedule adjustments. A few times, I have gotten in my car and shared with God that He knew how I felt and painted the sky for me, maybe further pushing me to write about it later. I always note the light coming through the center of a dark cloud or a bright silver lining around a raincloud and am thankful that God is light and that darkness will never overcome that light. Even when the gray clouds merge into one, God will make sense of it all. My biggest example of this comes from the end of the week where the sky was simply gray when I left for work. Just a ways down the road, I noticed the blue above me. I could let go of my confusion because God has already answered my prayers.

At work and in my personal life, God clearly has answered several of my prayers that have been weighing on my heart lately. It seems like as soon as I was more open to letting Him use me and me placing my brokenness and desires in His hands, the more He enlightened me and the more He opened doors for me. These revelations most notably came through encouraging interactions with friends and co-workers.

To give an idea of my heart lately, I have been contemplating several writing projects, healing from heartbreak, settling into my new job, and joyously adapting to my regular working hours routine. Again, this all creates positive stress, but it involves a lot of transition at one time. God has spoken to me through His portraits in the sky (an artistic fitting way for a reflective writer like me) and the conversations I have. A friend of mine has casually told me that I should write the novel I’ve had growing in my mind, just the little push of courage I need to get past my first line I’ve had for a while; my boss has found ways to utilize my writing and editing skills and noted me for a volunteer position with our organization that would get me the media exposure and experience I need; I have been reminded of the continual purpose of certain relationships with people; a couple people I recently met have reached out to me in what might be an answer to my prayer for a mentors relationship. God has reminded me that my heart for Him and how I share His love is a testament to Him and can touch other people; I have even met another person at my work who is helping me find outlets to publish my work. Doors are opening, and God is showing His glory.

What stands out to me most throughout all this is how much God honors our efforts to be open to His plan. One of my co-workers pointed out that we should all know good things are ahead when because some of us were going through some spiritual warfare. She is so spot-on. Just look at how God has delivered me again this week and shown me opportunities to glorify Him. As I open myself to Him and His plan for me, He honors my efforts to share His love, especially as I do that through the support of His body and the power of prayer. Now I pray that God will continue to give me courage and strength to pursue the use of my gifts and that they ultimately point to Him. I lift up the end of Psalm 19, verse 14:

May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart

Be pleasing in your sight,

O LORD, my Rock and my Redeemer.

to remind us that God holds us firmly and delivers us that we may serve Him. May the skies and the efforts of our gifts proclaim His glory forever.

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Weekend 411

11 Friday Apr 2014

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Sky Haiku

02 Wednesday Apr 2014

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clouds, gray, light, poem, poetry, shades of gray, sky, uncertainty

Clouds loom overhead
Shades of gray prove uncertain
Yet light shines through it

Opportunity Rises Again

26 Sunday Jan 2014

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clouds, goals, lunar year, moon, new year, opportunity, Photo, photography, progress, sky, sun, sunrise

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We have started a new year. The next lunar year is about to begin. Once again, a chance for a fresh start appears.
The sun rises every day. It’s up to us to get up with it and seize the time we’ve been given. Opportunities for progress occur constantly. Let’s make the most of the time we’ve been given!
What are your goals for this week? For this year?

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Silver Lining

21 Saturday Dec 2013

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brother, clouds, family, Photo, photography, scenery, sky, sun, sunset

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Halfway There, Living On A Prayer

15 Sunday Dec 2013

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clouds, moon, nature, Photo, photography, sky, trees

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Up At Dawn

25 Monday Nov 2013

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beauty, beginnings, change, clouds, hope, life, nature, Photo, photography, sky, sun, sunrise

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A new era starts soon. I’m thankful for hope and fulfillment of faithful promises. I’m pretty blessed and look forward to a new day, surrounded by love.

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