Finding Strength in the Storm......The Beginning

True Security...
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Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found.
~Anne Morrow Lindbergh~
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Don't fear change, when the thing to really fear is becoming stagnant, and not continuing to grow and develop into all that you can be. Every new experience, whether it be positive or negative, serves to develop deeper understanding, improve our abilities, and mature our character. Embrace the process, and allow it to bring out the best in you...for if instead, you shrink from it, you will only end up spending life in disappointment and unfulfillment.

Unspeakable speaks.......
Prior to being diagnosed with Cancer, I was stagnant. I had no idea where my life was headed, I had a plethora of dreams and visions, but would not stick with the process long enough to see it through. The one thing that I had a strong grasp on was my spirituality and my belief that God could and can do absolutely anything. I remember doing my devotion one day last year, when I had a divine appointment (a moment when the spirit of God makes my vision crystal clear), and God told me that my life was going to change drastically and to move forward because my heart was pure. I had no idea, that this is what He meant. I was waiting for my business to take off, my knight in shining armor to magically appear and whisk me away, my daughter to have a miraculous love for school, you know the fairytale. Well, clearly judging by the way things turned out, that was not what He meant. What He meant was that, " my life was going to change for the better, through trials, tribulations, sickness and disease, and adversity. It was not going to be easy, but it was going to be what I needed to move past where I was....stagnant." Why, you may ask...."because my heart is pure." God knew that if I was thrust into a situation where my back was against the wall and there was going to be constant uncontrollable change, that I would lean into it, believing in Him. There was never any doubt in my mind, that I was not going to be healed, it was only a matter of time. On "D-Day" (diagnosis day, as most cancer patients call it), I was in Newark, Delaware at Christiana Hospital, when I was met with 8 people that I did not know, ranging from Surgeons to Psychologists, spitting out medical terms that I had never heard before like invasive adenocarcinoma and lymphadenopathy. Alone in that room I was told that I had stage 3 breast cancer and that instead of me planning the next wedding or special event, I would be planning chemotherapy appointments. I had to make a decision at that point, on whether or not I was going to remain stagnant or embrace the process by which my life would be changed beyond recognition from where it once was. What you are reading now is a product of that decision. Your strength can be developed like never before in the midst of the hardest situations. It is the belief that you can win that spurs you into action to pursue the healing and deliverance that you need. Going forward, requires a steady devotion to the fulfillment of your life's purpose, and may require you to face the storm head on and it will be you that decides which way the tide will turn.......what will you do shrink back to mediocrity or rise up to your full potential?? Which ever you choose remember it marks the beginning.




Read this to give you perspective:
THEREFORE LET us go on and get past the elementary stage in the teachings and doctrine of Christ (the Messiah), advancing steadily toward the completeness and perfection that belong to spiritual maturity...For the soil which has drunk the rain that repeatedly falls upon it and produces vegetation useful to those for whose benefit it is cultivated, partakes of a blessing from God. But if [that same soil] persistently bears thorns and thistles, it is considered worthless and near to being cursed, whose end is to be burned. But we do [strongly and earnestly] desire for each of you to show the same diligence and sincerity [all the way through] in realizing and enjoying the full assurance and development of [your] hope until the end, In order that you may not grow disinterested and become [spiritual] sluggards, but imitators, behaving as do those who through faith by their leaning of the entire personality on God in Christ in absolute trust and confidence in His power, wisdom, and goodness) and by practice of patient endurance and waiting are [now] inheriting the promises
~Hebrews 6:1, 7,8,11,12 (Amp)~


The highlighted portions of this post come from a devotional that I receive daily, the author unknown but extremely profound. Enjoy!