No weapon formed against me shall prosper…but what happens if those weapons that form are from within. Those invisible instruments that can grow to reveal an arsenal of hidden and unresolved issues. Self-destruction on a spiritual yet microscopic level.  Understand this, some of the smallest insignificant sorrows can fester and grow. Coming out at the most untimely occasion or hitching a ride onto another life event that can create an explosive response. We tend to ignore those small things that hurt us and blow it off as unimportant. Only to have it come up later as a greater force.

Many of us go through life not fully addressing or maybe understanding, THAT thing which has hurts us. We minimize it, push it down deep into an out of sight out of mind place, yet unresolved and eventually becoming infectious. Leaving it to infect and grow from within. As a woman, society has labeled us as being emotional, irrational, caught up in our feelings if and when our emotions emerge in a physical more visible form. Yet the designer, our creator designed us to be the carrier of E-motions. The design was created to express. There are impressive outcomes that occur with the expression of positive emotions. Emotions are an outward expression of a psychological development to a stimulus. It is the act of a feeling or feelings coming to the surface.  The act of feeling is not a problem. Even to express one’s feelings is still not at all a problem. The problem is to hoard them and not address them. The problem is unleashing them haphazardly. The problem is when they (emotions) became a weapon (an instrument or device used to attack or as a defensive mechanism). The moment when there is a loss of control. The weapon has been formed and ready to be unleashed.

We have been conditioned to believe that by minimizing the presence of our emotions we take power from them existing, however, in reality, we add more fuel to power them up. They become negative spirits that creep into your peace of mind. We should learn to understand them, for if not, they will only become bigger over time. A few of these small unresolved issues have attached themselves to you from your childhood and are now rising and roaring up in your adult life. Never thought that They, are unresolved and cause havoc on your present-day reality.

YOU will not get the best out of your life until you first recognize them and confront them. WHAT is them, those buried muted reactions turned into ticking time bombs. How do you recognize unresolved issues you ask? First don’t allow them to become unrecognizable by ignoring them, muting them. Guard the sanctity of your atmosphere, your mind, and your heart. Do not allow that which hurts you to also infect you. Understand your worth and well-being go hand in hand. Understand that your outward expression of your emotions is natural and instinctive deriving from a trigger that sets your feelings in MOTION. However, do not allow those emotions to assemble against you creating you to fall or fail. Have a hold on your feelings so it will not be the instrument that defeats you. So it will not be the reasoned judgment rises against you. Now that we have the keys to recognize those potential weapons now let us confront them.

Yes, confront them, those bundles of emotional tinder from the past that will spark a flare up without advance notice in our present. Anger, bitterness, grief, shame, guilt, sadness, discomfort etc, this list can go on and on.  Understand your emotions are valid and they are yours. You own how your feel so understand you are also responsible how you react. Don’t hoard or harbor them, but address them. If you are sad know why, if you are treated unfairly don’t allow it to continue, if you are angry to find a positive outlet, but by all means acknowledge and respond accordingly.

More to come…

Next Blog Listen to Your EMOTIONS

Life Made Easy

Is there such a concept? Do we complicate life by our expectations? Or is life just complicated. If you measure your expectations with what other wants out of you…then yes it is complicated. If you measure your life with what you don’t have compared to what others have…then yes it’s complicated.  There is one thing you must know about me I make the best out of some of the most difficult situations. I make the best out of what I have.  It takes the power out of defeat, failure, and disappointment when you bring forward the GOOD you find your worth. Is that easier said than done? No…you have to train your mind to think this way.

As a single mom, money was tight at times. I remember one day, in particular,  it was a day before I got paid. I did not have the money to pay the light bill and it was disconnected when I got home from. My son was about 2 or 3 at the time. I didn’t panic. I put my mind in the right place and began making…the worst of the best experience.  It was warm outside thank God and I had a closed in porch with a BBQ grill. I made pallets on the porch and lit the grill and we made dinner on the grill. Now to my son it was camping to me it was survival, yet it was the best out of a bad situation. Reality I have many stories like this but I look back and thank God for wisdom on how to see the light rather than the darkness.

I have seen my fair share of “life made easy” by way of God’s favor. Times when I did not see the silver lining. BUT GOD!!! My Mom use to sing a song “I’m Blessed” the lyrics in the song that stand out the most to me is

” I may not have houses and wealth and I may not have all my strength and health. But I know I am blessed, better than blessed THANK  you Lord”

This is so profound to me is because I look at what life has afforded me and I thank God for those blessings, not for what I don’t have but what is right in front of me. This makes life, the present moment bearable. I want more out of life not so much in possessions as experience. Experiences I can take with me and share with others, simple yet true.

How do you uncomplicate your life? Made Easy is about how you look at a difficult situation.  Do you see hope at the end? Can you see the light at the end of the tunnel?

Life made easy is trusting God