Designed to Radiate

Lately, I have found that people and things will be sent or allowed into your life to push you into growth. Regardless of their role in your life, good or bad intent.

Sometimes you’ll sit in problems (i.e. personal struggles, relationship issues, worries brought on by this world) and not even realize how much it has affected you and started to change you. It’s like you’ve gone off track, slowed down, or not longer moving forward.

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I am so grateful for positive people in my life that have been able to speak into my life and see problems that I was blinded to, and confirm what God was already telling me about myself. I could have just listened to God in the first place because he already gave me the answer for change, but I guess hearing it again let me know that some things needed to change.

It’s weird to say, but I am also grateful for the tough lessons I have learned from going through life with people that were only in my life for a season. I grew to understand that those relationships weren’t aligned with the direction/ path God has me on, but those relationships helped expose some parts of my character I needed to work on. 

Those lessons along with maturity over time, I have learned that I can’t allow certain situations, people, unclear perceptions to influence the trajectory of my life. I have to take ownership of my own life. 

I have taken ownership by:

• Simply taking a step back. Getting quiet with God.
• Reading the word of God and applying it.
• Working on healthy discernment. Listening to the holy spirit guiding me.
• Focusing on my health: taking care of my temple physically (exercise) and mentally (good counsel).
• Focusing on fixing my problems/issues and not others. I can be of encouragement, provide resources, pray for their situation, but I can not take it on. 
• No longer enabling toxicity in my life, but to call it out and no longer partake in it just so people feel comfortable living that way around me. 
• No longer tolerating how people treat me just so I can keep them in my life. (I’d rather go through this life with God alone than be a fool and allow people in my life that only tear me down). 
• Instead, finding a community of people that will add to my growth as a person and spiritually, and I have the opportunity to do the same for them. 

-I don’t blame anyone, but rather I take responsibility.  I am remembering who I am, limiting access to things/ people that are trying to grab a hold of me and distract, and take the necessary steps to grow up!- 

Very grateful for the leaders that have spoken into my life with sound wisdom and discernment and helped me see what my next steps in development are.  Sometimes we don’t want to hear the hard truths about ourselves, but the push is necessary for the long-term growth. 

“The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and instruction”

– Proverbs 1:7