Lili Fitness

Our lives can be either driven by our schedules or by spirit. They can be driven by the constant chatter of our minds or by a place of calm. They can be driven by impulse or by wisdom.

Precious, sacred silence is one of our most essential friends. Our silent time reminds us of who we are and it gives us access to amazing wisdom from which we are guided when making our daily decisions. So why is it so difficult to write it on today’s schedule? Why is it so hard to make time to be still? 

Many of us now have a spiritual practice during which we pray for assistance, read the word of God, meditate, focus on gratitude or find ways to inspire our heart. But as we know, the world pulls ferociously in different directions. It begs us to pay attention, to divide our time, to finish tasks, to distract our focus and to be busier than it’s good for our souls. 

It takes a mindful effort and awareness to revisit our priorities often, and make the time to connect with our spirit and most importantly, with God our Father. Truly, having this time is the most important thing we will do in the day. When we can set the time to do this first in our day, the rest of the day is driven by moments of intuition gained from connecting mindfully with the source of all love, peace and light.

This is not a duty or an effort. We don’t work to be more spiritually connected; it is who we are. This desire to connect is already within us. All we have to do is set aside time to check in and to let the noise drop away for long enough to reveal the beauty and calm that resides within us. And if we can just hover there…open… For a moment without jumping in with a thought, within that stillness, is when we’re able to activate our soul’s wisdom and when we will be able to hear directly from God. ♥️

Having a time during the day to calm the mind and still the soul can be a challenging practice. But that is one of those things that will have lasting consequences in our lives. We deserve to create moments of internal peace for ourselves. Moments to gain higher intuition and guidance. The rewards of doing this for ourselves will reach across all aspects of our being. Every day is a good day to begin learning or to practice praying with a sincere heart and having a moment of stillness to just listen and connect to the divine.

This week I’ve had a lot on my to do list. But I’ve made it a point to set aside time to be with God. To connect to my source of peace, to open my heart to Him and to just listen. I can’t tell you the amazing words that my soul, mind and heart were filled with. Words of love, encouragement, kindness and peace. I felt all of my worries and stresses completely leave my mind, because I was able to personally feel the Savior directly speaking to me.

I felt His presence. I heard in my heart and mind Him telling me that there’s nothing greater in this world and in this life than the ability or the gift to be able to come to KNOW CHRIST. ♥️ To be able to be a WITNESS of CHRIST. 😭

That experience, took everything that I was “praying for or worried about” completely away from me. In that instant, all of the fears left my soul. I felt completely still and at peace with God. I knew what I heard, what I felt, and I clearly saw in my mind that Jesus Christ was with me in that moment. No amount of money, power, status, popularity, or whatever else we are attached to on this earth, matters more than COMING TO KNOW CHRIST. 

I want to testify to all of you, that when we truly have the desire to come to God, we can find Him in stillness. If we make the time for Him, He will quiet our minds and souls and we will be able to hear directly from Him! 😭 There’s nothing more amazing than hearing directly from the source. 💛He wants to guide us, help us, give us peace, un attach us from the things that keep us stuck in this world. He wants us to come to know Him and to see and experience for ourselves how amazing this loving God is. He has a plan for each one of us and He is fully aware of all that we have in our hearts and minds. 

I invite you to come to Him and experience opening your heart, mind and soul to God. Ask Him to help you find stillness in your soul and experience the love and peace of a loving God for yourself. ♥️🥰

Our goal for this week is to create more peaceful moments, to quiet our minds, be still and listen. We can ask for inspiration, breathe and take a moment to write down what we feel. As we’re able to keep those notes throughout the week, we will see that God does speak to us. Directly to our heart ♥️ That internal peace is always available to us. Silence and peace can become our new friend. God wants to remind us that we can create moments to be still, to Still our souls and to know that He is God. Invite more of that light and wisdom into your day and you’ll feel the difference.

As we choose to make time for moments of peace and quiet. We will be better able to express our feelings to our Father in Heaven. We will be better able to find peace for our soul, we will be open to allowing the light of Christ to enter more deeply into our lives. Allowing Him to purify and remove our negative thoughts and feelings and instead inviting the healing light of the Savior to cover us completely. 

I fully believe that it is part of our earthly experience to come and live in these bodies. So that we may learn to live and take care of them. But also, so that we may LEARN to go within ourselves to find the divine stillness that can only come from the presence of God. From where our spirits were born. We must learn this skill of going within and quieting the mind and the world. To really know that we TRUST GOD. To connect to Him in prayer and in spirit. 

As we PRACTICE this skill, we will feel a stronger connection to Heaven. More inspiration and insights will come. We will be better able to handle our problems and we will have more trust and faith in God. We will gain a confidence that is divine and rises above any type of worldly confidence. There’s no degree, no amount of money, Power or no self help courses that can bring the type of confidence and peace that only the spirit of God can provide to our souls. 

May we quiet our words, calm our thoughts, soften our hearts and still our souls daily, so that we may listen, be open, have faith and receive. & most importantly, let your spirit lead and remember to BE STILL AND KNOW THAT HE IS GOD. 

Make it your goal today to come to class tonight at 7pm! Class will be canceled next week. So, hopefully you can make it today. The hardest thing is always showing up. So, put on your workout clothes as a sign of the promise that you’re making to yourself to be there. Turn your attention away from the world and focus on giving yourself the gift of one hour to yourself tonight. Our meditation will be focused on stillness and allowing God to speak to ourselves. So, come and give yourself the gift of slowing down. You deserve it! ♥️

Remember that God loves you, He wants to hear from you! Make it your priority this week to make quiet moments for Him and to strengthen yourself from within. Notice His hand in your life and thank Him for your many blessings. He will guide you on what to focus on each hour of your day. & don’t forget that you can do all things through Christ who strengthens you. ♥️🥰🙏🏼

Love,

Lili 🌸

Every day, thoughts flow through our minds like a constant stream. Some are uplifting, while others weigh us down. We allow our minds to go back in the past to “re-live it” or we think about the future and about what may or may not happen. :/

Our thoughts take a lot of our mental energy, they take our time and influence how we feel and react daily. We often forget that we can actually choose what to think about. We forget to be HERE, right now, instead of allowing our minds to be stuck in past or future thinking. Instead, we can choose to focus on inviting what would be the best thought to have at this very moment. 💛

The scriptures remind us in: Proverbs 23:7, “For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he,” Our thoughts shape us! So, shouldn’t we try to make our thoughts the best they can be daily?

Philippians 2:5 also says: “Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus”. The Savior invites us to turn to Him when negative or destructive thoughts cloud our hearts. He is the one who can help us replace those thoughts with light and peace. 💖

As much as we want to present and live in the present sometimes our minds just want to bring up all of these thoughts and we have to help ourselves through those moments. I actually had an opportunity to practice that this week. I’m thankful for the wisdom that I gained and I wanted to share it with you. I had a few negative thoughts that kept coming to my mind and I felt like all of these negative feelings would rush right back to my mind all over again 😖 I didn’t like what I was feeling. So, I decided to ask God to help me through it and to be with me during that thought. I asked God to guide me and to help move me away from the negative thoughts. I asked God to teach me instead what im meant to learn from that thought and to help me know what I should focus on instead.

As I was thinking about the Savior being with me during even to the point of seeing the Savior standing next to me in my thoughts…I notices that He was able to guide me to have way MORE LOVE and COMPASSION for myself and for those involved in the thoughts that I was having. I felt my feelings toward the people involved change from negative to now being compassionate, kind and to even extend LOVE to them! Only having God with me in my mind, helping me heal the situation internally was truly amazing and exactly what I needed. 🥲

How amazing that God was able to help me change what once was a negative thought, to now becoming a thought that allows me to have more forgiveness, kindness, compassion and even love for those involved and for myself. It’s something that happened in the past, but God is allowing me to HEAL the thoughts in my mind through compassion. & in healing the thoughts, I heal myself. This in turn allowed me to feel more peaceful and calm in the present moment. It reminded me that I can trust that God would help me even in ALL THINGS! Including in my internal struggles and in healing my thoughts, my mind and my heart. 💖

So, take a moment to think about a situation that you would like to fix in your mind. Take some deep breaths and allow God or The Savior Jesus Christ to come and be right there next to you in that thought. What would the Lord tell you about yourself and about the situation? Or what would He tell you about the person involved? What is the message God would want you to learn from this experience? and how can you walk away a better person after having had Christ be involved in this thought? How can He help you heal it? And instead turn it into a thought that is healed.

Doing this exercise allows you to then come back to the present feeling more peaceful and able to now invite more light into your heart and mind at this very moment. Now you can ask yourself “What does God want me to feel at this very moment?” 🤍 And juts stay there for a minute to really feel what comes to your mind and heart. Continue breathing until you feel fully at peace.

God wants us to remember that we are eternal beings with divine DNA flowing through us…We are pure at the core. When we pause and step back, we see that negative thoughts don’t define us; they are simply passing clouds. With awareness, we can choose not to feed them, but we can choose instead to either let them drift away from us or allow God to be present in that thought and to HELP US HEAL IT! ❤️

How amazing that we can do that for our own minds? The world around us doesn’t even think about this type of insight…..Only those of us who are working on ourselves will find the little bits of divine wisdom that God shares with us and I’m so thankful that God allowed me to have this inspiration that blessed me soooo much this week. I testify that He does provide abundantly for all of us. Enough to even heal our internal minds and thoughts & to make them better for us. 🥹 He truly is a healer and we don’t have to be attached to our negative thoughts.

Like a muscle, 💪🏼 we can train our minds and thoughts to be better and more aligned to love, peace, compassion, gratitude and all that is good and that comes from our creator. ♥️

So, let’s make it our practice this week. Instead of getting stuck in thoughts of “I’m not enough, or negative thoughts,” We will choose to shift to “I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me” (Philippians 4:13). Instead of thinking “This situation will never change,” we can reframe it to “God can work miracles, even in small ways, in His time.”

We need to TRUST IN GOD! & in the spirit that leads us to do good! The spirit of Christ whispers truth and peace when we align our thoughts with God: John 14:27 sayas “But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.

27 Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid..”

As we invite Christ into our inner dialogue, He doesn’t just silence the darkness—He replaces it with His light, with hope, with peace, with His LOVE and with the reminder of who we really are: beloved children of God.🥹❤️

✨ Here’s a Simple Practice/Goal for us this week.

• When a negative thought arises, pause.

• Breathe and say, “Christ, be with me here.”

• Reframe the thought into one rooted in truth, love, compassion, peace and possibility.

• Let gratitude fill the space where fear or judgment once lived. And allow God to bring to your mind the best thought to have at this very moment.

With time, we learn that we don’t have to battle our thoughts alone. Christ walks with us, transforming heaviness into peace, fear into faith, and doubt into love.❤️

Can’t wait to see you tonight at 7pm! To not only release stress but to also do something amazing for our Body, Mind and Spirit. 🥹💖 Please invite anyone who you think would benefit from this class. Tonight our meditation will be all about changing those negative thoughts into positive thoughts instead. 💪🏼🥰💛

Love you all and hope to see you there!

💖

Lili

We all experience times of disappointment or when things don’t work out as we had planned. Oftentimes one of the greatest sources of pain is not what actually happened… but what we expected would happen.

We expect people to understand us, support us, include us, comfort us, respond the right way, or love us the way we love them. We expect circumstances to work out perfectly and prayers to be answered quickly. And when those expectations are unmet, our peace can begin to fail, unravel and we can feel disappointed and sad.

It’s important to know that we can all acknowledge and take a moment to mourn the things that maybe didn’t work out the way we had hoped or planned. Life teaches us different lessons, and it’s important for us to be ok with mourning the losses…but at the same time we also need to be open to learning, growing and coming to God to receive His wisdom on how to react to the circumstances we may be facing.

The Savior taught us something beautiful in John chapter 14. This is when Jesus is speaking to His disciples during a deeply uncertain and emotional moment. He knew they were afraid. He knew things would not unfold the way they had hoped. And yet He lovingly told them:

“Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me.” John 14:1

I love that reminder! The reason I’m writing this message, is because I had an experience this week with “expectations” not going the way I had planned. I found myself “mourning” what I had hoped would happen. But I made a choice to get on my knees and pray. I asked God to help me process my emotions and I love what He did for me after praying.

I felt the Lord speak to my heart and He told me to look at the scriptures on my nightstand and just open them. When I happened to open to John 14 and I began reading. I could feel that the lord was speaking directly to me! 🥹 He told me to “not let my heart be troubled by those things”. He told me to BELIEVE IN GOD AND BELIEVE IN HIM! In my Savior Jesus Christ who had just answered another one of my prayers. I felt so grateful for that. 😭💖

He didn’t tell me anything about my circumstances changing. In fact, nothing had changed at that moment. But I realized that there was absolute power in the words of Christ. I could allow the circumstances to get to me and bring me down. OR, I could allow myself to believe in the Savior! In His wisdom for my life and the plan that He has for me. I could put my trust in God more than I trust in people, finances, health, circumstances or anything else that I put above God.

I felt strongly and I actually told my kids that Jesus Christ is the BEST THERAPIST IN THE WORLD!! 😝🌎 I came to Him when I needed Him and He spoke directly to my heart at the moment when I needed Him to. By inviting me to read John 14: 13-14 Where He says; 

13. “And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name⁠, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.

14 If ye shall ask any thing in my name, I will do it.”

Those words are exactly what I needed to hear! I came to Him and asked Him to help me process my emotions and calm my heart and after reading that I asked! believing that Jesus Christ could do that for me, and He did!!! I instantly felt my mind calming down. My thoughts stopped worrying me and taking over my mind and heart with that heaviness…My heart became peaceful and I realized that I was actually receiving this directly from God! My circumstances didn’t change, but He changed ME! He calmed my mind and heart. & that’s what I needed. ❤️❤️❤️

He invites all of us to TRUST HIM. Life won’t be perfect or the way we hope sometimes. But He is ready to help us through it and heal our troubled hearts. He is truly the only one who can provide the peace that is impossible to get through any other means. No amount of money, power, health, prosperity or whatever can provide the peace of God.

🕊️I learned a lesson this week; and it’s that a lot of our own emotional exhaustion comes from unconsciously handing our “inner peace” over to things we can’t control! 😳

I realized that that’s exactly what I did this week. I handed over my emotions to circumstances or people. 🤦🏻‍♀️ Instead of protecting my inner peace, controlling my emotions better and most importantly coming to the BEST THERAPIST! 😉 JESUS CHRIST to allow Him to speak to my heart and guide my mind and heart to what I call “divine calm.” I call it that, because the world can’t understand what that feels like. But when God can calm your heart, and mind…you know what that feels like, and it is divine, beautiful and a solid peace that is not found anywhere else. 💛

So, let’s recognize how we hand over our emotions based on

• another person’s choices

• other people’s opinions

• outcomes

• timing

• plans

• disappointments

• unmet hopes

When we build our emotional stability on changing circumstances, our hearts rise and fall constantly. & there’s no peace in that. 😣

But Jesus Christ offers a steadier foundation. 💪🏼🥰The Savior never promised a life free of disappointment. But He did promise HIS PRESENCE TO BE WITH US IN THE CIRCUMSTANCES! 🥹 & isn’t that amazing?!?

I hope that we can have the eyes to see, recognize and enjoy the ABUNDANCE of God’s love when we can feel Him be so present in our lives. From the little daily blessings, to the moments when prayers are answered…He truly is there and we are so richly blessed by those experiences. I don’t think we recognize how blessed we are most of the time. Being RICH in God, is definitely way better and more fulfilling than being rich in the ways of the world. $🤷🏻‍♀️

So, no matter what you’re going through today. Remember that you don’t have to hand over your emotions to circumstances or people etc. You can control and protect your feelings and emotions. You can come to God and BELIEVE IN HIM! Believe in what only HE can provide to your heart and mind.

This is what He tells you today; 🥹

“Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.” 💛John 14:27 

The world’s peace says:

“I’ll be okay when everyone else changes.”

Christ’s peace says:

“You can still be okay even while things remain unfinished, uncertain, or imperfect.”❤️🥹🙏🏼

How beautiful is that?!? That Christ can be with us in this very imperfect and possibly disappointing moment, and yet we can be FILLED with His peace and His love. Which is really all we need for today. 🥹🤍🙏🏼

That kind of peace is deeply beautiful and spiritual. I hope that each one of us can come to God ourselves and ask Him for it. He promised that we could ask in the name of Jesus Christ, and we will receive! That the father may be glorified in the Son. 🥹 He wants to hear us! Help us and experience for ourselves what having true faith in Christ is really about. We just need to believe, ask and act. 

As we choose to come to Him we will see that our Savior can allow us to surrender the illusion that we must control everything around us in order to feel safe inside ourselves. 

Sometimes healing begins when we stop asking:

“Why didn’t this person or circumstances meet my expectations?”….

And instead ask:

“How can I stay connected to Christ regardless of what happens around me?” 🥹❤️🙏🏼

I hope that you know that Jesus Christ is the only completely steady source of love, truth, comfort, and understanding throughout your life. When People, even good people, things, situations or circumstances fail us or shift. Or when plans collapse, just know that Christ truly is the one that remains constant regardless of the ups and downs of life.

He understands every disappointment that we carry quietly in our hearts. He knows the grief of feeling unseen, let down, forgotten, or emotionally overwhelmed. And unlike the world, He never withdraws His love when we are struggling. The more we anchor ourselves in Him, the less power circumstances have over our emotional state. ⚓️😌

Not because our feelings don’t matter. But because His presence becomes greater than the storms we may be facing.

So, we must remember to stop placing the weight of our peace into human hands or circumstances. Instead I invite each one of us to place it into the hands of our Savior Jesus Christ instead. 🤲🏼❤️

He is not asking us to pretend that things do not hurt. He is asking us to remember that hurt does not have to own you. 🙂 That you can do all things through Christ who strengthens you and that all will be ok as you allow Him to be with you from one moment to the next.

Our meditation tonight in class will be similar to this. I want to share it on here in case many of your aren’t able to make it to class or for when you need to read it or practice it yourselves.

Close your eyes for a moment and take a slow breath in.

Unclench your jaw. Relax your shoulders. Let your hands rest softly.

Take some deep breaths and calm your mind and heart.

When you feel at peace, imagine yourself placing every unmet expectation into the Savior’s hands:

the conversations that hurt, 

the plans that failed, 

the loneliness, 

the frustration, 

the longing for things to be different.

Picture Him receiving it all with complete understanding and perfect compassion.

Breathe again.

As you exhale, quietly repeat: 

“Lord, I trust Thee more than I trust my circumstances.”

Sit in that stillness for a moment.

Let your nervous system remember that peace is possible even before everything is resolved.

Out physical goal for the week is:

Spend at least 20 minutes each day moving your body gently. For example; walking outside, stretching, lifting weights, or breathing deeply in the sunlight. Let movement become a reminder that your body was created to carry peace, not just stress.

& our spiritual goal for the week is:

To read John chapter 14 slowly this week. Maybe each day, choose one verse to focus on and ask:

“What is the Savior teaching me about trust, peace, and fear?”

Write down one thing each day that you are choosing to release into Christ’s hands.

& remind yourself that true healing doesn’t come from finally being able to control life, people or circumstances. It comes from learning that even in uncertainty, we are safely held by the Savior of the world. 🌎 or the BEST therapist in the world 😉❤️🙏🏼

Love you all and hope that you can make it tonight to release stress and strengthen yourself and also to release what feels heavy. Hope that you can give yourself this gift today and invite others to benefit as well. 🥰

Love,

Lili 🌸

In a world full of uncertainty and challenges, developing trust in God is essential to finding peace, purpose, and direction in life. Trusting in God means having faith in His wisdom, love, and ability to guide us through every aspect of our lives. This trust requires more than just believing in His existence. It’s a confident expectation that He will fulfill His promises to us as we strive to live according to His will.

Trusting in God is not just about passive belief, but purposefully relying on His timing, wisdom, and love. It means that we turn to Him in all aspects of our lives, whether in times of joy or trial. As Proverbs 3:5-6 reminds us to: “Trust in the Lord with all thine heart and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy always acknowledge Him, and he shall direct thy paths.”

This passage teaches us that when we place our trust in God, we let go of the need to control everything in our lives. Instead of relying solely on our limited understanding, we turn to the Lord, trusting that He sees the bigger picture and knows what is best for us. Trusting God also requires patience, understanding that His timing may not always align with ours, but that His timing is actually always perfect.

Take a moment to think about the ways in which you are building and strengthening your trust in God. 💛

Building trust in God is a daily process that requires faith, effort, and consistency. There are things that can help us build and strengthen our trust in him. For example: We can choose to pray with real intent. I love finding a quiet place if posible in nature for me to speak to my Father in Heaven. I need that time alone to align my thoughts and my soul and to be ready to Hear Him speak to me too. Prayer is our direct line of communication with God. When we pray sincerely, seeking His guidance, when we show Him that we are willing to listen, we invite his presence into our lives.

Can you imagine God seeing His precious daughter humbly praying and asking Him for help? The God that we love and serve is a God who is filled with compassion. He rejoices when we come to Him, and He wants us to know that we are never alone. That He does hear us and He wants us to feel His love and peace as we pray. We can purposefully try to remember daily, that every time we pray, we invite His presence to be with us. We can trust and believe that He will make Himself knows unto us through His spirit, so that we may feel His love, His guiding peace and the light that He can provide for our daily lives. ☀️ We can feel His love through nature, animals, the sunshine, a smile or a hug. We just need to have eyes to see Gods hand today.

Another important way to build trust in God, is for us to study His words. The Scriptures have so many examples and stories of how God has delivered, protected and blessed His people. As we learned from the words of God, those words also testify to us and teach us that God is always faithful to those who trust Him.

One of the things that we learn from reading the words of God, is that He has asked us to keep His commandments. He’s done this because He loves us and knows that as we choose to follow and keep His commandments this will bring blessings into our lives. To be obedient means that we’re submissive, malleable, meek and willing to be taught and shaped into who our Father in Heaven would like us to become. Obedience to God (who knows it all) is truly beautiful and rewarding. It brings a peace that will be eternal. There’s no one better in this world to follow than to want to trust and obey what God asks us to do. He is our loving Father and creator. There is wisdom in His words. ❤️

Obedience to God’s commandments is one of the clearest ways for us to show our trust in Him. As we follow His guidance, and live according to what He has asked of us, we invite blessings to come into our lives. We may not always see the immediate fruits of our obedience, but trusting that God‘s ways are higher than ours, will lead us to eternal blessings.

As our trust in God grows, we begin to exercise better faith amidst our trials. Trusting God doesn’t mean that life will be free of challenges. In fact, trials are often the very means by which our trust in God is tested and strengthened.

President Thomas S. Monson once said “Trust in the Lord with all your heart. He will do for you what no other power can. He will extend His arms of mercy toward you, to lift you up, and to carry you when you need His support.” When we face difficulties with faith, trusting that God has a purpose in our suffering, we can find comfort and peace, knowing that He is shaping us into who we are meant to become.

And what about what God will do for us as we trust Him?

God has made so many beautiful promises to those who trust in Him. While we may not always see the results of our faith immediately, we are assured that God will always bless us according to His will and timing. Some of these blessings can be:

💖 Having Peace Amidst Adversity:

Trusting in God, doesn’t eliminate challenges, but it does bring an inner peace that sustains us through them. The savior promised, “Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.” (John 14:27). This peace comes from knowing that God is in control, even when life feels uncertain. He can HUSH our thoughts. Calm our fears and even when we don’t understand why things are happening. He can give us comfort and a sense of calm in our storm. Trusting that ALL WILL BE OK. 💛

💖 Another blessing is; Receiving Guidance & Direction: When we trust in God, we can know for sure that He will lead us on the path that is right for us. Whether through promptings of the spirit, the council of leaders or the impressions we receive as we study the scriptures, God will direct our steps as we seek His will.

💖 God promises to give us the strength to overcome: Trusting in God gives us the strength to phase our challenges with courage and faith. As we rely on His power, we are promised that we can overcome ALL things. As Paul wrote, “I can do all things through Christ, which strengtheneth me” (Philippians 4:13)

And finally, God promises us His eternal reward. God‘s greatest promise to those who trust in Him, is eternal life. As we remain faithful and trust in His plan throughout our lives, we are promised the opportunity to return to live with Him and our families for eternity. This eternal perspective is one too the things that can help us endure the trials of life with patience and hope. 🫶🏼

It’s better to trust God than to trust anything or anyone else on this earth. Regardless of your challenges and circumstances that you may be facing today, just turn it all over to God. Trust in Him. Trusting in God is not a one-time decision but a lifelong journey of faith. It involves continually and DAILY turning our hearts and minds toward Him, especially when we face uncertainties or challenges.

As we develop this trust, we will find peace, guidance, and strength, knowing that God loves us and will fulfill His promises to us.

So, today I want to invite you to build a stronger relationship with your loving creator. Strengthen your relationship with Him through the power of prayer. Open your heart to Him. Hear Him. 💛 Remember that the enemy never wants you to pray, he never wants you to discover what you can accomplish with God. So, make it your priority to PRAY MORE! To let God know everything that is in your heart and mind and be willing to listen and ACT upon what God places in your heart. Read from His words daily, study His life and obey His commandments in Joy.

This will allow us to be strong spiritually, mentally and physically ❤️ God will bless us in every aspect of our lives as we strive to follow Him and TRUST in HIM. We can develop the deep trust that allows us to say, “Not mine, but thy will be done,”

God’s plan for us is far greater than anything we could plan for ourselves. Let’s TRUST HIM, LOVE HIM AND DO OUR BEST ONE DAY AT A TIME. ❤️

If you need to let go of stress, I invite you to give yourself one hour today to come to class. I promise that you will be able to release stress and tension and you will leave feeling peaceful, stronger and renewed. I hope that you can make it tonight at 7 PM, and invite others to benefit as well. Class will be canceled next week. So, join us today and feel the difference for the next few weeks. 🥰💖

Love,

Lili 🌸

There are moments in life when our physical eyes see only the difficulties, heartache, uncertainty, disappointment, stress or fear. We focus on the closed doors, unanswered prayers, broken relationships, financial struggles, illness, or dreams that seem to be slipping away. In these moments our natural eyes can only see what is happening around us, but God wants to invite us to see something much greater.💛

This week I’ve been learning about how the prophet Elisha understood this principle of “opening our spiritual eyes to see.” When his servant became terrified after seeing an enemy army surrounding them, Elisha didn’t pray for the army to disappear first. Instead, he prayed:

“Lord, I pray thee, open his eyes, that he may see.” 2 Kings 6:17

Immediately, the servant’s eyes were opened, and he saw that the mountains were filled with heavenly horses and chariots of fire surrounding them. The danger had not disappeared, but now he could also see God’s protection.

One of the greatest prayers we can offer, is not to say, “ Please change my circumstances,” but to instead say; “ Heavenly Father please open my spiritual eyes that I may see.”

When our spiritual eyes are opened, our circumstances may not change immediately, but our perspective does. We can focus on turning our hearts away from what we lack, from our fears, to focusing on having divine perspective instead.

I’ve realized that when I ask the Lord to open my spiritual eyes, He doesn’t always change my circumstances right away, but He almost always changes my perspective. He reminds me that He is working, even when I can’t see it. He helps me notice His tender mercies, His miracles, and His loving hand in moments when I would have otherwise overlooked.

He has also helped me to have spiritual eyes to focus on gratitude or to recognize the tactics of the enemy and He reminds me of ways in which I can protect my mind, heart and soul form the adversary. Without spiritual eyes we wouldn’t be able to recognize the Lords ways vs the enemy.

Spiritual eyes can help us to recognize God’s hand, we can notice His tender mercies that may be hidden in the difficult days. We can see that He provides daily ☀️ and that He has been walking beside us all along.

This story of Elisha also reminds us to ask ourselves

How often are we like that servant?

We become overwhelmed, fearful and anxious because we see the obstacle but not the God who is greater than the obstacle. We see the storm but forget the Savior who walks on the water. We see the mountain, but fail to notice the God who moves those mountains.

Faith is learning to trust what God sees even when we cannot.

Sometimes God opens our spiritual eyes by helping us recognize that an unanswered prayer is actually divine protection. Other times He helps us see that our waiting is preparing us for something greater that He has for us. Or there may be times when He lets us know that the trial itself is becoming the actual instrument He is using to refine our hearts and draw us closer to Him.

The Apostle Paul taught:

“…we walk by faith, not by sight.” 2 Corinthians 5:7

Walking by faith means trusting that God is doing things we cannot yet see. It means believing that His timing is perfect, even when it doesn’t match our own. When we have faith we’re OPTIMISTIC In the trust that we have in a loving and amazing God. ❤️🥰🙏🏼

President Russell M. Nelson once said, “The Lord loves effort because effort brings rewards that can’t come without it.” One of the greatest efforts we can make is choosing to seek heaven’s perspective every day.

So today, instead of only asking the Lord to remove your trial, try asking Him to help you see it differently. Think of ways in which you can put effort toward coming closer to God or working toward what He has put in your heart.

Ask Him one day at a time to open your spiritual eyes.

You may begin to notice blessings you hadn’t seen before, angels you can actually feel! strength you didn’t know you had, lessons you wouldn’t have learned otherwise you had to wait. Today, let the Lord guide your mind and heart to acknowledge and see the evidence that God has been walking beside you all along.

When we begin to see through the eyes of faith, we realize that we are never facing life’s challenges alone. There’s a purpose and a divine timing that we can trust. For now, we can just hold on to our creator and allow Him to come and help us open our eyes that we may see with spiritual eyes one day at a time. 🥹

The more we pray, the more we see & the more we see the more power we have to transform our discouragement into hope, confusion into peace, and fear into faith. 💪🏼🥰 Truly, with Christ all things are possible. ❤️

Take a moment to breathe and say a little prayer asking the Lord to help you open your spiritual eyes so that you may see what He would like to show you in this very moment. Let yourself have a moment with the Savior, let go of what’s heavy in your heart and allow His to help you see. Write down any impressions, visions or thoughts that come to you. God loves you and wants to show you what He has for you. 💛

Our Spiritual Goal for This Week

Each morning, begin your prayers by asking, “Father, please open my spiritual eyes today.” Throughout the day, write down at least one moment where you recognized God’s hand, guidance, comfort, or blessing, even if it seemed small.

Our Physical Goal for This Week

Spend at least 20 minutes each day walking outdoors without distractions. As you walk, intentionally observe God’s creation. Notice the colors, sounds, sunlight, breeze, trees, birds, and flowers. Let nature speak to you and remind you that the same creator who sustains the world is faithfully sustaining you. 💖

Hope that you can make it to class tonight at 7pm! Our focus will be to give ourselves a little more love by moving our body, releasing stress and having an amazing and relaxing meditation. Hope that you can join us and invite others to benefit as well. 🥰❤️🙏🏼

Love,

Lili 🌸

We all long for miracles.

Some of us pray for healing, for loved ones, for answers, for a restored relationship, financial relief, direction, or peace after heartache. There are times when our hearts may quietly whisper, “Lord, I know YOU can… but will You?”

The truth is that our Heavenly Father is still a God of miracles. The scriptures tell us that He’s unchanging from beginning to end. (Hebrews 13:8) “Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and forever.”

We know that the God who created all things is still present and miracles still happen. What prevents the us from seeing the miracles is but our unbelief. We question Gods abilities, we don’t think it can happen to us etc. But this is when we need to remember that He is an unchanging God who has already in the past blessed each one of us with miracles and He will do it again. 💛

We also need to remember that the greatest miracle isn’t always the one we’re asking for. Sometimes the greatest miracle is what He does within us while we wait for what He will do for us. 🥹 Often times it’s in our daily prayers that He changes us and prepares us for what is coming in His will and timing.

The miracle begins with trust. 💪🏼

Faith is believing that God can. ❤️

Trust is believing that God will do what is best, even if it looks different than we imagined.

The Savior invites us to trust Him completely when He tells us:

“Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.” (Proverbs 3:5–6)

When we surrender our own timeline or how we want things to work out and instead we place our lives into His hands, our hearts become fertile ground where miracles can grow.🤲🏻🌱

The scriptures don’t teach us a specific formula that guarantees miracles right away. Instead, they teach us a pattern of discipleship that prepares our hearts to recognize and receive the Lord’s miraculous hand.

That pattern includes:

Pray with real intent and faith.

Study the word of God daily.

Keep your covenants.

Repent quickly and seek the companionship of the Holy Ghost.

Act in faith, even before you see the outcome.

Give thanks before the answer comes.

Trust God’s timing more than your own.

The Lord promises:

“If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed… nothing shall be impossible unto you.”(Matthew 17:20)

And Moroni teaches:

“Neither at any time hath any wrought miracles until after their faith.” Ether 12:12

We can see that miracles often come after faith, not before it. For example would we plant a seed if we didn’t believe that it would grow? The same is with us. We have to first plant and believe before we even see the miracle. EVERYTHING we do in our daily lives requires faith and action! We are constantly practicing it. First we see it in our minds, we believe we can do it, we take action and accomplish it. The same is with our miracles. We believe, we trust in God, we take action and wait on His timing.

I heard something beautiful which says; “Faith is not waiting for evidence before believing. Faith is choosing to believe while heaven is still quiet.” The Lord knows us, He hears us, He knows all that is in our hearts. When heaven feels quiet He may be polishing another part of ourselves that is necessary before the miracle comes. ALWAYS TRUST IN HIS TIMING.❤️

Sometimes we think a miracle means circumstances changing. Yet one of Christ’s greatest gifts is PEACE in the middle of unanswered prayers. I’m SO thankful for the moments when “my miracle hasn’t happened” and I feel this incredible amount of peace! That’s how I know the Lord is right here with me. I hope that you can recognize the moments when God provides you peace even though the circumstances haven’t changed. Peace is one of the most amazing answers we can receive from the Lord. Consider that a miracle in itself. We just need the eyes to see the miracles in our daily lives.

The Lord promised:

“Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you, not as the world giveth give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.”— John 14:27

When our circumstances remain the same, but our hearts become calm, that is heaven touching our hearts. That is the testimony that there is a loving God who is able and willing to calm our hearts and fill us with His peace while we trust and wait. 🤍

Also remember that the miracle may begin long before the situation changes.We have no idea what the Lord is working behind the scenes before the miracles come. We just have to trust in Him daily and look for the daily gifts that He provides. ☀️

Every day we can wake up believing:

“Today the Lord will strengthen me.”

“Today He will guide me.”

“Today He will open a door I cannot yet see.”

“Today I will witness His hand in my life.”

As we begin looking for His hand, we discover that miracles are often woven into ordinary moments. A scripture that speaks directly to your heart, a song that touched your soul, peace after prayer, a phone call at the perfect time, an unexpected answer, renewed strength, a softened heart, a hug that was needed, a friend that was there or simply enough grace for one more day.

The children of Israel received manna one day at a time (see Exodus 16). God didn’t provide a year’s supply. He provided daily bread, teaching them that He could be trusted every single morning.☀️

The same is true for us.

He gives us enough light for today, enough strength for today, enough grace for today.

While we wait, we need to remember that God’s silence doesn’t mean He’s absent. He is a loving God and is actually working in ways we cannot yet see. Each day He is strengthening our faith, refining our character, preparing blessings and opening doors we cannot see.

The Lord who parted the Red Sea, raised Lazarus, and calmed the storm is still the same Savior today.❤️

Nothing is impossible for Him.

Your miracle may come differently than expected.

It may come gradually.

It may come through people, doctors, inspired ideas, opportunities, or quiet spiritual impressions.

But every prayer offered in faith is heard by a loving Father who knows exactly what His children need.

Keep trusting.

Keep believing.

Keep expecting Him to show up.

Because He always does.

At the end of it all, the greatest miracle is discovering that Christ has been carrying you all along. ❤️ He is our Savior. He hears our prayers, He loves us. Him & our Father in Heaven are the creators of love, the God who created this universe, the world, 🌎 and all that we we see, even the creator of our bodies. He is waiting for us to come to Him. Without forcing us but just with our willing heart turned to Him, to trust Him and BELIEVE IN HIM AND HIS TIMING. As we choose to trust we will have the eyes to see more and more miracles in our lives. ❤️🙏🏼🥰

Spiritual Goal This Week

Each morning, kneel in prayer and ask:

“Heavenly Father, help me recognize Your hand in my life today.”

Then each evening, write down three tender mercies or small miracles you noticed that day. As you begin looking for God’s hand, you’ll discover He has been walking beside you all along.

Physical Goal This Week

Take a 20-minute walk each day without distractions.

Leave your phone in your pocket. Notice the beauty around you. The warmth of the sun, the breeze, birds singing, flowers blooming, the rhythm of your breath. Let the beauty of creation remind you that the God who sustains the world is also sustaining you. 🥹❤️

Take a few deep breaths and try to hand your worries over to the Lord. Believe in the God of miracles and notice the little answers or fingerprints on f God in your life today.

Remember the Savior’s invitation:

“Be still, and know that I am God.”(Psalm 46:10)

Miracles are not always found at the end of the journey. Often, they are discovered in every faithful step we take with Christ.👣

Walk forward today with hope. Trust that the Lord is already preparing blessings you cannot yet imagine. His timing is perfect, His love is constant, and His miracles, whether quiet or extraordinary….always arrive with divine purpose.

I hope that you’re able to make to class tonight at 7pm for an amazing workout and a beautiful meditation that will allow us to release stress and trust more in the GOD OF MIRACLES. 💛🥹

Love you all and hope to see you there!

💖

Lili 🌺

This week I’ve been thinking about how easy it is for us to get overwhelmed and to overthink all kinds of scenarios and things that haven’t even happened in our minds. Do you do that too? 🤦🏻‍♀️

Thankfully, God is amazing and He can teach us in the most incredible ways if we’re willing to look for them. 💛This morning I stepped out to sit in my porch and I noticed this beautiful butterfly stuck inside my porch unable to get out.

I noticed how much it was panicking to find a way out. It kept flying into things and desperately trying to get out. So much energy was spent fighting a way out. I tried to get close to it to see if I could grab it gently, to help get it out of my porch. But as I got closer it would panic even more and it would fly far away from me where I couldn’t reach it.

As I looked at that butterfly, God taught me something. I just looked at it as it was panicking and hear or felt this voice in my heart say “this is exactly what I do!” I panic and worry about things when there’s someone right there who can help me. 🥺

Just like the butterfly, 🦋 we “flap our wings” in our moments when we get overwhelmed, stressed, scared, worried or anxious. Sadly, we are like that butterfly when we refuse to slow down and think of ways to try to get ourselves out from what is “trapping us.” We even panic when others try to help and in some cases we draw ourselves away from God! 😔 who is the one who can use His hands to help hold us and get us out.

There was a moment when this butterfly finally calmed down. It came down closer to a place where I could reach it. I noticed its wings stopped moving and i noticed the beautiful colors of its wings. It was finally calmed, relaxed and peaceful holding on to the screen but just calm. That was the moment when i was finally able to cup my hands and gently cover the butterfly to release it outside of the porch. 🦋👐

Sometimes all we need to do is calm ourselves down. Be here in the moment. Even though we may be “trapped in the screen porch.” Things may not happen right away when we ask because we may need a little more time to learn a new lesson, to learn how to calm down or to just quiet the stress and the panic by praying and asking God to help us take the NEXT BEST STEP.

We have a God who is loving, amazing, kind, generous and willing to reach out to us to rescue us. ❤️ We just need to try to be still and look for Him. We need His wisdom and guidance to help us reach the next step or to get us out of where He only can reach.

He isn’t asking us to understand everything. He is inviting us to stop worrying and fearing and instead TRUST HIM. Trust in what we cannot see yet. Trust in His guidance. Try to listen to the whisperings of what He tells us and follow what He says.

The Lord promises in Proverbs 3:5–6:

“Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.”

What can we let go of today to allow God to help us carry it. What can we hand over to Him? What inspiration will He bring to help you with your worries, your problems. With God all things are possible. Remember to let go and allow yourself to be placed fully in Gods hands.

Theres another scripture which says:

Look unto me in every thought; doubt not, fear not.” (D&C 6:37)

What a beautiful way to live! Instead of looking at every obstacle…We look to Christ.

Instead of carrying every burden…Place it in His hands.

Instead of demanding every answer…Be still and trust in what He has for you TODAY. Just take it ONE DAY AT A TIME. ☀️

Allow yourself to see what God is doing just today. One small miracle at a time.

There’s incredible peace that comes when we stop trying to control everything and begin trusting THE ONE who already sees the end from the beginning.

The future has never been ours to carry. It has always belonged to God.🦋❤️

Our responsibility is simply to seek Him each morning, listen for His voice, and faithfully follow the next impression or the next step that He places in our hearts.

The rest can remain safely in His hands.🤲🏻🤍

Our spiritual goal for the week is to let go and let GOD help us.

Our physical goal is to walk daily and be present during our walks. Maybe even talk to God and feel a connection to nature and to all of the beauty that God has for us to discover.

Love you all and hope to see you tonight at 7pm. For an amazing class and peaceful meditation. ❤️

Love

Lili

Life has a way of placing us in situations where we simply do not know what to do. We pray for answers, beg for miracles, and search for wisdom and certainty, yet we often find ourselves standing in the middle of what feels like unanswered prayers and uncertainty. But It is in those moments that we can choose to hold on to God or move away from Him.

Life challenges have taught me that being away from God is the worst way to handle life’s challenges. It’s been during the hardest times that God has shown up and been there for me, family and loved ones. It’s been during those moments when I’ve learned to remember that God has been present in the past and He will show up again in my life and in the lives of those who choose to see Him.

This life will have it’s challenges regardless of what we think…The amazing thing is that God invites us to learn one of the greatest lessons of discipleship during these times and that is the lesson of TRUSTING Him completely.

Faith begins with believing that God exists. I love to see the BIG PICTURE on life. I know that God exists when I look at the sun ☀️, the way all living things function, when I look at the animals and the beauty of this earth. I can see God when looking at the miracle of a newborn baby and how that works. I can see God in the way our own bodies work. In the planets on the molecules of water etc. Truly, ALL things testify that there is a God.

So, believing in God becomes stronger when we can see that we ourselves are a miracle and that we are know and created by that same divine light. That the love we’re capable of feeling can only come from a God who planted that level of love in our hearts. ❤️

The next step after believing is trusting. Trusting that He, our loving creator knows what He is doing…..even when we do not. It’s fully letting go and trusting that He will take care of us and bringing what is best for us and the development that each one of us needs to gain in this life. 🤍🙌🏼

The Lord has never promised a life free of challenges, but He has promised that He will walk with us through them. Christ himself knows our suffering and put himself in our shoes to be able to comfort us and help us.

This is when we remember these words;

“Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.”

(Proverbs 3:5–6)

Notice that the scripture doesn’t say, “Trust when you understand.” It says, “Lean not unto thine own understanding.” In life we won’t understand why things happen…sometimes we won’t have answers…But true trust begins when we stop demanding to see the entire staircase or all of the answers and we simply take the next step God places before us. 🪜 Taling the steps of trust and faith in Christ allows us to reach higher knowledge, wisdom and understanding than what we could gain on our own.

God’s greatest plan is for us to not be separated from Him, but instead He wants us to come to know Him and TRUST HIM all on our own free will and choice.

We can remind ourselves that out Big Amazing God can see what we cannot see. He knows the end from the beginning. While we see only a small piece of the puzzle, He sees the entire picture.

Trust grows as we remember God’s faithfulness in our lives. Every answered prayer, every tender mercy, and every moment of divine guidance, every moment that our heart was covered in peace, all of those things become evidence that He has never left us alone. Looking back often gives us the courage to move forward. ⏩

When we have complete trust in Him, this also requires surrender. It means that we’re willing to pray as the Savior prayed:

“Nevertheless not my will, but thine, be done.” (Luke 22:42)

When we trust in God we’re better able to say; “Even if your answer Father, is different from what I hoped for, I know that YOU are guiding me with perfect wisdom and love.” ❤️

Trust begins when faith becomes stronger than fear. We no longer let our fears bring us down but instead we let that TRUST grow within us to fill us with the belief in a loving and caring God.

I love this scripture in Mathew 6:26

Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?

The lord who feeds the birds will feed you physically, mentally and spiritually. He knows your needs before you ask and He is ready to provide for your life. TRUST HIM & SEE HIS MIRACLES. 💛

The miracle of trust is not always that our circumstances change immediately. Sometimes the miracle is that our hearts change. We find peace before the answer comes. We find strength before the trial ends. We find confidence that God is working, even when we cannot yet see how.

As we learn to trust Him, we begin to understand what the Lord taught:

“Be still, and know that I am God.” ♥️

(Psalm 46:10)

Trusting God means believing that His timing is right, His plan is good, and His love is constant, even when the path ahead is unclear.

Tonight in class we will do a meditation similar to this.

Take a slow, deep breath.

As you inhale, think:

“God is with me.”

As you exhale, think:

“I trust Him.”

Imagine placing your worries, fears, and unanswered questions into the Savior’s hands. Allow yourself to rest in the truth that He is aware of you and is leading you one step at a time.

Our physical goal this week is: To take a 10-minute walk each day and use that time to notice God’s hand in the beauty around you. 😍

Our Spiritual Goal: Each morning, identify one worry you are carrying and consciously give it to the Lord through prayer. Then ask yourself throughout the day:

“Am I believing in God, or am I trusting Him?” ♥️

I pray that this message will touch your heart and allow you feel that your TRUST is growing in God day by day. 💛 Love you all and I hope that you can make it to class tonight at 7pm not only my to release stress but also to strengthen our body, calm our mind and lift our spirit. 🥰 💛 See you there!

Love,

Lili 💖

We’ve all experienced moments when we feel uncomfortable by something we’re watching, or the things that we listen to. 🤦🏻‍♀️

I had an experience recently when I decided to watch a documentary. I thought this documentary would be interesting, but instead it turned dark very quickly. I instantly felt my soul tell me that this wasn’t good for my mind and spirit. So, I turned it off and I quickly closed my eyes and said a little prayer asking God to help me bring good things to my mind. I’m thankful that I was able to listen to that little voice and that I was able to take action in that moment. After praying, I instantly heard this scripture pop into my mind.

“The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light.”Matthew 6:22

I realized at that moment that what I allow to enter into my eyes absolutely has an influence in what I feel In my spirit. What I watch and listen to does matter and it does affect the amount of light or darkness that is within each one of us.

So, how important is it that we learn to listen to that little voice? That voice of the spirt which tells us what is good and what is not? And how important is it that each one of us learns to protect our eyes, ears and mind from the things of the world?

We live in a world filled with endless distractions, voices, opinions, influences etc, but the Savior’s words in Matthew 6:22 feel incredibly relevant to us today. Jesus teaches us that what we choose to focus on affects every part of our lives. The “eye” that Jesus is speaking about is more than our physical sight, it represents our attention, our desires, our thoughts, and what we allow to enter into our hearts. 💛

When our eyes are “single” to God, focused on truth, goodness, and Christ, our lives become filled with His light. His peace is able to replace our confusions, fears and challenges. When our eyes are “single” that means that we choose to focus on hope and allowing that hope to overcome our discouragements, we also focus on allowing out trust or faith in Him to become stronger than our fears. His light can replace any darkness that we may be experiencing.

Every day, we are making choices about what we allow into our minds and hearts. The books we read, the media we consume, the conversations we participate in, and even the thoughts we entertain, all shape who we are becoming. While the world often encourages us to fill our minds with noise, comparison, negativity, and endless distractions, Jesus Christ invites all of us to fill our hearts and minds with light.

If you have a chance to read Mathew 6: You may also notice that Jesus is speaking about the love of money. He invited us to build treasures in Heaven where moth and rust does not corrupt and where thieves won’t steal…He wants our focus to NOT be upon the love of money, or the material things of this world. He teaches us that where our heart is ❤️.. That is where our treasure will be also.

So, think for a moment about where your heart is? Are you centering your heart on material things? On money? On the things if this world? Or is your heart “single”, focused or centered on the things of God. On things that are eternal, that won’t be rusted or stolen…Think about where your true treasure lies. 💖

Theres another scripture that helps us to know what should focus on & it says;

“Whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report… think on these things.” (Philippians 4:8)

How amazing that Paul teaches us this, he doesn’t just tell us to just avoid darkness. Instead he’s invites us to ACTIVELY SEEK LIGHT! 💛 There is a difference. Our spiritual growth doesn’t come from avoiding harmful influences; it comes from intentionally looking for things that draw us closer to our Savior. The things that invite the light into our lives. ❤️🥰

When we spend time daily in God’s words, our minds become clearer. When we offer sincere prayers, our hearts become softer. When we choose gratitude instead of complaining, when we choose kindness over criticism, and faith over fear, we allow the Spirit of God to dwell within us. We’re better able to recognize the difference between the good and the bad and we’re better able to shield ourselves and protect ourselves with the true light of Christ that overpowers darkness.

That light that we bring does matter and it eventually tells us where our hearts and treasures truly lie.

One of the greatest spiritual disciplines we can gain is learning to guard and protect our hearts. ❤️

Proverbs 4:23 teaches:

“Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.”

Here are a few questions we can ask ourselves:

Does this create peace or anxiety?

Does this inspire faith or feed fear?

Does this bring me closer to Christ or farther away from Him?

Does this help me see others as God sees them?

Does this fill me with light?

We can recognize not every influence is obviously harmful, but not every influence is helpful either. As we choose to follow Christ, we are invited to be intentional about what we focus on and what we give our attention to. 💛

The more we fill our lives with God’s light, the easier it becomes to recognize darkness when it appears.🛡️ We can shield and protect ourselves by listening to that little voice and intentionally begin looking for the good and the light of God around us.

This week, our goal is to set aside five minutes each day to do a “Light Check.”

Find a quiet place and take several slow breaths.

Offer a prayer asking Heavenly Father to help you recognize His presence.

Read Matthew 6:22 slowly a few times.

Then close your eyes for a minute and think about these questions:

What has been occupying most of my thoughts lately?

What has brought light into my life this week?

What is one thing I may need to let go of that is distracting me from Christ?

Write down one blessing you have seen from God today.

End with gratitude, thanking the Lord for His guidance and light.

As we intentionally focus on Christ, we begin to notice His hand more clearly in our daily lives. We discover that His light has been present all along.

Jesus said:

“I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.” (John 8:12)

The Savior never promised a life without challenges, we will all have difficulties to overcome…but our Savior did promise that we would have His light. 🥹 We’re the ones who have to invite that light into our eyes, our ears, our mind and heart ❤️ 💪🏼 Each day we have the opportunity to bless our minds with uplifting messages our eyes to be filled with light and our hearts to be centered of the things that are above this world. 🌎 ⬆️

Christ invited us to rise above. To set our hearts and minds on eternal treasures rather than on money, lust or things that are unhealthy for our hearts, mind and soul. His truth still guides. His words are true. His love still heals. His grace still strengthens. & there’s nothing more beautiful than being able to experience God for yourself in your own life and in your own way.

So, let’s fix your eyes on Him, let’s allow our hearts to be protected and become steadier, our minds to be filled with light so that we may see clearer, and our lives to become brighter so that we can reflect the light of Christ for others to see.

Our physical goal for the week is

To spend at least 15 minutes each day outdoors without digital distractions. Go for a walk and notice God’s creations, breathe deeply, and allow your mind to rest from the constant noise of the world and instead feel your connection to God becoming stronger.

Our Spiritual Goal is to:

Begin and end each day by reading one scripture about light, hope, or faith. Pray for the ability to recognize what invites the Spirit into your life and what may be taking your focus away from Christ. Ask Heavenly Father to help you invite light into every hour of your day. 💛

As we choose to seek Him this week, I hope and pray that our eyes will be filled with His light, that our hearts will be covered by His peace, and that our lives may be filled with the joy that comes from walking closely with the Savior and having the light flowing constantly within us. 🥰💛🙏🏼

Hope that you can make it to class tonight at 7pm to strengthen ourselves physically, mentally and spiritually. 🥰 Class will be canceled next week. So, hopefully you can join us tonight and invite others to benefit as well. ❤️🙏🏼

Love you all and hope to see you there.

💖

Lili 🌺

Last week in class, I had a beautiful experience. I had come prepared to give a meditation in class that I thought would be fitting for that night. But as soon as I was about to start, I noticed that I couldn’t say the words that I had planned.

Instead, I noticed an image coming to my mind in which I saw clouds covering the sky above me. At that moment, the thought also came to me that those clouds are like our thoughts. I knew at that moment that God wanted me to share this image with the class and I was grateful for what He was allowing me to see. ☁️ I began describing what the image looked like. The sky was dark, clouds covering everything in my view and I asked the women in class to see those dark clouds as their negative thoughts and notice each one of them for a moment.

Have you noticed how many of your thoughts are negative? How many of those thoughts cover the sky of your mind daily and even hourly? All the comparisons, judgments, feelings of inadequacy, sadness, fears, unhappiness etc? Have you noticed how the world around us is constantly focused of pessimism on negativity, on darkness? 🙁 & Can you feel that world creeping into your mind, heart and thoughts constantly?

As humans we’re basically wired to focus on threats because bad things require our immediate attention and sadly, the negative thoughts stick to our minds more than the positive thoughts. That’s why we have to practice learning how to protect ourselves and check our thoughts a little more often. ✅❌

In the meditation I did in class last week, I asked them to notice the clouds, to see the negative thoughts and look a little beyond that to see the light behind the clouds peeking through. ⛅️ I asked them to focus on that light until the clouds of their minds began to clear completely and all they could see and feel was the sun! ☀️

I told them that the sun is the light of Christ! 💛 His light is able to penetrate any clouds of our mind. His light is able to touch every part of our lives if we allow it to do so. We can invite the light of Christ to bring His light to that very thought that we may be struggling with. To ask the Lord to help us to heal that thought and to help it go away so that we may focus on His light and Love instead. ❤️

Romans 12:2 says 2 Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is. His good, pleasing and perfect will.💛

Our amazing and powerful minds are given to us so that we may learn how to manage them, protect and nourish them. We do have the ability to control what we think about, and those thoughts affect all of the areas of our lives.

For example; notice how you feel when your thoughts are pessimistic and how that trickles to other areas of your life. Also, take a moment to notice the difference, when your thoughts are filled with light, the moments when you choose to TRUST GOD instead of believing the lies of the world. Think of the moments when you’ve been compassionate toward those who have hurt you, when you’ve felt peace and true joy and how those thoughts also affect you life, your energy and your surroundings. 🥰💛

This week I had a few opportunities to be in rooms filled with people, the thought ame to my mind as I looked around the room, that all of us have our own clouds we’re dealing with. 😔☁️ You may think someone is rude, when in reality the clouds of their minds are really just covering their mind during those moments. It doesn’t matter how wealthy we are, how beautiful, how powerful or popular we are…

There are people whose mental skies are covered in clouds of comparison, dissatisfaction, they’re focused on the negative and they’re unable to see past those clouds. 🙁 That’s when we need to remember to rise above our own clouds 🌤️and be compassionate toward others. Reach out in love and not judge the clouds they may be experiencing. As we learn to manage our own thoughts we’re able to reach out in love to others and help them with their own clouds as well. 💛

Today I would like to invite you to look for the light of the sun in the sky of your mind. ☀️ Clear the negative thoughts and focus instead on practicing and exercising your mind, heart and soul to focus instead on the light! Let the Lord become your teacher. Let Him help you let go of your negative thoughts and allow yourself to focus on seeing and feeling the light in your life more and more! 🤩 After all, this is your life and you get to choose what you want to focus on. 💪🏼🥰💛

Remember that your Father in Heaven gave you this mind for you to learn to manage it. He wants to remind you that light overcomes darkness. Light fills your heart with true joy and happiness. So, focus on the light! Focus in the good! Focus on Christ and notice how this will clear your mind and heart and allow you to live a happier more fulfilling life than anything else that the world can offer. 🥰 There’s nothing better than having a joyful and peaceful soul. & it all starts with your thoughts and what you guide your mind to focus on and to see. ❤️

There’s a beautiful scripture in Philippians 4:8

Which says; Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable, if anything is excellent or praiseworthy, think about such things.

Let’s make it our goal to think about what is good, loving, kind, pure. Let’s stop listening to all of the pessimism of the news and the world around us. Lets focus instead on the beauty that surrounds us. On the light of Christ and on the light that we can be to others. We can focus on helping our friends and families to clear the dark clouds of their minds as well. 🥰🌤️💛 God will see what’s in our heart and He will bless us for our efforts to focus on the good and notice the light more and more.

Our spiritual goal for the week is to; Focus on the sunshine no matter how dark the days, the thoughts or the circumstances may feel…Ask the Lord to help you see the light and He will be there to help you see it, feel it and transform you heart and mind. 🙏🏼💛

Our physical goal for the week is to bring light to our physical body as well by choosing good food and daily movement to help us feel recharged and energized. 💪🏼

Love you all and I hope that you can make it to class tonight to strengthen and renew yourself physically, mentally and spiritually. Last week we had a beautiful class! & I can’t wait to see how tonight will go! Hope that you can join us and fill yourself with a little more light today. 🥰🙏🏼☀️

Love,

Lili 🌸