We all have challenges and difficulties that we’re each experiencing and facing. Sometimes these challenges make our hearts feel heavy, weighed down and troubled. 💔 There may be times when we feel afraid, not knowing what will happen in the future with these difficulties that we’re facing.
This week I learned a beautiful lesson. I left my baby in a College out of state. I got on the airplane feeling my broken heart 💔 and I prayed and prayed asking God to please help me calm my aching, troubled and afraid heart. There was a child crying loudly behind me and kicking the back of my seat as I was praying. My first thought was, how is God even going hear me in this loud airplane? But I covered my ears, closed my eyes and kept praying.
As the plane went up and I started to see the little cars and houses, I thought to myself, “How is possible that God can hear the prayers of all of those people down there?!?” We rose above the clouds and I instantly felt this energy hit my heart and mind telling me that HE hears my prayers. ❤️I feel Him strongly speak to my heart and the first thing I heard is that He is the creator of the clouds, the mountains, the animals, all living things and every single person is known and loved by Him.
Then I heard these words be spoken to my heart, mind and soul saying “I AM RIGHT HERE WITH YOU” ♥️ it’s as if I felt Jesus Christ truly sitting in my pain with me. Right there next to me. He understood exactly how I was feeling and I was not alone. 💛 It’s hard to describe how my chest felt like it was going to burst 💥 when I felt God tell me that. At that moment I thanked Him for being here with me and I cried even more😭 But this time my tears were TRANSFORMED from sadness, fear and my troubled heart to a feeling of gratitude to a God who heard my prayers and CALMED MY FEARS AND MY TROUBLED HEART. 🤍
I no longer felt what I had been feeling. I began to feel lighter, peaceful, calm and I knew that ALL WILL BE OK. ❤️ Jesus Christ was in that airplane with me. Thousands of feet above the ground with crying and kicking behind me and yet, He calmed my troubled heart. I also felt Him tell speak to my mind and heart that He has plan for my baby and for me. He has a plan for each one of us. And this scripture came clearly into my mind “ Jeremiah 29:11 “For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.”
At that moment I knew that I could let go of my fears and my worries and just TRUST HIM and trust in the plan that the Lord has for my life. I also felt this scripture come to my mind. John 14:27
“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.”
I hope that regardless of what you’re going through in your life, that you’ll know that you can always pray. That no matter where you are, on the ground, or in an airplane in the sky 🤷🏻♀️…Jesus Christ can be right here with you in your moment of pain. ♥️ He can comfort you, He can transform your tears and broken your heart into a heart that is filled with light, love trust and peace. 💛
Like the airplane, we can choose to rise above our troubles. 🌤️ To go above the dark clouds of our lives and to look for the sunshine of Jesus Christ. We can ask Him to be with us, to help us and to transform our hearts and minds. In Christ we can find peace even if our circumstances don’t change. What matters is how we feel and the strength and help that we can receive from a God who knows the plans that He has for each one of us. 💖
Our physical goal this week is to move our bodies and feel gratitude for having the gift of our bodies.
Our spiritual goal is to work on not letting our hearts be troubled neither letting them be afraid. Instead, our goal this week is to choose peace and
to be of good cheer.
Hope to see you tonight at 7pm to release stress and to strengthen ourselves physically, mentally and spiritually. Don’t forget that class will be only from 7-8. So, we will do our best to have fun, release stress, strengthen ourselves and have a little meditation to leave us feeling uplifted with a peaceful heart. 💛
With everything going on in our world, and the different challenges that we all face, It’s easy to allow the chaos of it all to increase and cause greater emotional stress, fear and anxiety.
We see that not only is our peace constantly being affected, but new research has also shown that our levels of addictions or the ways in which we choose to numb our emotions is also increasing. Have you noticed that the world as a whole is having a harder time controlling their feelings, thoughts and emotions? People can’t seem to control themselves. Sadly, we’re becoming a society that’s more disconnected, divided and addicted. Numbing our emotional stress with outside sources and completely forgetting how to stop, breathe and silence our minds and hearts.
Think about what we tend to resort to “to help us feel better,” we often times reach for food, our phones, TV, entertainment, shopping, posting on social media in search for compliments or validation, we reach for substances, gossiping and many other activities that seem harmless at first. But, but little by little become the ways in which we buffer our emotions. These types of activities tie us down to being controlled by them. We loose our ability to genuinely regulate our inner peace, based on the power that we have and our ability to ask God to help us.
When we can acknowledge the ways in which we’re becoming more dependent on outside sources to bring us inner peace, we can take a good look at those things and start to work on them. Most of the time we don’t even realize how much we’re allowing those things to control our emotional state. Or how we’re “numbing the discomforts” of life, which little by little begin to dim our inner peace more and more. Remember that the world, and the enemy of your soul will always push for you to become dependent on outside sources. So that you may become a “slave” to those things. The enemy will even lie to you and tell you that it’s too uncomfortable to sit with your feelings. That you can’t look within yourself etc…But that’s how he ties us to more material things and keeps us away from God. The enemy knows that if he can keep us distracted, unable to process our feelings and definitely doing everything in his power to prevent us from speaking or communicating with God. Then, that’s how he wins. Making us miserable like himself.
God, our Father in Heaven, on the other hand wants us to be able to rise above that. To CHOOSE FOR OURSELVES to turn to God for the help we need. He wants us to create within ourselves that strong desire that we may know that WE ARE HIS CHILDREN. & that as such, WE HAVE ACCESS TO DIVINE POWER, LIGHT AND GREATER PEACE. He wants us to know that we don’t need to depend on anything material or of this world to bring us the peace that we seek. But to know instead, that God is the giver of our peace. That He can provide that peace abundantly even admits the storms of life. So that when the rains come and the waters rise during our storms, we may be able to know in whom we trust and remain peaceful and faithful.
This week I want to motivate you and encourage you to push past the discomfort & take a deeper look within yourself. Remember that this will most likely not feel very comfortable at first, and you may be tempted to grab your phone or turn on the TV, or call a friend to gossip or whatever else you try to do to get out of fully sitting for a moment and just feeling your feelings and emotions.
The goal is to practice when you’re triggered by something, 💛 to just take a moment to close your eyes, cover your ears, breathe and feel within yourself what’s going on. Take a moment to see your feelings and thoughts clearly. If it’s possible, see them from a distance so that they’re not fully “ thoughts that are attached to you.” But then, take a moment to invite divine light and ask God to be with you. To give you His LOVE, His STRENGTH, and His PEACE to remove those feelings. Then allow yourself to FEEL THAT AMAZING POWER FLOWING FROM GOD INTO YOUR HEART, MIND AND SOUL. Remember that nothing in the world can compare to that feeling of knowing that something comes directly from God to you. ❤️ & If you’d like to record your feelings or write down any wisdom that God places in your heart. Then, that will be a blessing to you as you go and act in what He tells you. The more willing you are to receiving, the more you’ll gain.
Also, take a moment if you can to acknowledge the things that you honestly know that you use to “numb” your emotional discomfort. Think about what comes up for you. Ask yourself what are some of the things that steal my peace? Think about what you do when you’re angry or stressed. Do you reach for your phone or food or something else when you’re uncomfortable or stressed out? Do those things bring you lasting peace? Or how do they leave you feeling afterwards? These are all questions that we rarely ask ourselves. But it’s important that we get to know ourselves in this life and the WE BECOME OUR OWN BEST FRIEND! OUR OWN BEST CHEERLEADER AND OUR OWN PROTECTOR OF OUR PEACE. When we can notice and recognize what happens internally, we will be better able to PRACTICE inviting more of the good to be with us and it will become easier to reject the negativity and all that is bad for our minds, hearts and souls.
So, take a moment to practice breathing, to check on your emotions and to change them for the better. Give yourself love, compassion and be proud of your ability to look inward without the need of outside sources to allow you to check in with yourself. To feel the emotions, to reach to God who is the true giver of lasting peace and allow Him to help you clear the internal chaos & RETURN TO PEACE OFTEN.💛
Set a goal for yourself this week that you will be your inner peace keeper. Try to allow the quiet moments you have to connect to that higher source of peace and love which comes from God. Ask Him to help you focus on your internal light and peace instead of what the world wants you to focus on. Find strength in your ability to practice this & notice how it will change everything for you and the way in which you view yourself and your ability to retain your peace. As you practice this skill, it will increase your inner power day by day. You’ve got this! The choice is yours.
Remember that God invites each of us to fully place our trust on HIM. He is the prince of peace, who invites our souls to receive true, long lasting and eternal peace.
John 14:27 Says: “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.”❤️
God wants us to rely on Him so that we may not be troubled or afraid. Whatever is troubling you today, Whatever is bringing you fear or frustration….Take a moment to sit with those feelings and if possible view them from a distance. Recognizing each emotion and how it presents in your body. For example; “This is anger, my chest or throat feel tight..etc” “I want to release this emotion and allow myself to come to peace & calm” Invite peace to be with you. Breathe into those areas of stress until fully calm.
Remember also to allow yourself to speak to God as you release those feelings and allow Him to take them from you. He will remove those emotions and replace your thoughts with what a loving God would tell you. Allowing yourself to invite His peace and love to renew you and to recharge your heart and soul is the most amazing therapy that you can give to yourself. So, trust Him. He is the king of peace, the giver of all that is good. The creator of Love and light. There’s nothing greater on this earth than being able to experience the peace that can only come from a loving God. He will strengthen you, help you and lift you every single day and hour of your life. ❤️ I pray that you’ll be able to feel His peace and allow yourself to be the KEEPER AND THE PROTECTOR OF YOUR PEACE.
This is our Spiritual goal this week is: To gain greater inner peace. 💪🏼💛 To be the KEEPER OF OUR PEACE! The PROTECTOR or our peace who doesn’t depend on material things to help us feel better. But instead that we may have the wisdom to know where true peace comes from. To lean on our ability to invite silence and inner peace to this very moment. Saying to ourselves “ I choose this hour to keep my peace centered on a God who sees me, who hears me, who loves me and who wants to help me. I am the protector of my inner peace and I choose light, love and peace to be with me surround me on this day.” ❤️
Our Physical goals is to exercise at least 2-3 times this week and to give our body more water and healthy nutrient rich foods. ❤️
Class is canceled tonight. But we will see each other again next week. Love you all and do your best to take care of yourself physically, mentally and spiritually. 💖
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. ♥️🥰🙏🏼
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. 💪🏼🥰💛
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. 🥰
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. 🥰💖
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. 🥰❤️🙏🏼
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. 💛🥹
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. ❤️
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!
