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Defining Moments
Posted by: | CommentsThis was a week of defining moments, not only for me personally, but collectively.
Defining moments come suddenly, unexpectedly. They divert the course you were on. They require attention, awareness, and reflection.
And they demand change.
I won’t get into all the personal defining moments, except to say that they were several, and some were pleasant, some not at all pleasant. I share a couple of them below.
Both the collective and personal defining moments sparked tremendous grief. And, also, oddly, a sense of hope.
As you might have guessed, the collective grief I refer to has to do with the assassination of Charlie Kirk, whom I didn’t follow much but am familiar with.
From those who knew him, even if they disagreed with him, you get the picture of someone who spoke about faith, conservative values, and whose passion was that there would be vigorous debate and freedom of speech.
He was committed to encouraging a generation of young people to really think, and he was respectful and courteous to those he disagreed with. In fact, he told those who disagreed with him to get to the head of the line to interact with him on his campus debate tours.
When I first heard the news of the shooting on Wednesday, the first words that came to me were, “And so it begins.” I do not know where that came from or what it means.
I also remembered the parable found in the Gospel of John (John 12:24), where Jesus explains that “unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit.”
When I saw the video Charlie Kirk’s widow, Erika, released just two days after his murder, I was moved to tears and wondered if—and prayed that—this seemingly senseless death would be the seed from which God would bring some good. “Much fruit.”
One of the sources of grief is not only the fact that a talented, good man and father of two young children was gunned down in cold blood, but the media insinuations by some that “he had it coming.”
To anyone who feels that way, I would ask, as Charlie might, “Where is that coming from? Did you actually view any of the videos of his interactions with those who disagreed with him? Or are you going by what people said about him?”
Whenever I hear someone being vilified, I always go back to the source and look at/listen to what the person actually said. Often words are taken out of context and spun along the lines of a person’s ideology. When they are spun with hate mixed in, I immediately know it’s evil.
I was grieving over all this as I drove to my dentist’s office, who graciously agreed to see me for a very strange dental emergency that arose last night. Suddenly in the car, I felt the presence of Jesus. His presence brought a peace I rarely ever feel, not even in prayer or church.
I asked him, “Why are you so peaceful? Here I am, feeling so sorrowful, and you come with peace?”
I felt him smile gently and confidently, and say, “I’m peaceful because I know what I’ve done [I knew he was referring to the cross and his resurrection], and what I am doing.”
He added, “And I give you my peace.” (See John 14:17.)
One of the other personal defining moments from this week was a therapy session in which I learned how to hold both the troubling emotions and the strengthening emotions and truths together.
Both the grief and the hope are true and valid. We need to hold them together, because that’s the world we live in. There is evil, and we need to face that.
There is also hope.
My hope is in what Jesus told me today: that he conquered sin (evil) on the cross, and that he is now in the process of undoing that evil as he spreads his light in this world, largely through the believers in which he lives by the Holy Spirit, to “expose and thwart evil, reveal truth, and guide our feet in the paths of peace.”
You and I can be part of that light. Jesus said we who follow him are the light of the world. Charlie Kirk unabashedly shone that light brightly. He knew there could be a terrible cost. He pressed on anyway.
We too can and must be—must be—lights that push back the darkness.
That is why every single day I pray the prayer below that every week I include in my Healing Heart Issues Digest newsletter.
I hope you will too.
Let this be the defining moment when we each commit to the true Light, and to being clear reflections of that Light.
The Day I Opened The Door To Love
Posted by: | CommentsToday, August 2, is my spiritual birthday. The day I was born into a new family, a new life. And Love.
Every year, God reminds me of the exact date. I would forget otherwise. It wasn’t important to anyone else.
But Jesus reminds me it’s very important to Him.
So, it was 50-plus years ago, on a steamy August night, apparently on the 2nd, that I was feeling very low. I was 15 years old. Depressed, I now realize. All this confusion, all this loneliness, all these feelings, no one to talk to, no one who understood.
I tried talking to my older brother. What a desperate move that was. He was the last person in the world who would understand his highly sensitive sister. He was just as practiced as I was in suppressing feelings. I don’t think I ever had an important conversation with him in my life, then or after.
I don’t remember what was going on with my friends, but there was a feeling of being forsaken. I didn’t know what to do with myself.
So I walked up the street and sat on the curb in the steamy Connecticut night. Just sat there.
And then something happened. Suddenly I thought about Jesus.
I had a friend at that time, dear Debbie Drury (now Nelson), who was always telling me about Jesus. I thought she was a freak. But to be quite honest, she had a joy I ached for. Though I ridiculed her, and even ripped up one of those “God has a wonderful plan for your life” tracts in front of her, deep down I wished I had that joy.
Sitting on that curb on that lonely night, I remembered a dream I’d had.
In the dream I was with my family, camping. It was night, and I was lost in the woods. I wandered around until I saw a wooden bench, and a light, like a street light, in a clearing. (How symbolic dreams are!) Someone was sitting on the bench. A man.
Somehow I felt he was safe. He beckoned to me to sit beside him, and asked what was on my mind. I found myself pouring out my heart to him.
He listened, nodding, seeming as if he totally understood me. Then he got up, I got up, and he hugged me.
Oh, the peace I felt in that embrace! Oh, my, I’ve never felt such peace since, except for another similar dream I had decades later.
I longed for that peace. I searched for that peace since the dream. I knew it would only come from a relationship. In my teenage immature foolishness, I thought it would come from a boyfriend or husband someday.
But sitting on that curb that August 2 night, it suddenly all came together. The relationship I ached for was with the Lord of Life and Love, and He was waiting for me. He was there, sitting on the curb next to me, as He was in the dream on that wooden bench in the woods.
And I understood it all, all that Debbie had told me, and I opened the door of my heart, and asked Him in.
Life has never been the same since.
Oh, I’m still healing from my childhood traumas. But I have to tell you: God has been healing me all along, at a pace He knows is doable for me.
I’ve written before about how, when you hit the 60s or even before, the strategies you’ve used to cope seem to suddenly stop working. Perhaps that’s because by then, you may have accumulated enough resilience to face those traumas you’ve pushed down all your life.
So for the past several years, God has gently led me to understand more and more about the traumas of my early life, the patterns that served well then but are a detriment now, and what to do about them.
He had led me to The Healing Codes at just the right time. Those prior years of healing helped me when I had to settle my mother’s estate and Pandora’s box was opened. The family dynamics were so clear.
Against that backdrop, the hand of grace that had led me in different directions stood out in bold relief.
Grace had enabled me to make different choices than other family members. My life looks drastically different than it would have had I not opened the door to Love all those decades ago. You have only to look at my other family members’ lives, who did not turn to grace but followed the predictable paths of unhealed trauma results, to know that “’twas grace that led me safe thus far, and grace will lead me home.”
I want to honor that grace, and to witness to the One who asked me to write this, the One relationship that has always been the model of what relationships can and should be.
Because of Him, I was able to marry a good man with whom I’ve lived for 45 years; rear two wonderful children who, despite the deficits of our parenting, are leading happy, stable, productive lives.
I’m part of a few wonderful communities, I’ve had a fulfilling career with different twists and turns, and now I’m in my wisdom years, facing a new journey with its unique challenges.
I know I’m not alone on that path, and that makes all the difference.
“Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and dine with him, and he with Me” (Revelation 3:20).
Have you heard His knock? Have you ever opened the door? Are you dining with him every day?
If you have, and you would like to deepen that relationship with Immanuel, I invite you to check out the Immanuel Connection call. We meet on the first Tuesday of the month, virtually, at 11:30 a.m. Central time. If that time doesn’t suit you, email me (diane at healingcodescoaching.com) and we’ll see what we can do. There is a recording, but the live call is really where the action is.
Is Feeling Inadequate Something to Heal?
Posted by: | CommentsI was talking to a client this week who confessed that she felt inadequate.
As we probed the issue, it became clear this was a case of “imposter syndrome.” (Which nearly everyone I know has felt at some time or another.) She was being asked to do something for which she felt inadequate, like she would be faking it. But, is feeling inadequate really a bad thing?
Because my client is committed to following God, we explored what Scripture might say about “inadequacy.” It just so happened that that morning, I had read in my 2-year daily Bible in Exodus about God calling Moses to lead His people out of bondage in Egypt. We went over the story.
Moses balked at this call. He hemmed and hawed. “Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh and bring the Israelites out of Egypt?”
God’s answer: “I will be with you.”
Moses: “And what shall I say to the elders if they don’t believe me. Who shall I tell them sent me?”
God: “Tell them I AM WHO I AM. I AM has sent me to you.”
Then God laid out the whole plan: more about who He is, what Moses should do and say, what will happen.
Moses had more “what if?” questions. And excuses.
“I never could speak well, God.”
God’s answer: “Who gave human beings their mouths?”
Finally Moses blurted out, “Please send someone else.”
God was angry at Moses’ lack of trust, but He graciously promised He would have Moses’ brother Aaron speak for him.
Finally, armed with God’s words of promise and assurance, God’s plan clearly laid out, and the staff that would validate his mission, Moses obeys. The rest, of course, is history. (See Exodus 3-4.)
Paul the Apostle had some kind of affliction for which he implored God three times to remove. God did not. Instead, He told Paul, “My grace is sufficient for you, for My power is perfected in weakness.”
Paul learned a secret: “Therefore I will boast all the more gladly in my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest on me. That is why, for the sake of Christ, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.” (2 Corinthians 12:9-10)
Why is he strong when he is weak? Because then he is totally dependent on God. The more dependent he is, the more he gives God room to manifest His power.
Feeling inadequate drives us to depend on God. And that is exactly where He always wants us to be—all the time.
So is it something to heal? Only if you’re sure He wants you to do something, and your sense of inadequacy is getting in the way–essentially, it’s a lie you’re believing when the truth is, “In myself I’m inadequate, but God has called me to this, and I trust He will enable me.” Then you can heal all the times feeling inadequate led you to fear and not trust.
My client continues to pray for clear guidance, because sometimes God may be saying, “You feel inadequate, but I am calling you to this and I will equip you for it,” as He did with Moses and Paul.
But also, sometimes Satan, and/or our own pride, tempts us to think we can handle something that God does not intend for us. So there are no clear cut, cookie-cutter answers.
As always, it comes down to hearing from God, and feeling that sense of His leading in your spirit. This is where practicing comes in: the more you learn to hear God’s voice, to get to know it, and the more you obey His leading, the more commonplace hearing from him will be for you.
If you would like to grow into such a connection, or if you have something you really want to hear from God about, I invite you to attend an Immanuel Connection call. Find out more here.
Should We Look For Truth Inside Or Outside Of Us?
Posted by: | CommentsIt’s popular in many “spiritual” circles to poo-poo the idea that we can look for the truest answers outside of us.
Many even look down on people who look to, say, religion for “answers” to the big questions in life. The places some look to outside themselves are seen as a crutch. “The answers lie within,” they insist. “Reality is what we perceive it to be.”
(This can be backed up, to some extent, by quantum physics. Because our perception actually changes the thing perceived, they can say that there is no “objective reality,” as everything is a matter of perception. Unless, of course, there is an objective reality outside of perception.)
These spiritual people may even use scripture to back it up, quoting Jesus as saying, “the kingdom of God is within you” (Luke 17:21). (This is a misquote, by the way. More on that below.)
Others (often of a religious stripe, of course), insist that one can’t trust one’s “inner knowing”; human beings have a “sinful” nature, and can’t trust it. They too cite scripture: “The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?” (Jeremiah 17:9).
This is an important issue for anyone who truly wants to live out their spirituality authentically.
So where do we turn for truth? How can we know truth?
Here’s my take on it.
As usual, posing this as an either/or option is not accurate. (Either/or thinking seldom is; it’s usually a sign of dysfunctional thinking.) It’s a matter, in my opinion, of order.
Some don’t believe there is such a thing as absolute truth. I do. There is an objective reality which we call God, who exists above and beyond us, and above and beyond human perception. This “God Most High” made the world, and continues to sustain it. This God revealed himself in the Bible, a revelation of truth that could not otherwise be known apart from the revelation.
Since this God made us and everything else, he knows exactly how things work. So it is pure wisdom to look to the revelation of Truth to pattern our lives around.
What Jesus actually said in Luke 17:21 is “The kingdom of God is among you [or in your midst].” This is posited as the more accurate translation, and it refers to Jesus himself. He also called himself “the Way, the Truth, and the Life.” So we look to Jesus, a being apart from us, for Truth and Life.
Yet that’s not the end. Because there is an inner knowing to be had. Some people live just in their heads, thinking that just believing the truth intellectually is enough.
It is not.
The truth—i.e. Jesus who claimed to be the Truth—must be welcomed inward, into the heart. This Truth is meant to be experienced, not just intellectually believed.
And we can only experience it through connection. That is the “subjective” part. It is experienced only in relationship to the One who is above and beyond us.
In that sense, the Truth, the Kingdom of God, Reality, is within us. We can have an inner knowing from a heart that is being purified through its connection and relationship to this Truth who is a Person. This Person can guide us, comfort us, strengthen us, give us peace.
This Person can take Truth and show us, through the indwelling Holy Spirit of Jesus, how it applies to our particular life, our particular situation.
It is the connection between outer an inner reality where the balance—and the magic—lie.
This is why we can trust our Heart, that inner knowing that comes when we are Connected to the Truth. Our hearts are being renovated, and we can now live from that renovated heart that Jesus gives us.
This is why in my Align with Your Divine Design program, the foundational module is the Connection piece of the CHRIA Cycle of Transformation. (CHRIA = Connect-Heal-Release-Infuse-Activate.) We heal the blocks to that connection, and learn several ways to Connect and deepen the relationship with Immanuel, the God who is with us.
THAT is the abundant life Jesus promised in John 10:10.
I share all this because it’s my passion that everyone experience this abundant life that I know, that lifts me above the very real and difficult circumstances I’m facing now. I’d be lost without my Connection to Immanuel.
As indeed, we all are.
If you would like to develop your connection to Immanuel, I encourage you to check out my Immanuel Connection calls. I will facilitate that connection and you will receive the recording to go back to. It is one of the practices that has healed and sustained me the most. Learn more here.
What Lies Are You Believing?
Posted by: | CommentsEveryone believes lies.
It’s endemic to current human nature. In the Judaeo-Christian worldview, it started with Adam and Eve, the first humans, when they were tempted in the Garden of Eden and believed Satan’s lie. Ever since, we’ve believed lies, to our own (and often others’) destruction.
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The sad thing is, many of the lies we’re believing—about ourselves, God, other people, the world—actually formed when we were very young, even before the age of 6, psychologists tell us.
Something happens to us, we interpret it in some (negative) way, often erroneously because after all, we were too young to know much or to reason, and we believe the interpretation.
Often for the rest of our lives.
Example: let’s say you were punished for something as a child, and you didn’t understand what it was that you did wrong. Perhaps you had an emotionally unstable parent who would punish you at a whim, so that sometimes you were punished and sometimes not for the same behavior. Little 4-year-old you might easily have come to believe that you were just a bad person and deserving of punishment, at any time. That is the “truth” that your heart comes to believe, the “truth” that rules you unconsciously.
What would this lead to? Fear, anxiety, being as “good” a child as you can be so as to not to invoke the wrath of adults.
I have had many clients who wrestle with just this scenario.
Now, adult you may not realize what it going on. All you know is that you push yourself, you try very hard to fit in, and somehow it’s not working too well. You have digestive issues, perhaps, or struggle with depression.
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The healing comes, always, when the lie is exposed to the light, seen for what it is, and the Truth comes to replace the lie at a deep level.
I believe the power of The Healing Codes lies in uncovering the lies that we’ve come to believe, along with the attached emotions and memories, and replacing it with the Truth.
How do we find out what lies we’re really believing, since it’s often so hidden from our view?
Here are two of the most effective ways I’ve found.
With The Healing Codes, we look for whatever issue is disturbing your peace currently. Maybe it’s a health issue, or a relationship issue, or something going wrong in your career.
Once you identify the issue, you look at how you feel about having that issue. Does it make you feel sad, angry, depressed? Where are those feelings in your body? As you tune in to your body, allow yourself to ask, When have I ever had this same sensation before?
We go with the physical sensation because that is the best way to trigger a memory. Sometimes the original memory, from which we formed the lie we believe subconsciously, comes from preverbal times. If this is the case, you might have a sense that it was from when you were very little, even if you have no specific memory.
Once you have a sense of a memory (and sometimes, you have no clear sense of a memory—that’s OK), you can focus on the thoughts around either the memory or your current issue. This moves you further toward identifying the lie you may be believing.
Challenge the belief, without judging it. You can gently ask yourself, Is that really true? Am I really a bad person because I spilled milk all over the floor and broke my mother’s favorite glass when I was four years old? Did she really have to spank me so hard for that?
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It may be uncomfortable to see your parent in a different light than you always have, but try to accept the discomfort. Let your adult self bring some compassion to Little Wrong You. If you are so inclined, you might pray for God to show you the Truth, or even the lie you’ve been believing if you need help identifying that.
When you do your Healing Code, put in the prayer of intention the feelings, beliefs, and memories you want to heal. Then, when you point to the healing centers for your Code, remind yourself of the Truth. Let yourself feel compassion toward Little You. The Healing Code helps the energy transfer from negative to positive as you “infuse” the Truth each time you do your Healing Code.
Another way to find and heal the lies your heart is believing is to participate in an Immanuel Connection call. I guide you to a positive encounter with Immanuel (“God with us,” another name for Jesus), and ask him what lie you are believing and what the truth is. Then I give you a custom Healing Code to address the lie and infuse the Truth.
If this interests you, go here to find out more and sign up. The calls are held on the first Tuesday of the month, at 11:30 a.m. Central Time. (October call will be on October 8, though.)
The Immanuel Connection will not only help you heal faster (another name for Jesus is “Wonderful Counselor”), it will deepen your relationship with him. It is one of the foundations of my spiritual life, and that of many others. I am the only one on the planet who combines Immanuel Prayer with a custom Healing Code—at the beginning of the call to remove any blocks to receiving all Jesus has for you, and then at the end, to energetically change the lies to truth with a custom Healing Code.
I love the way one person describes it: “God replacing the pictures in the art gallery of our minds, removing pictures that do not have Jesus in them and replacing them with pictures that do.”
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Go here to download the specifics, and I hope you will join me on the next call!
The Power of Being Witnessed
Posted by: | CommentsI was very moved this morning when I read a passage in the Gospel of Luke. To me, it was a powerful demonstration of the importance of being witnessed in the healing journey.
The context: Jesus was on his way to heal the only daughter of Jairus, the local synagogue leader. The girl was near death, and I’m sure the father was desperate for Jesus to get there as soon as possible.
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The crowd jostled Jesus as he moved along. Among them was a woman who had been hemorrhaging for twelve years. She’d spent all her money on doctors, none of whom had helped her. She was desperate for Jesus to heal her. She believed if only she could touch the hem of his garment, she would be healed.
She crept up next to him, and did exactly that. Instantly she felt in her body that she was healed.
Jesus felt it too. He felt healing energy flow from him. He asked, “Who touched me?”
Peter reminded him that all kinds of people were pressing in on him. Jesus insisted, “Someone did touch me, for I was aware that power had left me.” (Those skeptical of energy healing, take note!)
The woman, realizing she couldn’t hide any longer, came forth trembling and fell down before Him. She admitted in the presence of all the people the reason she had touched Him, and how she had been immediately healed. Read More→
How Can You Feel Safe in an Unsafe World?
Posted by: | CommentsRecently two things happened that triggered my nervous system into feeling unsafe. One was on the communal level, the other more personal.
Here’s what God did for me. Maybe it will help you feel a little more safe too.
On the communal level, I heard the news that the FBI issued a public safety warning for the holidays. Nothing specific, just that that FBI Director Christopher Wray sees “blinking red [warning] lights everywhere.” He says not to panic, but to be vigilant.
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Great. Hyper-vigilance is something I’m working on healing! In trying to heal trauma from my childhood (and beyond), I’ve worked hard on feeling safe. How can one feel safe in a world where the Director of the FBI is saying that “I’ve never seen a time when so many of the threats are all elevated, all at exactly the same time”?
To top it off, I received a letter from my state representative about safety concerns. We’ve never gotten a letter like that before. It makes you wonder what “they” (the FBI, the government officials) know that we don’t.
On a personal level, a past toxic situation and relationship that I thought was squarely in the past suddenly crashed again into my life.
I want to tell you how being able to connect with God brought great comfort and strength and sucked the stress right out of both situations.
After I got the sudden text and phone message, I related it to my children. My son wisely said, “Ignore it until X happens. Don’t give it any mental bandwidth.”
Good advice, except that my nervous system didn’t get it.
I told a couple of close friends who were familiar with the history of my situation, and they prayed for me.
I prayed too, of course. And what I got was a vision of sorts, a meditation God gave me to dwell on.
(When I say “vision,” I mean an impression on my spirit that is somewhat visual. It’s “seeing with the eyes of my heart.” That is how I often receive messages from God.)
The first part was simply of a castle or fortress, with a moat all around it. The mote was water with fire on top of it.
No fire here, but the castle is like in my vision, only higher up.
The next day, in my dialogue with God in my Morning Pages journal, the image was added to: I was taken up by angels into the castle (there was no way to get there otherwise, what with the water and fire). I was transported to an area of the castle where I was to stay, “while your special rooms were being prepared.” That “place” I understood would be perfectly designed for who I am.
In the meantime, however, I would have to live in more “public” places, perhaps not so perfectly designed for me, but livable. (I’ve had a lot of dreams lately about being in public places. As an Introvert and Highly Sensitive Person, I’m often wearied by a lot of ”public” obligations. This vision put those dreams and feelings in context.)
I was content to live in the more public places because I knew now they were temporary. A perfect place was being prepared for me (see John 14), and though the meantime was less than perfect, it was fine for now.
This “vision” comforts me.
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First of all, it signals safety to my nervous system in a way that my body could receive better than just trying to put something out of my mind. (It will still live in the nervous system anyway.) What the nervous system needs is not words or reasoning, but a new “picture in the heart.” The body’s language is nonverbal. The “survival brain” runs on pictures in the heart.
That new picture of safety is what the vision is giving me. I felt safe in that castle surrounded by the moat that you could only cross via air, spiritually (i.e. the angels carrying me over). The water and fire to me signify baptism (water and the Holy Spirit), recalling a sermon I heard recently about how we can go back to the fact of our baptism to remind us that “we are sealed by the Holy Spirit and belong to God forever.”
Knowing that I had to put up with living in the public spaces because a special place was being prepared for me helped me to feel like I could cope with the obligations that sometimes can seem so onerous to me.
I don’t know if that picture speaks to you or not. You can always pray for your own picture of safety.
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The Bible is full of images of safety. The Psalms in particular offer many images of safety (e.g. Psalm 18, where God is pictured as a rock, a refuge).
Indeed, my vision is based on the verse that the name of the Lord is a “fortress” to which we can run and be safe (Proverbs 18:10). Only in my case, I had to be flown over the moat by an angel!
(This, by the way, is how you know if something is truly from God: It needs to square with Scripture in some way. I’ve been reading through the Bible every two years since 2004, so my “pool” is well-stocked with things God can draw from.)
God had given me another precious picture of safety in an Immanuel Prayer experience, after a tragedy that rocked my world. I did a video on that. I called it “King Jesus Faces Down Evil.” I often return to that as well.
This world as it is is not always safe. If we’ve had trauma in our lives (and most of us have, of one sort or another, as Dr. Gabor Maté points out in his newest book, The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture), then we can be prone to being easily triggered into anxiety.
If we can address that anxiety by feeding the “survival brain” new images (among other approaches), it can help us be resilient, hopeful, healthily vigilant, and resourceful, adequate to meet the challenges of world that is not always safe or healthy.
Some other verses that calm my nervous system:
- “In this world you will have tribulation, but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.” (Words of Jesus in John 16:33)
- The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness have never overcome it (John 1:5).
- “Behold, I am making all things new.” (Some of Jesus’ last recorded words, in Revelation 21:5.)
- Zechariah’s prophecy about the baby Jesus:
“And you, child, will be called the prophet of the Most High;
for you will go before the Lord to prepare his ways,
to give knowledge of salvation to his people
in the forgiveness of their sins,
because of the tender mercy of our God,
whereby the sunrise shall visit us from on high
to give light to those who sit in darkness and in the shadow of death,
to guide our feet into the way of peace.” (Luke 1: 76-79)
If you would like to grow in your ability to hear from God, I invite you to check out my Align with Your Divine Design program. In Module 2, Connect, I teach you four ways to learn how to hear the voice of God. This is the foundation of the whole program. There’s nothing like being able to experience God. In fact, Richard Rohr has said, “An experience of God is necessary for mental and emotional health.” I totally agree!
