I sometimes talk a walk and get lost in my thoughts for an hour or two in a quiet place, and my, oh my, does it rejuvenate my soul. Being alone with myself has become a relaxing practice of self nurturing. The opposite : places like malls, shopping areas or crowded busy-ways tend to make me more wound up, so its critical I take some time for yourself and relax in a place that makes me feel like I am are hiding out in a secret place no one else knows about.
There are several things that help us to maintain a sense of peace and quiet in our souls. Usually it has to be someone with whom you can "be" yourself. If you desire to be calm and quiet, or you desire to be still sometimes a certain specialness will enter into your space. For me, it's word-power. I will just hear words. Maybe , because I am a writer, and maybe not. Maybe because the Spirit just speaks when I am still.
Well, one day when sitting still I heard this: "brace yourself."
God began to build and altar in my life, and together, we began to climb it.
Now, even though this word came to me several months ago (early in 2012), I have contemplated it - over the past few weeks of this summer. I had some really surprising news come to me this summer of 2012, and it was very unexpected. Although it was good, news; it was very surprising. Had I not been still and in a quiet place, and contemplating continually this year, I probably would not have been able to believe the news could be possible! I really had to brace myself, in order to receive it.
So it appears even "g ood news " can rock your world and have you riveting from shock. I cannot say what the blessing was, because it has not completely unfolded and i don't want to spoil it. But I promise I will come back and tell you once it unfolds.
Have you ever heard of the law of attraction ? Its the notion that if you speak enough positive in your life, you will eventually attract the things in your life that are positive and will make you happy. It also surmises that if you speak enough negativity in your life, so also will you reap negativity. Well, I am a witness, I have spoken literal miracles in my life, and they have manifested. They may not have turned out exactly as I spoke them, but the fact i spoke positive, and positive occurred, far outweighed the likelihood of negative happening. So, recently, I looked up the word "brace" and I want to share with you what I found.
Here are a few things that redefined my ability to "brace myself":
One definition means to have "mental and physical stamina." .
Another defines it as the ability to maintain a sense of power and control. .
Yet another meaning involved maintaining your authority.
Bracing involves also commanding, having dominion and direction.
I think the definition that most impressed me was the ability to have a sense of lawfulness. Having a regime - {to administrate}, or govern. This is pretty deep, because it reminds me that I cannot control anything in my life that I do not first abide by myself as a rule of conduct, order or principle.
This so reminds me of the need to have rules and order and a structure in our lives in order to maintain any level of decency. I love that the word of God says : "let all things be done decently and in order." I am going to say this with caution, but also with wisdom: this scripture was taken from the word when it speaks about prophecy and the gifts of God. Prophecy is a very hard element to understand. One of the things that helps us though to understand the not-so-easily-understood things, is to consider the ORDER of it, but also to consider its meaning. I Corinthians 14:10 in the NLT says "There are many different languages in the world, and every language has meaning."
If you would like to evaluate further , your self ideal and your own inner motivations, stay tuned for the e-book coming soon!
