Recently, I had the chance to attend this year's Covenant Women's Conference. It was the most rejuvenating, and refreshing time spent with other women coming together to renew and grow in their relationship with God. I went into the conference desperate to find some kind of peace and guidance because of the turmoil I was presently surrounded by in my life. Funny thing is I received more then I could have ever imagined.
Do you ever feel like life is suffocating you and you are grasping for air but you just can never get enough? I felt like this a month ago, planted firmly like a tree in my surroundings, but receiving the effects of the environment around that made me bend, and sway and twist to the point that I knew I was meant to break.
During the conference, I had the chance to hear Dr. Caroline Leaf speak. She was fantastic, and you definitly had to make a point to listen quite intently because she spoke quickly. As if every sentence had a purpose within a formula that would eventually add up to a miraculous conclusion that was encouraging, fascinating and made perfect sense in our every day lives.
Within her conversation about quantum physics, God, creation, science, she spoke two sentences that really made me take a second and take a step back to observe my purpose in life and even purpose of my own existence.
"There is no chemical in our body that has been made to make us fear; fear is learned."- Dr. Caroline Leaf
"We have been wired chemically to LOVE."-Dr. Caroline Leaf
We are meant to love, and we have learned to fear. This is significant!
As a social worker I have had to learn to have insight in my own life to be able to have unbiased insight into other's lives to be able to help them. I started thinking about how my insight of my parent's divorce, my life growing up with out my birth father, and the mistakes I have made as a young adult were all shaped by fear. This fear which in return created thoughts of doubt that sprung up lack of self confidence and eventually the total opposite of the purpose of life, to learn to love.
This realization that I was doing everything backwards challenged me. It open my eyes and ears to what my Mom has been trying to tell me all my life, and even what I tell my clients, " Maegan, you must learn to love yourself before you can love anyone else."
Knowing that even to the point biologically, that fear has no control over who I am, what I do, and what I go through, is LIBERATING! I feel like there is more to life when you know at the foundation you are planted in is formed with the intentions of love. I am meant to like and love myself, Maegan. With this absolute knowledge of loving my self can break the walls of self doubt and fear and open new doors of opportunity of the unique creation that is meant to live in harmony of my surrounding even through the testimonies that want to bend and sway and twist me. These are now opportunities to grow and become more creative in my life.
That is my focus now! Relearning to love myself and explore the creation that God has meant for me to be today. I hope you will join me in that journey, breaking through the walls of doubt and fear and relearning to love ourselves by exploring and bursting through the doors of vast opportunities.
Some times it is good to step out side your boundaries, making yourself uncomfortable, so that it will give room for God to use you.
Dr. Caroline Leaf's Website
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