Brilliant Life by Divine Design

I am always amazed at how some animals, insects and birds for example can be PERFECTLY still and blend amazingly within their surroundings.  Whether for their next predatory action or safekeeping, camouflage works.

So it is in our lives.

What are you looking at today? Anything just not feel like it is being seen for what it is? Is something that is so distinctly there, but by cleverly blending into the surroundings stays innocently hidden?

For your benefit, stir it up, scuffle your feet a bit, make some noise — that you might see clearly what you are dealing with.  Whether for our good or harm, there is a time for it to be made plain.

Some things that are hidden need to come into clear view where disguise is no longer possible.  When it is made clear you’ll get that ‘ah-ha’ moments you need.  Clarity and insight  that may help you as you struggle to make good decisions and choices.

In relationships for example, I could give many examples of an unsettled feeling and uneasiness about what may be transpiring within the interactions.  I’ve learned (and still learning) to:

• Watch to see if actions match words spoken
• Trusting my gut, my instincts until clarity comes
• Getting wise counsel
• Praying for insight behind the veil of deception that may be involved

When we ask, seek and knock, knock, knock on the door of needed understanding we will get it.   And remember, if the enemy is involved, know this:

Where there is no counsel, the people fall; But in the multitude of counselors there is safety.

Coachpreneur Judyann

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Here’s some encouragement when you think you simply don’t have what it takes…….to move on, to step up, to let go, to forgive, to pass ‘go’.

God will always raise up a standard on your behalf.  It’s time to stop counting yourself out and start turning a blind eye and deaf ear to those who might have already done so.

It’s not over until He says its over.  Whatever mountain you’re attempting to climb, keep moving and count yourself in.  Like the popular idiom, see yourself ‘in the house’.  Take a stand and keep standing. You’ve arrived right on time to this particular season.

I recently had an experience that almost, I say almost had me believing an arena I was flowing in was at an end.   But not so fast Charlie Brown.  At the right moment, in the right way as I kept the faith and persevered it turned and it turned beautifully.  That’s the thing about keeping on keeping on….it changes things — you and the atmosphere you’re in.

While a new season may be ushering in, keep the nuggets and blessings of the season you just passed through.  It has purpose when you create your own memorial stones of gratitude.  That’s where the power is.  The power in remembering together what you and God have accomplished on your life path.   You don’t have to recount each and every one.  Just pick one and hang your current-day hat on it.

You made it through, you are here, you have what it takes to move forward and master this day, this season, this path.     Let the wind shift, the season change and the landscape turn color.

You’ve been given and will continue to be given absolutely everything you need to overcome, turn the next corner and embrace the new horizon.

And don’t be afraid to beat the drums on your own behalf. Father God will help you keep time and rhythm. 

You are worthy and you are worth it.  Who says so?  He says so, and today YOU and I say so…

Today’s Insight & Affirmation:

‘I am more than enough and I give God ‘permission to hold my right hand tightly as I move forward into the very next part of my Hand-written God story.’

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The sands shift, the waters ebb and flow and the world spins and changes with every tick of the clock, down to the millisecond.

We get sure footing only to look down and see once again the sands have shifted.  It’s unnerving, disconcerting and if allowed can keep us in a constant state of heightened anxiety, or at the very least subliminal distress.

We desperately seek a reprieve from the calamities that bombard our senses and our sensitivities.  It’s hard to imagine becoming tough enough to take it all in and not let it unravel our peace, but maybe that’s the problem.

We are allowing our gateways (mind, will and emotions) to embrace the roughness of the world without.

We can choose to step away from the bombardment of thoughts and ensuing feelings by limiting our exposure to that which we have absolutely NO CONTROL over. We need to know what is going on in the world but we don’t need to inhale it non-stop.

We can lean into that which we DO have control over-  our thoughts, our actions, our choices.  We can easily go adrift onto the sea of turmoil when we DON’T take charge of our time and for that matter feelings.

How many books, teachings, articles have been published to help us redirect?  Hundreds upon thousands.

I know I’m preaching to the choir today.  I have an extensive library.  I love books.  I love the covers, the insights and promises boldly proclaimed on the cover, but ask me how many I have read cover to cover. Very few of them. And yet there may be a chapter, a visual a one-sentence reminder that will help me breathe deeply and step over the stumbling stone in front of me that day. It is reassuring to know that, like myself  the many teachers, encouragers and life coaches are on the train of learning, growing and becoming with the heartfelt desire and intention of helping others.  Life is tough, we need the helpers, encouragers, inspirationalists, artists, teachers and preachers who diligently help us travel on our path.

Today though, I knew the book that would touch my heart.  Putting all other books aside a I went to my ‘Life Manual’ – the best book ever, God’s Living Word. The Good Book.

Insights that I knew would fill my heart, ease my mind and clear away the leftover tangled cobweb of yesterday and the potential forebodings of today are a paper-thin page flip away.  It never disappoints.  Never.

And the promise I gleaned for today?  One simply powerful word ‘forevermore’.

It began as I sat with my pen and journal and that beautiful word  ‘forevermore’ floated in.   I chose to dig into the promise behind that Spirit-inspired insight.   And here’s one of the beautiful, unending promises straight from the throne-room of heaven.

Psalms 16:11  

You will show me the path of life. In your presence is fullness of joy. In your right hand there are pleasures forevermore.    NKJV

When the unsettledness of the day rise upon you, find those moments that you can be still and embrace the beauty of God’s Presence.  It’s there for you to access even amidst the knot in your stomach, the unending regurgitations of the daily news or everyday life circumstances that require your work-through.    Let it be your rudder and rear guard.  Even now as I write this I feel God’s grace-filled Presence embodying this moment of time.  It is before I launch into the activities of the day, and for me it is comforting and steadying.

Listening and enjoying God’s Presence — the One Who holds all Power and Promise is joyful amidst the turmoil.  Contentment comes.

Today’s Code Word?    FOREVERMORE.

May this bless and encourage you today.

Today’s Insight & Affirmation:

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