Do you realize that God created us just as we are, on purpose?

Each of us has experienced dastardly low points and exhilarating high points in our lives. And, we have each been like travelers, visiting our low places and high places, and journeying those expanses in between.

Each step we have taken has been significant.
Each fear—significant.
Each love—significant.
Each devastation—significant.
Each trial—significant.
Each failure—significant.
Each triumph—significant.

Each of our past joys and triumphs, loves and passions, has served to strengthen us and stabilize us, even in the present. But our past fears, our failures, our lacks of cour-age, our angers and unforgivenesses have created wounds inside us that hold enough power, still, to taint our thoughts, about ourselves and our lives, and trip us into believing that our lives can't get any better.

The pursuit of a truly better life involves truly better believing. We have to open ourselves to a level of thinking that delves deeper into our spiritual notions of who and what we are:
We are creations of God . . . and nothing has happened to us that God doesn’t know about.

None of our experiences have been mistakes—they have all been crucial chapters of our legend. And nothing has happened to us that could dismantle our God-given birthright to be amazing spirit-creatures with all the power we need to leave our Trouble for our High Places.

Our transformation from troubled-Self to High Places-Self begins with our re-evaluation of our notions about God. Everything we believe about ourselves is determined by what we believe about God, who we think God is, and what we think God feels toward us. In the womanspace, what we feel about ourselves and what we believe God feels about us are one and the same thing. It is imperative that we see that our connection to God doesn’t depend on what we do or don’t do; but more, it exists as an unchangeable, benevolent energy that we cannot end or mutilate or affect, except in our own minds. God’s love for us is out of our control! This essential life-blood connection is not subject to our whims, fears, doubts, or neurosis! Nor does it depend upon our ability to be good girls, as we have, in whatever way, defined that notion.

(From Trouble to High Places: Meditations For women Who Are So Ready to Cross the Bridges That Lead to Joy! Copyright 2008, Esthe Davis-Thompson)

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