Peace & Harmony

Often I contemplate the job I do and the choice to do things that push me out of my comfort zones at times...only to find I have the capability to learn, or surprisingly enough find I have the skills already in hand...yesterday heading to work I thanked God for the silent heart He blessed me with for the budding young narcissist in my life...no stress, no worry, just a calm and quiet mind...I was greeted with the news that I would be on my own today as she had taken a sick day, and straight into the uncomfortable task set before me.

Nothing major....just a new and super remote area North of Fort St. James....set with helping volunteers set in a bridge...nothing major right? I navigated my way in to the new area and found the workers down a rabbit trail of a path....hallelujah....only to be told they had it handled and didn't need the help after all...this job is nothing if not instantly changeable at any given moment.

I was given new tasks back out and on the beautiful North Road and further North by 50 km's to assess old sites and see what state of disrepair they were in. God knows dear hearts...He knows exactly what we need...always....not only was I blessed with the peace of driving these back roads alone, I was alone in some of the most beautiful wilderness in this province...

Oh, the peace as I would step out of the truck into absolute silence....well almost....

I was greeted, as I stood at the waters edge of one particularly large body of water, with the sounds of shifting ice...crackling slightly....greeted with the sound of wind sowing through the frozen trees....stooping down I picked up a large handful of rocks and through them out onto the clear ice of the lake....each stone hit with a pock, pock, pock, and a thump that echoed above and below and out across the clear blue ice....I stood in thankfulness and a heart filled with joy, an oh so wide smile only the birds of the air could see on my face....beauty for ashes....

Turning points come dear treasures when we allow our hearts and minds to open to new possibilities...to new pathways....including the one up and out of that perilous pit you have been thrown into. God is able...this is what I have come to see....He made a way for me....

Oh the truth is my friends, it is not easy...the hard life-changing decisions always are. There is a lead-up, a prologue that must be followed...but...and yet...the daily grind of the life being lived in hell has fashioned within you a toughness, a bravery yet untapped.

Walk it out dear treasures...walk out your survival with head held high leaving behind the mess, the chaos, the torment and abuse...you proclaim to the heavens and in the spirit that you are worthy of more by doing so...and so will begin your journey of healing, of making your way to that soft healing light at the end of the tunnel. Begin that journey with faith, wit hope for a future filled with peace, with compassion, with kindness...begin that journey and drop the weight of shame and humiliation to the ground with each step taken.

'For we walk by faith, not by sight' 2 Corinthians 5:7

Worthy...needed....necessary....worthy of a magical kind of love...you are Queens (& Kings) each one...God has better, has more, has an abundance of joy and love waiting for you outside the darkness you live in...all we need do is step out and away to see the sun shine above us once more.

Go with God today dear hearts, go with God and see His love for you right where you are.

Stand tall...walk proud...and speak your truth in every circumstance, with wisdom and grace...with kindness but with confidence...there is so much waiting for you....