Awakening

This is my first post on this blog, which I am calling Awakening. Awakening is the word the Lord has had on my heart for years. I began a journey of healing in June of 2010 due to brokenness inside myself. One of the books I read was Waking the Dead by John Eldredge. The book was wonderful and every time I talked of it, I would gush over what it had done for me. For the longest time however, I couldn't remember the name. I knew what felt most true for me to the deepest part of my soul was the word Awakening. I would tell my friend that name, but then my mind would be triggered to the real title Waking the Dead.

The definition of Awakening according to Oxford Dictionary is: an act or moment of becoming suddenly aware of something. It made so much sense why this word felt so right for inside of myself there was an Awakening that began with my journey. I believe the Lord is calling each one of us into an Awakening and it is why I called both my ministry and this blog Awakening. As long as we are asleep or dead to what's going on around us, as long as we are unaware, we are stuck. We cannot change what we do not acknowledge.

On this journey, a part of my awakening was to become much more aware of my heart and my feelings. I'd always been taught that my emotions and my body were fickle and not to trust them. Therefore for years, I'd been shutting down my heart, feelings, and emotions. When I began to realize how much these feelings and emotions were actually a tool used by the Lord to help me live a life to the full, that's when my journey of healing began.

Emotions and feelings are like a smoke detector. I could just shut it off, but then what good would the smoke detector be? If the smoke detector is to be put to good use, then we are to look around and find what's causing the fire. There are times when the smoke detector is in need of repair. That's where things like good counseling or Inner Healing can be helpful, to help find out where the crossed wires are in this smoke detector that keeps going off without any smoke being present. And all of us need this help from time to time.

As you are possibly hoping to either begin or continue your own journey of Awakening, I invite you to follow this blog. I hope to post ideas and stories that may help you as you go along your journey. We all continue to grow on this journey called life and on this side of Heaven don't see the finished product, however we get to participate in continued healing in our lives. Join me won't you?