Shaken

God will allow everything around you to be shaken in order to prepare your faith and emotions for the future. The shaking is preparation. Respond with maturity.

More than ever, there is an unwavering search for just the right answers to help us make meaning of our experiences. " Why" has become more than a question; it has become a bold quest for clarity.

Earthquakes.

They disrupt earth's surface, often times without warning; an uninvited intruder that forces us to yield and rebuild.

What happens when the earthquakes in our lives wildly shake our soul and the dismantling begins?

Pandemics.Illnesses. Divorces.Deaths.

God allows earthquakes!

Our response to life's most pressing and despiriting narratives helps us define these moments.

Our perspective help us to take control over the mental portraits, shifting those questions from "why" is this happening to "what" can I learn from this and "how" can I be victorious.

God gave us emotions. We are allowed to feel both rage and rest. Feelings are legal.

We are human, and although we are allowed to openly express our emotions; emotional intelligence is a necessity.

I can attest to what it feels like to navigate spaces with professional maturity, but lacking full emotional maturity. Whew! I'm so glad that God is gracious enough to teach us the prerequisites for sustaning our next-level blessings. He teaches us how to tranform rage to full reliance on Him.....to stir up the fruits of the spirit within us.

It is then, we are able to respond with the maturity that believes, " God allowed it. This is preparing me. I will surrender to the pruning."

Transformation, visions, books, movements have all been birthed from the souls of people who didn't quit when life added pressure.

The shaking, the pressing is purposeful.

xoxo,

Kimberlyn