Before we can begin to start our “butterfly journey”, we must first prepare for transformation. How do you do that, you ask? It’s not easy!
First we need to change our mindset towards ourselves and recognize that we can’t do this alone. That there is more to life than just living the way we have been. We need God to help us through and we need each other to encourage one another along the way. We have to build trust in God’s process. Most importantly we need to desire the change. We have to get tired of being tired of the way that things are with our lives.
Our desire to seek our “true” destiny has to be stronger than turning back or remaining in a life that is dead and unfruitful. We need to acknowledge that we don’t have all the answers to life and we need God to help us. We need to begin the purging process and that takes a lot of courage.
You will need to dig deep into yourself to identify the places in your life that need to be understood and then buried. Asking, praying, and seeking God for those answers is our key to moving beyond our past and starting anew. I literally had to relive those places in my life that were not so wonderful and ask God to show me why I made the choices that I did and how to move past the hurt and disappointment that people had left in my life and things that I myself had deposited in my spirit. I had to allow Him to purge me from those things that were keeping me from understanding my “true” worth in Him.
We can’t skip this part of the process because it prepares us for the transformation stage; which in itself is a tough process. You have to put your trust in a God that you can’t see, but you can feel His love, grace, and peace all around you!
It’s time for you to prepare, let’s go!
The Butterfly Journey ~ Lisa
