Thank you all for allowing me to take the “quiet time” with the Lord that I needed to further understand the vision the Lord has for my life and The Butterfly Journey! I will officially be back in September with my “wings” spread wide to continue this journey with you! Let’s see what God has in store for each of us, and let’s begin the transformation into our destiny! Be blessed – Lisa
Tag: destiny
What’s Your Zeal Level?
I watched as my vibrant mother (76 years young) deal with her deterring health. Since October of 2012 she has suffered with synosis of the back with terrible pain in her leg and foot. She went from an active woman to a woman who had to walk with the aid of cane and even then every movement proved to be a huge challenge for her.
But she kept going, with a resolve that if she could be healed God would be the one to do it. Her spirit dipped low at points and I saw depression begin to set in. But one day at her kitchen sink be began to pray and the spirit of the Lord fell upon us and she knew at that time that whatever her state she would continue to live her life on purpose for God.
She believes and trusts God so much that even in the midst of her storm she still had the zeal to make a difference in the world for Christ!
Yesterday was a turning point for her as she successfully underwent surgery on her back. She is going to have a long road to become the active woman that I once knew, but she is willing to do whatever it takes to receive her full healing and continue to fulfill her purpose. I admire my mother all the time, she is a pure example of how the love of God can carry you even when things around you begin to change. God is consistent in who He is!
I see people everyday that have no health problems and in essence their life is really not that bad, but yet they will not resolve to live their life on purpose. Their zeal for life is nowhere to be found. I had to look at my own life to measure my level of zeal for the things that God has entrusted me with. Will I continue to live on purpose and fulfill my destiny? Even in the midst of adversity would I continue to seek God for everything I need? Tough questions to ponder but as I watched my mother continue to have faith in a faithful God, I decided too that I would live each day to the fullest.
Don’t you think that you could muster up some zeal for life. Just take a look around at the people that have less than you and yet they live a life that is full of zeal for purpose. What is holding you back from wanting to be all that God created you to be?
If you don’t know what you are destined to be, then why not allow a life coach help you get to the place that you want to be? Because we feel so strongly in helping women everywhere find their true worth and walk in their destiny, we are offering our new life coaching program for only $150 for 5 weeks of intense, action-packed coaching. We have special payment options so that you don’t even have to pay everything up front! And for some we will even waive the price, just because our mission in life is to help catapult women into purpose. God wants us all to live a life with zeal! Our gifts are presents from God and our use of those gifts are presents to Him.
Contact us today to begin your journey! lisa@thebutterflyjourney.net
The Butterfly Journey ~ Lisa
Every Day A Challenge
Even though, I am living my life on purpose now and far from the land of depression that I suffered a short few years ago, I still have challenges.
Every day is a challenge for me; something is always evolving from situation that I would rather not have to face. But this just life. I have to face my challenges and I do, sometimes with zeal, prayer and supplication. Other times not so much. I run to my friends for encouragement (while nothing is wrong with that), I come to know that really I need to seek God first in everything.
All of us have challenges we face on a daily basis, but our choice in how we face them is the key to getting through them in the shortest, most productive way that we can. For me it’s prayer (conversations) with God directly.
Sure I can call on my friends, however, they have their challenges too and so they may not have the energy to deal with me at that particular time. So now I feel left out, I feel not valued or loved, but no I need to understand that my issues are just that – mine.
Trust me when I say that when I was engulfed in my depression there was no one and I mean no one that could come to my aid. But the lesson I learned from that is that God wanted me to look to Him for everything that I needed during that time. It was a lesson in FAITH and it has prepared me for the things that would come my way.
Find your comfort in facing your challenges, but do face them. The worst thing that we can do is bury our heads in the sand, or couch and try to pretend that they don’t exist. It will only get worse. But next time seek God for the answers of how to deal with your challenge in a more spiritual way and see how He will orchestrate the outcome for you.
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The Butterfly Journey ~ Lisa
The Dream – Living on Purpose
I had a dream the other night, which left me discovering something amazing. My dream was about my life and I was living it out on purpose, just how I have envisioned it for many years. You see I am a dreamer at heart and I have been for as long as I can remember I loved to day-dream about the ultimate life that I would live. Well the other night when I had the dream again, of course it was different from the ones I used to dream when I was younger. It had purpose at the heart of it. I was living each day as if it was my last day on earth.
The humbling thing is that could really be the case. I don’t know when the Lord will call me home and I should be living each day as if it is my last. I want everyday to be filled with purpose and discovery. Discovering the world, exploring new adventures, serving people in need, and living out exactly what God has ordained for me.
It’s going take some courage to do this I know, but I really feel the desire to do so. I want to live an abundant life that God promised to me. Now it seems is the time, what am I waiting for? Tomorrow is not promised to me. I want my legacy to be that I lived on purpose and I fulfilled my God-given destiny! That I lived with extraordinary zeal. I want someone to say; “I want to live my life to the fullest, just like Lisa.”
If I die tomorrow I want to have lived my life on purpose, to the fullest! Much prayer is needed to forge into the unknown world, to try new things, to step out on faith; to live! But friends, that is what I am going to do.
What is holding you back from pursuing a life of purpose? Join us on The Butterfly Journey Facebook page as I share my experiences and encourage you to live on purpose and with God. www.facebook.com/thebutterflysjourney
I hope to see you on the road of purpose and living each day as if it was your last!
The Butterfly Journey ~ Lisa
Finding the Real You
I have come to the realization that writing is therapy for me. The things I can’t say, I can write. I can be my original self through words, words that are deep in my heart, but words that sometimes I can’t express in speech.
I guess that is why God had me write my first book; The Butterfly’s Journey. It allowed me to share my journey in the most personal way that I could. It allowed me the freedom to spill my deepest hurts and pain onto the page without worrying about judgement of others.
Like today, as I lay on my couch in deep thought about my life and where I am, where I desire to be, and where I have been the thought of talking to anyone about it made me recoil inside. I have a lot of scars from my past that some people won’t understand, some won’t care, and others don’t really matter. I continue on my “butterfly” journey every day. It is a process that will never end until my life is over here on earth.
Each day reveals a new challenge, a new knowledge and wisdom into allowing God to direct me to the place in my heart that He wants me to be. I go over in my mind all the time about why God loves me so much and I can only figure out because He made me and I am His child that His love for me is eternal.
When I go back to the place that I was in over 3 years ago (depression), I remember that God was there for me. No one in this entire world was there, but God. He loved me in my deepest unstableness. He wiped every tear of pain away and cleaned away the dark parts of my heart so that I could live again!
It is easy to allow yourself to think that people, relationships, careers. . .things could ever replace or be like God is in your life, but there is no comparison.
I don’t know when it starts, but in most of our lives we have grown up with the notion that we must fit in, or be a certain way in order to receive the love, admiration, success, and popularity that we all gravitate to. And in our quest to get those things we become lost in who we really are, who God made us to be. If we never make a “shift” in our own thinking we will never know the full purpose of our lives. If you never get tired of being everything to everybody and seeking to find your purpose in life, the real you; you will end up dying with your purpose still inside of you.
Well, I don’t know about you but I don’t want that. I don’t want to have to perform to have the love I feel I deserve from my family and friends. I don’t want to be just like everyone else, because that is what is expected of me. I want to be me. . .Lisa. . .the woman who God created to fulfill a purpose with my life. I want to feel liberated to stretch my creativity, live my life on purpose and make a difference in someone elses life.
Is it too much to ask for you to love me for who I am in my most original self? Can I ask you to help me navigate this thing called life in the most marvelous way that I can, which is being me with all of my faults, my unstableness, my quirkyness and everything that makes me me?
That’s what The Butterfly Journey Ministry is striving to do, just being there for women to help them find their place in life, to find that “real” you who is stuck behind the walls of pain and disappointment. We want to celebrate you just for how God made you! Will the real you please stand up?!
The Butterfly Journey ~ Lisa
Enjoy the Journey
This week has been a whirlwind of excitement! I met with my editor for the book (The Butterfly’s Journey) and she said the book is awesome! I started to cry because I never dreamed of writing a book, but when God put it in my spirit to share my testimony in a book I felt unworthy to do so.
I am no Toni Morrison to say the least, but I really want to produce a product that is life-changing for women all over the world. But as I began to think about the task at hand each week and each month that went by, I started to convince myself that it wouldn’t work. I couldn’t do it.
The rollercoaster of emotions that I felt along the way were hard to handle. Almost everyday I had to ask God to give me direction and clarity. I began learning to walk in faith last year (for real this time) and it has been one of the hardest things that I have taken on in my life! It seemed as if one thing would be working out and then something different would come along to squash my confidence and joy.
But I am learning each day to trust in Almighty God for every aspect of my life and it has been an amazing journey thus far. I decided this year I would start a journal of my experiences with learning to walk by faith and not by sight with the Lord. (just a little secret. . .this will be the base of my second book)!
As I challenge myself to live the best life that I can live; I want to also challenge you to do the same. Tackling this project is not for the weary at heart. It is going to require a lot of dedication, commitment, and praying in order to make it through. I know that if we keep God first and focus on Him we shall be victorious.
My prayer for you and I is to keep our faith strong and never allow the doubts and fears of life stop us from accomplishing the greatest things that God has for us to do. I pray that whatever comes to slow us down from making the necessary positive changes for a better life, will dissolve before our eyes as we lift up prayers to God. I pray that every day brings us closer to working in our purpose and walking delightfully into our destiny.
Always take the opportunity to learn life lesson from your every day experiences and enjoy the journey!
The Butterfly Journey ~ Lisa
Spring Cleaning
It’s time to do some spring cleaning! I love spring, the time when everything comes to life again. The trees start budding, the flowers begin to pop up from under the ground, and we get more sunshine as the last few weeks of winter start to fade away.
Every year I would take a week off of work just to stay home and organize, purge junk and clean everything from the floor to the kitchen cabinets. It was wonderful therapy for me to get rid of stuff and get everything fresh and new!
Well this year I am spring cleaning my life! I am taking inventory of the habits (good & bad), my relationships, my career, my health (emotional & physical), and my finances so I can make changes for a better self. Yeah I know it is easier to just clean the refrigerator out or donate a bag of clothes to the Salvation Army, but self-cleaning is necessary. I want to live the best life that I can live and if I have stuff that is not doing me any good to reach that “best life”; guess what. . .it has to go!
I am always praying and asking God for divine wisdom and guidance for my life as I desire to be everything that He ordained me to be. Sometimes the changes are hard, but I realize in the end the reward is greater.
I am going to start a journal of my experience as I blossom into the person that God wants me to be. Perhaps this will be the making of my second book!
I think that it’s necessary to evaluate the present state of your life in order to reach your full potential. Asking God the whys of your life and listening for clarity are lessons well learned. He will give you everything you need to push past hurt, pain, and unforgiveness and give you the desire to walk in your destiny!
This spring will be the best start for my new life! I pray that you will do the same. Happy spring cleaning!
The Butterfly Journey ~ Lisa
It’s Not About Me
My challenge this year was to post new blogs everyday of the week. Unfortunately, life comes at you and changes things. More important things have arisen to take my attention.
As I begin to understand the full spectrum of this ministry that the Lord has me involved in, it is not going to be easy. I didn’t believe that it would be, but I know that God is with me every step of the way. And so I push on.
This ministry – The Butterfly Journey; is not about becoming famous and living in the lime light of TV or books or anything else. It is about helping women become healed from the hurts of life and move into a new place of purpose in God. It is about interceding in prayer for the women that come to me with their hearts broken and their fears magnified. I want the women that come to this ministry to be drawn by the love of God that is in me. I pray that my spirit will always be in line with what God wants, not my own agenda. It has nothing to do with me really.
My prayer is that every woman who comes in contact with me and this ministry will receive the restoration that they need to move into their purpose and walk out their destiny with God. My compassion for them is so deep that I understand that I will have some sleepless nights. I understand the role that God wants me to play for them, the message that He wants me to share with them. The prayers that I will need to pray over them and for them. It won’t be about nice clothes and pretty faces, it will be about the condition of their heart that God (and I) are concerned with.
I had to write this out today because it is a reminder to me of how important each woman who I come in contact with is, especially to God. I can’t take one moment for granted. I can’t get caught up in the hype that is all around me. I can’t look at success in numbers, but in transformation of souls. I took on this mission because God asked me to share all that He has done for me. When I was in my place of darkness and depression, He saved me for His purpose and this my friend is an honor for me!
The Butterfly Journey ~ Lisa
The Circle of Fear
Once again I am going around this same old process. I am tired of standing in the face of success with fear. What am I afraid of? God gave me the plan and endorsement, so just do it already! But sometimes this paralyzing feeling of fear of success creeps up inside of me and I feel like a deer caught in headlights. Afraid to run and afraid to stand still.
I know I said earlier this year (and January isn’t even over yet), that I would walk by faith. I said that I would continue to move forward regardless of my own human limitations. But here I am again stuck in a place of overwhelming fear that I can’t do what God asked me to do. I know that sounds awful and I feel awful for saying and feeling it, but it is true. I understand that the key to being able to push past this feeling is prayer. I need to continue to seek God every minute of the day for direction, motivation, and clarity to accomplish my mission.
I wonder if others ever feel the same? Did those who have reach their moment of success ever feel overwhelmed with fear? I need to hear their stories of overcoming. I need to know what was the pivotal moment that released them to push past that moment/feeling? What was it that catapulted them to move past the fear and grasp the reality of success that they knew would come?
I really don’t want to continue on this circle of fear of success. I want to move past it and begin to walk in the purpose and destiny that God has ordained for me.
Today I am asking for your feedback, comments, and stories about how you have overcome the feeling of fear of success and moved into your purpose. Thanks in advance for your input.
The Butterfly Journey – Lisa
Dream Bigger!
What does faith have to do with dreaming bigger? Everything, we can only dream as big as our imagination can take us. Beyond that point we have nothing. We can strain and squeeze our brains all we want and we are never going to be able to imagine more that it can contain. But with faith you see anything is possible. God is able to do above and beyond our wildest, most creative dreams.
My good friend decided to step off the cliff into a “faith walk” that God had prepared for her. I was so scared and happy for her all at the same time. I envied her tenacity to make such a bold move with her life. I wanted to do the same thing, but I didn’t have the nerve that it took to even get to the edge of the cliff. But my friend Denise said the urge to step into her destiny was so strong she felt she had no other choice. So she took a quantum leap with God and the results have been more than miraculous.
You see, my friend, Denise Hall Brown, has suffered a tremendous amount of lost and tragedy since the time that I met her. Years before I even knew who she was or her story, she had lost her mother to a tragic accident with a drunk driver. Her mother was her world and at her tender age, it was a devastating event that would rock her world.
Years later, when I did have the opportunity to know Denise very well, is when she suffered the untimely loss of her 6 month old baby boy, Isaiah. I remember that day just like it was yesterday and I don’t think I will ever forget it. My heart broke in a thousands pieces for her and her family and I feel like a part of me will never be the same.
Yet in still she rose to the top and she survived and she began a deep walk with the Lord. She opened her heart to Him in such a humble way that it amazed me to see her grow so fast in her spiritual journey after all that she had endured.
Then again tragedy struck when one winter season not very long ago, she lost her husband. I began to wonder too what was God doing in the midst of this sisters life. How could she take anymore upon her soul? But she continued to grow in her walk and she grieved and grieved. She was down but she wasn’t out. You have to read her full story in her book: 2Grieve 2Gether for the rest of her journey. More about Denise’s story and how to purchase her book: www.2grieve2gether.org or www.amazon.com
Today, she is not only surviving, she is thriving! If you ask her I am sure she would tell you that she never would have dreamed that she would be in the place that she is today. Her story/book has just been nominated for: Outstanding Literary Work – Debut Author with the 43rd NAACP Image Awards! (www.naacpimageawards.net) She wrote that book to help other survivors and supporters get successfully through the grieving process. She understood her purpose and destiny and she humbled herself to give to others. In the midst of that God has shown her favor. And because her mind could only image so much, God took over and helped her to – Dream Bigger!
The Butterfly Journey – Lisa
