You Are NOT Your Circumstances

"It doesn't matter how bad your past or current situation is,

What does matter is that you take action to change it for the better"

~ Rev. Sue

We are NOT our circumstances.

We have a choice to make... Do we let our past and present situations destroy or DEFINE us?

Are we victims or VICTORS?

It's all up to us.

I say we move forward and learn from these situations and not get overwhelmed by them.

I know all too well the trappings of circumstance.

I've known some people who let illness define who they are and they stay stuck in this

"holding pattern" because it has become their identity.

I actually did this myself years ago when I was very ill.

I stayed stuck for quite a while until I got out of my own way.

I had to do the work on myself and fix what was broke emotionally and physically.

I use the metaphor "holding pattern" because I pictured this airplane descending on it's destination but stuck in a holding pattern as there is a condition preventing it from landing.

This is true with people who stay stuck in their "stuff". They are stuck in a "holding pattern" so to speak and just cannot get to where they want in life.

How I moved forward:

The first step to freeing myself from this "holding pattern"was changing the thoughts and feelings I had about myself and discovering how those feelings of not being good enough even entered my mindset.

It's important to do forgiveness healing for yourself as well as other people,

this is a way of letting go. Forgiveness is for YOU to move forward.

Then I learned that all thoughts, words and deeds had indeed become things and also how to feel the negative feelings and let them go, not hang on to them as they literally could make you sick.

"Energy flows where attention goes"~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Once we master our thoughts, we master our lives.

Much Love,

Rev. Sue