F R E E D O M...
Aloha! It's been a bit since my last post and there are many things that have been happening here in Oahu! Here's a short update...
Michael has been thriving here! He just got a new job as general manager at Jamba Juice and is thrilled! He's no longer in the gymnastics field and so happy after over 20 years of the same type of work! God is good!!
He's also co-leading a men's group at our church Hope Chapel called Men's Fraternity and so excited to be serving in this way. He has felt for so long, God's leading him to this, and now it's coming to fruition. He has learned so much in his own journey and feels eager to share and encourage other men in their process. It's been a wonderful and fulfilling ministry for him and I'm so proud of what he's accomplishing for God through it!
I have still been working on my health...a continual on-going job! I am truly learning so much about my self. Just being here by myself, with no job, no family around, no animals and NO car has forced me to be alone much of the time and I'm using it to spend a lot of time with my counselor Jesus...and oh is He counseling me!! I've come to realize that I have a lot more healing from damaged emotions of dealing with people over the years in how they have treated me...all the hurt, rejection, misunderstanding and not believing that I was/am truly sick (so many believe that when you an have "invisible illness" and one doesn't get well over time, that it's all in your head! I posted a lot about this in my previous post). I have realized that if someone was not OK with me, then I was not OK with me. Not a good way to live this life! I have always spent so much energy trying to "explain" myself and prove myself to others. So I've been working on turning that around inside and with God's help, I am truly feeling a positive shift. I just recently did an exercise that was very empowering and encouraging for me. I titled it, "I AM" and then proceeded to write out everything that I AM, not what others say I am, and not what I "feel" I am...just the facts of WHO I am. I will share that in my next post. It's all a lot of work, but that is WHY God brought me here, so I can do the work in an environment that will not distract and oh how I thank Him that's in a place of such beauty! Where I can get out of the house in the beautiful sun and not be trapped inside by the cold! It's GOOD!
Another area I have been working on is opening up my creativity again. I loved to draw as a child and have wanted to get back to drawing and being creative again...so healing and good for the soul! A good friend and I started a FB page called CREATE where we inspire one another and others with a word theme for the week and we then make something that represents what that word means to us and post it on our page. Our last week's word was FREEDOM, and God led me to create the following video for my project. It's been a wonderful page and God is opening doors for others to join us and enter into the fun of getting creative again and finding healing in sharing with one another!
So I will end this post with this video...God bless you all and as always, please let me know your thoughts and any way that I can be praying for you!!
Hugs & Blessings!
Sue
Aloha! It's been a bit since my last post and there are many things that have been happening here in Oahu! Here's a short update...
Michael has been thriving here! He just got a new job as general manager at Jamba Juice and is thrilled! He's no longer in the gymnastics field and so happy after over 20 years of the same type of work! God is good!!
He's also co-leading a men's group at our church Hope Chapel called Men's Fraternity and so excited to be serving in this way. He has felt for so long, God's leading him to this, and now it's coming to fruition. He has learned so much in his own journey and feels eager to share and encourage other men in their process. It's been a wonderful and fulfilling ministry for him and I'm so proud of what he's accomplishing for God through it!
I have still been working on my health...a continual on-going job! I am truly learning so much about my self. Just being here by myself, with no job, no family around, no animals and NO car has forced me to be alone much of the time and I'm using it to spend a lot of time with my counselor Jesus...and oh is He counseling me!! I've come to realize that I have a lot more healing from damaged emotions of dealing with people over the years in how they have treated me...all the hurt, rejection, misunderstanding and not believing that I was/am truly sick (so many believe that when you an have "invisible illness" and one doesn't get well over time, that it's all in your head! I posted a lot about this in my previous post). I have realized that if someone was not OK with me, then I was not OK with me. Not a good way to live this life! I have always spent so much energy trying to "explain" myself and prove myself to others. So I've been working on turning that around inside and with God's help, I am truly feeling a positive shift. I just recently did an exercise that was very empowering and encouraging for me. I titled it, "I AM" and then proceeded to write out everything that I AM, not what others say I am, and not what I "feel" I am...just the facts of WHO I am. I will share that in my next post. It's all a lot of work, but that is WHY God brought me here, so I can do the work in an environment that will not distract and oh how I thank Him that's in a place of such beauty! Where I can get out of the house in the beautiful sun and not be trapped inside by the cold! It's GOOD!
Another area I have been working on is opening up my creativity again. I loved to draw as a child and have wanted to get back to drawing and being creative again...so healing and good for the soul! A good friend and I started a FB page called CREATE where we inspire one another and others with a word theme for the week and we then make something that represents what that word means to us and post it on our page. Our last week's word was FREEDOM, and God led me to create the following video for my project. It's been a wonderful page and God is opening doors for others to join us and enter into the fun of getting creative again and finding healing in sharing with one another!
So I will end this post with this video...God bless you all and as always, please let me know your thoughts and any way that I can be praying for you!!
Hugs & Blessings!
Sue
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Good stuff Babe-as usual!!
Michael
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