I've been thinking about this post for weeks. This knowledge was given to me one morning several weeks ago and I wrote it down because it was so profound to me and I knew that I'd be sharing it with others. I knew that it was part of my journey and something I had to know. I'm feeling like now is the time to share.
So here goes...
There's no such thing as victim energy in heaven. Victim status and energy is a lie that Satan made up and has been telling since Adam and Eve! I see victim energy as a gray energy that can be resistant to being released if the person has been at that energetic level for a long time. But the light of Christ (Sonlight!) can dispel anything. The light of Christ is LOVE! By allowing the love of Christ into our life, it gets us out of victim energy.
The trick for a new student of this knowledge is learning how to stay in that Sonlight, that LOVE. And we want to stay in the Sonlight, or LOVE!
First of all, it feels better.
Second, from an energetic standpoint, victim energy resonates very low. When we allow ourselves to be pulled or knocked down into that low place, it literally takes us away from the extremely high vibration of God and the Son.
That obviously makes Satan happy - his lies are working to pull us away from our Heavenly Father. That means that it is taking us longer to fulfill the mission that we were sent here to do. He's slowing us down. And maybe if he does it often enough, we'll decide it just isn't worth it to keep fighting him. Maybe we'll get tired and give up. That's his hope. Discouragement is one of the Devil's greatest tools.
While we were sent here to be tested and see who we would follow, we were NOT sent here to fail! If we get knocked down, it's always our choice to get back up again! We can do whatever it takes to get ourselves back on track - including having energy work done if that feels right for us - to get us back to a higher vibration and closer to God.
Live in the light, y'all! Surround yourself with Christ's LOVE. It's better here!
<3,
Brooke
Friday
Wednesday
Opposition
I wonder what kind of opposition a butterfly feels while they're transforming in their chrysalis. I can only imagine the discouragement and fear that they did something wrong and they're never going to get out of that tight, uncomfortable place. But who knows? Maybe I'm giving that butterfly too much credit. Haha. :)
I've been thinking of opposition this morning. I just did a scary thing and told everyone more about my life than most people ever knew. And I've put that out there with the intention of sharing how I've changed, and am still changing. But what if I really haven't changed and I'm going to be stuck in that tight, uncomfortable place forever?
I'm feeling all awesome and "I can do this! This is my path and what I'm MADE to do!"
And then I get sick.
I've just spent a couple days in bed. I didn't even think about my blog. It took like 24 hours of feeling miserable before I even thought to balance my energy, or use essential oils, or drink some clay water.
Once those first, "Uh, oh. I don't feel well..." feelings first set in, it was so easy to follow the familiar path. Now I'm going, "What just happened?!" It was too easy to fall into that old pattern. It's time to take back my power and not get caught in the snare of the opposition.
Because I CAN do this! This IS my path and what I'm made to do! You know how I know? Because I've written down several quotes in the last few weeks that all point in the direction I'm going. And those quotes wouldn't exist if others before me hadn't already taken this path and conquered.
Here are a few of the quotes I found:
That last one is the most encouraging to me. If Christ said it, it's true and we can count on it. He wouldn't have said it if it wasn't possible! So, let's do this! We CAN do this! We can get past the opposition and do what we were made to do!
What positive changes are you making in your life so you can do what you were made to do?
<3,
Brooke
I've been thinking of opposition this morning. I just did a scary thing and told everyone more about my life than most people ever knew. And I've put that out there with the intention of sharing how I've changed, and am still changing. But what if I really haven't changed and I'm going to be stuck in that tight, uncomfortable place forever?
I'm feeling all awesome and "I can do this! This is my path and what I'm MADE to do!"
And then I get sick.
I've just spent a couple days in bed. I didn't even think about my blog. It took like 24 hours of feeling miserable before I even thought to balance my energy, or use essential oils, or drink some clay water.
Once those first, "Uh, oh. I don't feel well..." feelings first set in, it was so easy to follow the familiar path. Now I'm going, "What just happened?!" It was too easy to fall into that old pattern. It's time to take back my power and not get caught in the snare of the opposition.
Because I CAN do this! This IS my path and what I'm made to do! You know how I know? Because I've written down several quotes in the last few weeks that all point in the direction I'm going. And those quotes wouldn't exist if others before me hadn't already taken this path and conquered.
Here are a few of the quotes I found:
"Strive for progress not perfection."
~Unknown
"Some changes look negative on the surface but you will soon realize
that space is being created in your life for something new to emerge."
~Eckhart Tolle
"To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne,
even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne."
~Revelation 3:21
What positive changes are you making in your life so you can do what you were made to do?
<3,
Brooke
Friday
My Transformation
I was born into a dysfunctional situation. If you know me at all, that comes as no surprise. But very few people know exactly how bad things were. I don't have many memories of my childhood, and the ones I have are often not very positive.
I don't remember ever having much self-esteem. I was never as good as others. I'm not sure if that's because I knew my family didn't quite function the way other families did, or because I was always the new kid at school, or maybe it was something else I'm not even aware of. But I just never felt as good as others. I never felt worthy. I was bullied a lot - from grades 7-9, especially. But it continued throughout high school.
And then things at home... ugh! Let's just say that there was a fair amount of physical abuse, and we'll leave it at that for now. I got my first job at 16, and I spent as much time working as possible to keep me out of the house. I know some people would love to repeat their high school years, but there is no amount of money you could pay me to go back and re-live those years. I got out as quickly as possible by getting married and moving halfway across the country.
Talk about jumping from the frying pan into the fire! Things were never good in that marriage, but I knew that people were saying that it was never going to work, and I desperately wanted to prove them wrong! So I stuck it out for five years. That basically destroyed what little sense of self I had left.
After growing up never feeling a father's love (and there were three of them!) and then marrying a man who I now know is incapable of love and only married me because he thought he could mold me into what he wanted me to be, I was pretty disillusioned. I was seeing a (male) therapist during the divorce who summed up my feelings on men in two words: "Men suck!" That was a very accurate statement.
I remember once saying that I wasn't getting married again until I was 30. I wanted to get myself straightened out before I got into another relationship. But after a couple years I found myself dating again and I re-married at 26. I brought two kids with me into the marriage.
After being raised as a Marine brat I did something I never imagined doing: I married a Marine! It's an entirely different thing being a military brat versus being a military spouse. As a kid I didn't like the constant moving. (I went to 14 schools from Kindergarten through 12th grade! In all fairness, only 10 of those can be blamed on the military, though. That brought me most of the way through 7th grade, when my parents divorced.) As an adult, I hated the fact that the military owned my husband. I felt like the mistress who got what the wife (the government) didn't take first. Oh yeah, and I still hated moving. Fortunately we only did it every three years.
Finally after almost 11 years of marriage my husband and I decided that he should take early retirement. After a lot of stressing about trying to find a new job, we realized that the correct path God wanted us to take was for my husband to return to school and get a Master's degree. We moved so he could attend the University of Utah.
In our 12 years of marriage, we've added to our family. We have four additional kids on earth and one angel baby, our son Hyrum, who we lost at 16 weeks gestation.
A family of 8 can get kind of crazy at times. But that's our life, and over time God is molding me. He's helping me heal from my past and learn a new way to be. He's brought so much healing and growth into my life. I know that He will continue to do so.
And that is the point of this blog, to share the things that God has done for me and taught me. I'm still learning and I have a feeling that there's still a lot more for me to learn. I hope to be able to gracefully make the changes I need to make. I also hope that by sharing the things I've learned and am still learning, that it will bless the lives of others.
My word for 2016 is "transformation". Like the huge transformation a caterpillar has to make to become a butterfly, I hope that my transformation results in something just as beautiful. I hope you'll join me on my journey and find the courage to make your own transformative journey if necessary.
<3,
Brooke
I don't remember ever having much self-esteem. I was never as good as others. I'm not sure if that's because I knew my family didn't quite function the way other families did, or because I was always the new kid at school, or maybe it was something else I'm not even aware of. But I just never felt as good as others. I never felt worthy. I was bullied a lot - from grades 7-9, especially. But it continued throughout high school.
And then things at home... ugh! Let's just say that there was a fair amount of physical abuse, and we'll leave it at that for now. I got my first job at 16, and I spent as much time working as possible to keep me out of the house. I know some people would love to repeat their high school years, but there is no amount of money you could pay me to go back and re-live those years. I got out as quickly as possible by getting married and moving halfway across the country.
Talk about jumping from the frying pan into the fire! Things were never good in that marriage, but I knew that people were saying that it was never going to work, and I desperately wanted to prove them wrong! So I stuck it out for five years. That basically destroyed what little sense of self I had left.
After growing up never feeling a father's love (and there were three of them!) and then marrying a man who I now know is incapable of love and only married me because he thought he could mold me into what he wanted me to be, I was pretty disillusioned. I was seeing a (male) therapist during the divorce who summed up my feelings on men in two words: "Men suck!" That was a very accurate statement.
I remember once saying that I wasn't getting married again until I was 30. I wanted to get myself straightened out before I got into another relationship. But after a couple years I found myself dating again and I re-married at 26. I brought two kids with me into the marriage.
After being raised as a Marine brat I did something I never imagined doing: I married a Marine! It's an entirely different thing being a military brat versus being a military spouse. As a kid I didn't like the constant moving. (I went to 14 schools from Kindergarten through 12th grade! In all fairness, only 10 of those can be blamed on the military, though. That brought me most of the way through 7th grade, when my parents divorced.) As an adult, I hated the fact that the military owned my husband. I felt like the mistress who got what the wife (the government) didn't take first. Oh yeah, and I still hated moving. Fortunately we only did it every three years.
Finally after almost 11 years of marriage my husband and I decided that he should take early retirement. After a lot of stressing about trying to find a new job, we realized that the correct path God wanted us to take was for my husband to return to school and get a Master's degree. We moved so he could attend the University of Utah.
In our 12 years of marriage, we've added to our family. We have four additional kids on earth and one angel baby, our son Hyrum, who we lost at 16 weeks gestation.
A family of 8 can get kind of crazy at times. But that's our life, and over time God is molding me. He's helping me heal from my past and learn a new way to be. He's brought so much healing and growth into my life. I know that He will continue to do so.
And that is the point of this blog, to share the things that God has done for me and taught me. I'm still learning and I have a feeling that there's still a lot more for me to learn. I hope to be able to gracefully make the changes I need to make. I also hope that by sharing the things I've learned and am still learning, that it will bless the lives of others.
My word for 2016 is "transformation". Like the huge transformation a caterpillar has to make to become a butterfly, I hope that my transformation results in something just as beautiful. I hope you'll join me on my journey and find the courage to make your own transformative journey if necessary.
<3,
Brooke
The Beginning
So... I've been feeling like I need to start a blog for months now. I feel like I need to share my journey. Not that I think my life is so interesting that everyone wants to know all about it, but that I need to share where I've come from and how I've been able to move into a better place. Maybe it will be the encouragement that someone else needs to be able to improve their own life as well. At least that's my hope.
Come with me on the journey. We can elevate each other to new heights!
<3,
Brooke
Come with me on the journey. We can elevate each other to new heights!
<3,
Brooke
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