Recently I was listening to the news and I came across Letitia James talking about a latest conflict that she was facing.
And as she addressed the press she said something that hit me profoundly and I want to share that today.
What she said was,
I am a proud woman of faith and I know that faith and fear cannot share the same space.
And so today I am not fearful.
I am fearless and as my faith teaches me,
No weapon formed against me shall prosper.
I was really moved by this statement.
It got me to think about my own faith and what I believed in.
I've been having trouble lately with my faith and just feeling like I have any impact in the world around me.
Like others I have been feeling scared,
Unsettled,
Disillusioned,
Dismayed.
So this got me to think about my own faith and what I believed in.
I looked up the word faith in different dictionaries to see if I really understood it and most agreed that it was a complete trust or confidence in something or someone.
A strong belief in a power greater than ourselves and a strongly held spiritual belief or theory.
After reading that I felt that I do have faith and at times it's really strong.
I do believe in something higher than myself.
Whether it's community,
Higher power or entity,
I do believe in there's something else going on.
The past I've been able to lean on my faith to help me gain clarity and strength in difficult situations.
So I started to wonder what was my faith now?
Where is my belief in a higher power?
And you know what can I do to help our future?
What can I do to help my own self and my own personal stuff going on in my life?
So this caused me to re-examine kind of where my faith was.
I had heard differently in many ways that faith and fear cannot share the same space.
Originally I had heard that fear and faith cannot coexist.
This is really hard for me to visualize because I thought I could have both fear and faith in the same spot.
But the way she put it made it feel like faith can just push out my fear.
I have also heard that fear and faith share the same energy so why not choose faith?
A client recently came into my office wearing a t-shirt that said faith over fear.
So I've been receiving a lot of messages to re-examine where I am in my own faith system.
Letitia goes on and says that so as of today I'm not fearful I am fearless and as faith teaches me no weapon formed against me shall prosper.
To that that is a total change of paradigm.
I need to get back to I need to be back to being fearless and not to be fearful of things around me and not to get give power to fear or the people who are trying or presenting fear to me.
I can stand up.
I can keep my feet firmly on the ground.
I can be planted as strong as a mighty oak.
I can stand strong with my roots deep in the ground.
I don't have to hold on to fear.
That's a choice.
I don't have to be anxious.
I can if I choose to but I don't have to.
I can choose faith.
I can make choices.
I can choose where I want my mind and my heart to be.
And this is also important to me because when my energy is fear-based my energy stays rooted in fear.
So anywhere I put my focus I will send my energy out to.
It will go to dark places but when I can change my focus and focus on the good in the world I can feel myself change.
This changing is important.
It's important me to stand strong unwavering and know that the power behind me is greater than the challenge in front of me.
And to know where focus goes energy flows.
I know it's hard to have faith these days and be grounded when there's so many around us who don't see anything beyond what's going on in their immediate environment.
It's hard to help others when empathy is lacking and they can't extend it to others.
You're trying to understand them.
I remind myself that faith without works is dead.
I am a woman of faith and to put one foot in front of the other and take steps to strengthen my spiritual belief and faith to expand my empathy and compassion to others is really important.
To understand where they're coming from.
I can get caught up in anger and fear disbelief disillusionment too but when I do remember my faith I'm able to take steps to be more centered.
I can perform the works needed to build faith.
I'm able to take steps to be centered to have my feet on the floor to be grounded like the mighty oak extending my branches all over.
To extend my branches all over to the world around me and build beauty.
To be a woman faith doesn't mean never being afraid or never being scared or never being angry.
It means that we can gather our energy more quickly.
We can gather ourselves more quickly.
Focus our energy center ourselves to be strong and mighty and take one step towards the sunshine.
Remember there is something beyond us that is powerful.
To stay full of faith so we can be fearless and go on.
That gives us the strength to do what we need to do to go on and fight the good fight.
Namaste.
