Saturday, June 1, 2019

Mind, Body, Spirit

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The journey of discovering these areas often happens in the most unthinkable, unimaginable and often deepest and unwordable experiences. The very beginning journey of this often unison response will stem from a place of utter darkness within yourself, the deepest area of a pit that when down, searching for a light, seems impossible, yet the experiences are what will ultimately bring the human mind to a form of breaking, altering or as I have observed, a numbing, an emotional collision, numbing which is defined simply as depriving one of feeling or responsiveness. This awareness awakens the body and spirit, resulting in all three lining up to opening a very vast, deep inner place and results in a humbling outcome. When the attempt to express this alignment arrives knocking at your being, you have two choices. 1. You can attempt to avoid, pushing down the possibilty of the scenerios faced or 2. Reach inside to your true center, the heart,soul and spirit of you, and gather up all your fathomable numbness and embrace it. If choice one seems more enticing and welcoming then certainly it can be achieved, particularly because you have a choice, within us all we can reason, talk ourselves into making an experience tolerable or accepted, however, it's not a success or benefit in the ultimate outcome, why? Because you decieve yourself. This choice not only will be a disappointing and hurtful descent back to numbness, it may cross you into bitterness. As difficult as it is to embrace choice two, it ultimately will be your greatest and most admirable success journey, the results when aligned and united with all three of your inner workings, complete you, directing you into an awareness of total wholeness, this merging, different and uniquely yours results in really discovering your reasoning and guaranteeing that once you've arrived from the pit your never the same. You arise from a place indescribable to any other human, it resounds in discovering your wholeness in your creator, a spiritual awakening unlike any you may have had in your life. The truth of life experiences which bring us to our bottom, is compassionately designed to humble. To be humbled, is defined as this, lower (someone)in dignity or importance. This result produces to not look at yourself as above, but, lowered, to hold to the fagility of life itself, to be compassionate and selfless, see, to come to this point is to then respond to others in a completely diverse or non- society acceptable way, it's respectfully, to fall into Faith and arise with a hope. A light to shine within other dark corners of this life, to guide from hurts, healings, comforts, and attaining a gift, the blessing of reaching the Peace of God, the very essence of, Philippians 4:7, which is, "And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus." Guard your hearts and minds, see the body will be aligned then, it will have taken refuge and gained strength in the supernatural or spiritual places of our wholeness, our creator and very image we are molded from. Realigning the Three is a comfort just as life is in and of itself. When we discover our own brokenness and need of saving then and only can we reach back to the next one and humbly take hold and love through the experiences. We can offer a simple word, prayer, hug or a silent offering of just being present, often our efforts become useless, but our silence can maintain and disperse comforts towards our own hurts and that of others. The hope is in you, the faith is in the unforseeable possibilities, the rejoicing is in the waiting, because once you have gone through the transforming of yourself, you will never be the same, your light is brighter for others to see, the beauty of having your Savior awaken within you, and begin His radiating out into this very world, full of the experiences that bring each one to a point of discovery. Whether you are young, mid aged or old when this possibilty results, know that through it and with it all results in the greatest gift, LOVE. Biblically, Love is expressed as worded; 1 Corinthians 13:4-8 (NKJV) 4 Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; 5 does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; 6 does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; 7 bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. 8 Love never fails. But whether there are prophecies, they will fail; whether there are tongues, they will cease; whether there is knowledge, it will vanish away. Our greatest awareness is Love, no greater blessing in this side of life than Love, and the trueness of the everlasting forever we are promised, One glad morning, when this life is over. Embrace today, Lean into you, and shine outward, Love you and others passionately. Blessings and Light, By:Dawn Ferguson
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Friday, October 19, 2018

Bud to bloom: The struggles are blessings.

Quotes, encouragement and Life Lived
Growth:Seasons

TGIF blessings!
The flower(s) that are bound within the bud, once bursted through into the bloom, or the butterfly's first flight, brings to mind a continual growth within myself, and if you have been growing through a season I hope this gives you a beautiful peace, your growing, giving yourself the blessings to grow in the human struggles, that ultimately are the blessings. 
Closer in walk with the Lord, He shows up every single moment, never failing and loves you just where you are, what a comfort that can be...have a glorious day knowing you are infinitely LOVED.
#strugglesareblessings
#orchidsfullblooms #butterflies #growth #John3:16-17

Bud to Bloom


Monday, June 25, 2018

Finding Balance: Sketching and journalling

Finding Balance

Finding a simple, yet calming way to express myself in art and words I confide in all Faith.
Find comfort: Here.
                                      John 15:5


Matt 6:26-27

Monday, January 8, 2018

New Year, New Journey, New Within Me: Discovery


Within Me

       Discovery: the action or process of discovering or being discovered.

"the discovery of the body"

                                                       synonymsFindinglocationuncovering, unearthing. 

      I have found myself, in a new year, another new growth which is in all honesty a difficult season to express in words, as each time I plan to write my emotions out, I discover the inability to do this and retreat back to what has been a pretty constant in my journey, music. 
       I lost my Mom, my best friend, in the month of November, on the 15th day of 2017, putting that down in black and white again, seems very foriegn because I have in all honesty always had my mother in my life, daily, skip a few for illnesses, obligations, trips etc. But consistently and ongoing was my mother's presence. I grew up with my mom, and 6 months after I married my Husband, Chad in 2001, we began caregiving, not in full depth, but in soon developed into this as my mother had suffered a mental break down, many times In my journey I tried to understand how this happens, why, and the endless unknowns attached, but, we grew into it and did the best human capable guided care within us. The journey lasted a beautiful 15 1/2 years, and within 2 weeks of diagnosis my mother left this life into her eternal from pancreatic cancer, of which was a complete unknown and shock upon discovery. So discovery  became an association to my new journey, but how I was to do this was multiple areas of fumbling and an extreme amount of loving grace, I was off guard, sideswiped, but, still fully faith filled and aware, wrapped in family daily needs, emotions, daily personal and wife, mother duties of love, all while sorting through what just happened. I honestly discovered within myself, God had took again into his beauty and astounding Love for me direction, mind you that is all I attribute the many days to, the Lord and His direction for me. I leaned into in the first of many years my husband, I am one to" console, fix, encourage", but, it was reversed and I was the one in need, this, this is where I discovered a part of me, not an especially hidden part, but, a part that unknown to me I kept, I soothed, I comforted, I said get up, get going, motivational speaker of my own being, but she was for the first time in so many moons I can't recall last, distraught, confused, aware, tangled up, but, screaming aloud all at once, but only my being and God could hear her mumblings, It was now that I revisit "in fog" fog from discovering the depths of self, in loss, in love, in emotions, in Faith, in funtionality, in me, while {autonomously} Functional. I had several bouts with crying, (happy, joy,greif, gratitude) as well as lapses in my "usual" self, the keep it together me, I had to discover another area, journey, no longer as a daughter, caregiver, friend, contender in rights or wrongs, I was me, like most discover after so far into adulthood, post marriage,childbirth,motherhood, family life, A section was removed, and then re-introduced with loss of my mother, to gain myself, strangely, The discovery has been uncomfortable,unknown, but all the same welcomed, I am picking my pieces up that I know were scattered in the season of discovery, each part, claimed, placed and held, but in the midst of it all God, God lovingly directed my "fog" by placement of individuals during, within,after and ongoing in mending myself from the part of me, my mom, that faded into a new me, I know I carry My Mom within my heart, I have been given another benefit to savoring life, taking it all in and giving thanks. I am not sure what discoveries I may find myself on, but, knowing that the Lord is faithful in all our times, that is the discovery again of His Love, Mercy, Amazing Grace, that I look upon in the hearts of the ones He gave me for such a season as this in my personal life, my career life, my opportunity to grow,share and encourage someone else, loss in all forms hurts deeply, it produces within a need for support and one to willingly accept it, embrace it and discover how much we are Loved, in so many forms, in many hearts, if you or someone you love finds themselves at a place of discovery, in the many forms, take heart, All you or the loved will ever need is completely and in full entirety provided, miraculously and beautifully blessed by the ONE and ONLY, I AM, Who Holds it all, us all in His Amazing Hands.
Dedicated: Music= Comfort
Mom


                                                                           Lord
Chad { encouraged me to find }
Your amazing song I carry
Nigel {Together}

Wednesday, October 18, 2017

To Begin: Refreshed in Confidence

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I love pictures..I confess I love taking pictures, I can't  have enough. Honestly I love seeing things that draw me, which is almost any structure, tree,flower etc. that has some unique character and then capturing it in my camera to then share with you!Please visit and let me know what you think of the photos. I really appreciate you stopping in! Take Care.       
   
 
Refreshed
 
 
                Fall: When renewal seems to begin for myself and many others I am sure, there is just something about taking the old, worn, or just overdone things and releasing them. I am confident in the letting go and finding strength in my lessons which ultimately turn into  a greater blessing. The moment your discoveries over the year have starting opening you into the new being your meeting, similar to the butterfly, I have found a love of the quote by Maya Angelo,
 
“We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.”
Maya Angelou

Respectfully, I love this statement, more over in times of change we really discover the true nature of ourselves in the beautiful release.
 
I hope that you as myself, find the peace in finding your own butterfly circumstance and grow into the new, beautiful being you can be daily.
 
 

Bible Verses About Refreshing

Bible verses related to Refreshing from the King James Version (KJV) by Relevance

 
 

 
Acts 3:19-21 - Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord;   (Read More...)

Psalms 16:8-11 - I have set the LORD always before me: because [he is] at my right hand, I shall not be moved.   (Read More...)

Psalms 23:3 - He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake.

Romans 13:11 - And that, knowing the time, that now [it is] high time to awake out of sleep: for now [is] our salvation nearer than when we believed.

John 16:13 - Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, [that] shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come.

Proverbs 3:7-8 - Be not wise in thine own eyes: fear the LORD, and depart from evil.   (Read More...)

John 20:31 - But these are written, that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing ye might have life through his name.

Jude 1:24 - Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present [you] faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy,

2 Timothy 3:1-5 - This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.   (Read More...)

Acts 3:19 - Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord;

1 John 1:9 - If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us [our] sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

https://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/Bible-Verses-About-Refreshing/

Sunday, December 4, 2016

Drawn in...

Drawn in....


So as it seems, it's been about a year since my last entry, this is the time of year that personally I reflect, recall the many seasons of my year. Multiple seasons which have shaped, broken, renewed and redirected my being has taken full front this year. Through it all, Humbly, I have found my whole peace only in the pure, complete reliance on My Lord. Many times, while in the season, he has lovingly taken me, guided, kept my mind just enough in the absolute of Him, to not fall over in exhaust,  frustration, sadness, multiple emotions we have, but when GOD is FRONT AND CENTER, the peace beyond human understanding...this, this is where I landed...and have now thankfully laid down in this place...no words, can truly describe this place, it is unique, custom designed, planned for just me, just for a time as this...I am so thankful to write this and know I can sit at His feet...and all the days, seasons &moments He ordained(s) for me are in His 👐.  If you are in need of full release...Lay it down, and put all your cares on Him...for He cares for you.

Amen




HILLSONG UNITED LYRICS "Oceans (Where Feet May Fail)"  
You call me out upon the waters The great unknown where feet may fail And there I find You in the mystery In oceans deep My faith will stand  And I will call upon Your name And keep my eyes above the waves When oceans rise My soul will rest in Your embrace For I am Yours and You are mine  Your grace abounds in deepest waters Your sovereign hand Will be my guide Where feet may fail and fear surrounds me You've never failed and You won't start now  So I will call upon Your name And keep my eyes above the waves When oceans rise My soul will rest in Your embrace For I am Yours and You are mine  [6x] Spirit lead me where my trust is without borders Let me walk upon the waters Wherever You would call me Take me deeper than my feet could ever wander And my faith will be made stronger In the presence of my Savior  Oh, Jesus, you're my God!  I will call upon Your name Keep my eyes above the waves My soul will rest in Your embrace I am Yours and You are mine 


Saturday, December 5, 2015

Holy Spirit

I blessedly found this video over 4 years ago, and from that day forward, I forever was changed in the depths of the beauty of our love connection to Christ...The Holy Bible is full of love stories for us.

If you watch this and feel anything proceed onward to the next link, find the book and GROW.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jF_x8dsvb_4

 http://crazylovebook.com/

Many Blessings