Inspiration comes from a place beyond our knowledge and
intellect. We can always tell by the
energy we feel in your bodies, the expression on our faces, and the lightness
of our spirits once we’ve been inspired. It is as if all the cares and burdens
we carry are lifted and moved far away from us, even if it’s just for a
moment. Inspiration makes us feel the overwhelming
Love that we so desperately long for!
Inspiration comes from God.
So, why is it so difficult to find inspiration when we need
it? I can only speak for myself. I am an inspiration addict. I feel empty without it. I look for it in the sky, in the birds, in
the children, in a stranger at the mall; but, just like an addict, I am chasing
a pipe dream. I am looking for the same
high that I received from my last point of contact with it. It’s sad to say, but that is a hopeless
pursuit. What I’ve found is that it is only when I am in my most relaxed and
confident states of being that the magic happens. Visions come, words and phrases evolve, and
inspiration is evident when I just flow and allow it to come to me.
Inspiration also comes when I am freely serving others like
in those moments I see a child needing a hug and I allow that child to melt in
my arms, or when I’m able to help a stranger in need. Whenever we inspire others, we too are
inspired. However, as women, we are
masters of performance and fulfilling our obligations. We do our due diligence and complete the
duties assigned, because we’ve been taught it is what we are “supposed” to
do. When we do these things because of
duty, they don’t have the same effect on the recipient or the giver as they do
when done out of love and inspiration. Good works are fine and most times
necessary, but the problem occurs when at the end of it all, we do not
experience love, fulfillment, and inspiration.
In fact, we may even feel tired, used, angry, and resentful. These don’t just rob us of inspiration, but
they can place us so far in the negative that it feels nearly impossible to at
least get back to ground zero (the nonchalant feeling).
Here’s the problem:
When we don’t start from a place of inspiration we won’t end at
inspiration. It’s time to understand why
we do what we do beyond the idea that “this is what I am supposed to do.” For example, I feel it is my obligation to
take care of my children, and some days I am simply too tired to fulfill my
responsibility; so, I become fussy about every little thing and even begin acting
very selfish and nasty while vying for my right to be. Well, if I’d just take “one” moment and ask, “Why
do I enjoy and love being a mother?” and look around at the children and ask, “Why
do I love that child so much?”, my whole attitude would shift. My “duty” would then become my “pleasure.”
Instead of saying, “I have to…” I would say “I get to…” In those moments I am
not chasing inspiration or obligation, I am just allowing myself to be inspired
by my own “real truth.”
Women, take time for you!!!
Get away, rest well, meditate, pray, read, and just be. Take time daily to do just a couple of those
things and inspiration (the feeling love) will pop all throughout your days, in
the most unpredictable ways and moments.
We must be intentional about finding inspiration, not by chasing after
it like a dog chasing its tale, but by making room for it through our daily “God
time” and “me time”.
Lord, my prayer today is that my sister reading this
realizes that YOU freely give inspiration and that it is Your desire for her to
hear and receive from You. I pray that my
sister makes a commitment to love and inspire her family by first committing to
herself to create room for you to overwhelm her with inspiration, to feel the
empty places of their lives with you more of You, and to open her heart to the
love that is already inside and all around her.
Let her know there’s no escaping YOUR Love! I sincerely ask, Father, that
You engrain deep etches in their psyche the thought that You love her so much
and that she can rest in your arms at any moment she needs to refuel herself
throughout the day. May she be inspired
even at this very moment!!! Amen!
#IAmMySistersKeeper
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