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<\/p>\nI prayed for guidance this morning.\u00a0 Prayed to be filled with understanding and the discernment needed to see God’s truth in a world of deception.<\/p>\n
I prayed and was guided to my grandmother’s message– found in this throwback post from 2012–a message so profound that I paused while writing it, unable to capture the words. A message of God’s truth, powerful enough to block out all deception.<\/p>\n
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The gloves are coming off…<\/p>\n
August 30, 2012<\/p>\n
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It was while scrubbing my shower this morning that the thought flowed through me, “There are many people on the other side who love you very much.” I then thought of all of those on the other side who do love me. I saw my Grandpa’s face and felt empowered by the army of loved ones buoying me up each day.<\/p>\n
My phone rang and after a nice conversation with my dearest love I lay back and thought more about my army of loved ones. I thought of my Grandma and smiled as I remembered a time she showed me the burn scars on her fingers and said, “These really suck.” She was in the early stages of Alzheimer’s and my sister and I giggled at hearing her use the word “suck”.<\/p>\n
Remembering that story I whispered, “You understand don’t you Grandma? You understand what it feels like to be a woman. To be so hard on yourself and to continuously believe that something about you sucks.”<\/p>\n
It was then that her love washed over me and I sobbed in her warm embrace.<\/p>\n
I opened my eyes and marveled as the ceiling above me seemed to expand higher and higher opening to a feeling of vast limitlessness. Then I heard my Grandma say, “If you had any idea of who you really are, you would never waiver. If you KNEW who you really are…”<\/p>\n
I sobbed and trembled as her words penetrated my soul and I knew at that moment that I was sent here for a great purpose, a purpose worth fighting for.<\/p>\n
So I will fight. I will fight everyday to overcome the deceptions of this world. Deceptions that put such life-shattering, debilitating false value on things that are of no worth. I will fight to not become ensnared by it. I will fight to walk uprightly with boldness and power. And I will fight to always remember who I really am–because apparently I’m pretty special.<\/p>\n
My Grandma told me so.<\/p>\n
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