Looking Toward the New Year!

12. Faith
Happy New Year!!! As we look at the new year we need to focus on a few things if we really want to heal this next year. Get ready to leave the panic and anxiety behind!
Don't get overwhelmed - Don't work on everything at once these are only things to keep in the back of your mind! One Step at a Time.

Gotta Have Faith!
No matter what you believe or follow you have to have some sort of faith. I truly believe that when you are going through these rough spots of life you really need to surround yourself with supportive people, and deepen your faith.

At one point in my healing I was so alone. I felt no one had ever gone through what I had, felt as I did, or really be able to help me. I did feel as if there was a trigger to make me feel better. I never realized that it was a whole flight of stairs.

I often looked for that trigger - maybe this book, I'll paint the walls, quit my job, get new friends, stop seeing my friends, hide out, go to church. For me one Sunday I was flipping through the channels and I came across Joel Osteen here in Houston at the Lakewood Church. It's a huge church with a large following. I kept it on the station and he seemed to be talking to me. He was really letting me know that all was not lost and I could come out on top. Every week I became obsessed with this program, I was in such need. I was completely broken.

I had a long talk with my family and decided that we needed to start regularly attending a local church. I was sure that they would hit the trigger and I would be "all better". I do remember sitting in church the first six months just bawling. I am sure everyone thought I was nuts. I was just so weak. I don't think that trigger ever went off only because I started attending church, but I do know that it instilled hope for me. Hope that I was not alone in my daily walk, and that it would all be okay.

How is your faith? Do you think you could hand over your troubles to a higher power? Remember it's a staircase, small steps!!!

Want to feel better? Commit to faith. Download the Daily Healing Journal in the Egg Printables to help you keep you on track.

Wishing you peaceful thoughts today,
Amy

Quote of the Day

"When you have come to the edge Of all light that you know And are about to drop off into the darkness Of the unknown, Faith is knowing One of two things will happen: There will be something solid to stand on or You will be taught to fly" Patrick Overton