Power Prayer Girls ~ Thanksful Thursday ~ Please Don’t Hug Me

Have you ever felt that if someone hugged you, you just might fall apart? Or, if you really got still enough, you might really be able to feel yourself  feel?

Sometimes busyness keeps us so busy we don’t get in touch with our feelings and our life.

For the last several weeks Winters and I have been working like mad men putting the final touches on the websites and waiting on shipments of books to arrive.  We have written flyers to promote the new books and created new bookmarks as well.  I have been working on a six-week series for a Pure Empowerment seminar to start in September as well.  We are tired to say the least.

We have spent hours sending emails and contacting churches about speaking, teaching and sharing our books and message with the world.  Yes, the world. Two little people in Newnan, Georgia, are trying to make a difference in the world for Christ. But too often we find ourselves waiting for someone to return our e-mail or call us back. Sometimes you need help to change the world.  I am sure you can relate.

So on this Thankful Thursday, I find myself both excited and exhausted.  Trying to make a difference requires commitment and dedication. It also requires us to know when to rest.

One way I love to rest and restore is through yoga. Many of you know I love yoga.  It use to freak my sweet little Godly mother out and I had to always remind her I was not doing some crazy meditation to some guru but to our Lord.  I think she finally got over it, but it was not easy for her.

Recently, I found out a group meets at the club house in my neighborhood.  I have been attending it and I love it!  I love how I feel and I love how my body responds to yoga. It works for me! Remember – efficient and effective.

But the strangest thing has happened since I have been attending.  Now mind you I usually do videos in my house with the Sons of Thunder wildly running around upstairs or in and out the front door.  I am relaxed and experiencing inner peace, but just so much.  Right?

But Monday I was in these contorted positions and poses like the Downward Dog, Warrior 1 and the Child’s Pose and I began to tear up. I couldn’t help but wonder what in the world was going on. Then yesterday the same thing happened.
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So I ask my beautiful long-legged yoga instructor, What is going on with me?  I had my own suspicions but I wanted her take on it.  I know these past few years have been hard and this past year was probably the hardest, but crying in yoga class? Really are you kidding me?

But sure enough I was pretty much dead on and my suspicions were right. Remember,  life keeps us busy.  Life keeps us distracted and as I said last week, there is very little time to find inner peace.  But in the moment of peaceful exercise and relaxation we hear the hurt of our heart, we are reminded to let go of the regrets, past disappointment and rejection.  We feel  more deeply because we are still. We are in the moment and in the moment we are present with all the good, the bad and sometimes even the ugly.  And when someone reaches out to you with a hug or a kind gesture, we feel it deeply.

We often feel whatever we need to feel and what we are often too busy to feel or what we really do not want to feel or even remember. That is a long thought but so true.  Sometimes in the hug of another we are reminded we will never feel the hug of one we loved so dearly, like our mother, our father, our sister or friend.  A simple hug can mean so much more.

In yoga our bodies are in these strong, wide open stances and all hurt and pain as my teacher explained are not all bound up and held tightly, but released!  When my mother died, I began to soon ache in almost every part of my body almost all the time.  I knew it was the stress and the grief.  I have worked hard to release that pain.  But yesterday as I lay quietly on the floor in a room full of women I was alone.  Alone in my own moment.  I am on my own journey. As a wife, a mother, sister, a daughter-in-law, a friend and I am also a grieving child. I was reminded to let go, move on, move through and just be …

My  journey includes a desire to change the world for Christ through teaching speaking and writing, but in the  moment on the mat I reminded myself that I must care for my soul too. I have to find times of restoration and so do you dear sweet sister.

On this Thankful Thursday I pray you will find time to care for your soul, your hurt and your life.  Show yourself compassion, mercy and grace the same amount you usually impart it to others.  And remember that sometimes we must simply be still.

Be blessed and encourage abundantly on this Thankful Thursday as we are thankful for healing, however it comes to us.  Whether it be a hug, a word of encouragement or on a yoga mat in a room full of women with silence and tears!