Day 165 - Pregnancy Code

📖Daily Reading

 Isaiah 66

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📝 Reflection 

 

Isaiah 66: 7-9

   “Before the birth pains even begin, Jerusalem gives birth to a son. Who has ever seen anything as strange as this? Who ever heard of such a thing? Has a nation every been born in a single day? Has a country ever come forth in a mere moment? But by the time Jerusalem’s birth pains begin, her children will be born. Would I ever bring this nation to the point of birth and then not deliver it?” Asks the Lord, “No! I would never keep this nation from being born,” says your God. 

 

God is so good. I just love how this concept and analogy was used after discussing how commitment is a decision. When you commit to something you are becoming pregnant with possibility. You have planted a seed of an idea of what you could be if you commit and stick with something, then you engage with and trust the process even when you don’t feel like it. Women are fortunate in understanding this concept at a more fundamental level because we get to go through the literal process. But anyone can understand even without this first hand experience.

So lets dive a bit deeper. I used the word code with it, intentionally. I think it is more that just a principle and a law, it is an agreement we enter into with ourselves and others. It is similar to what we talked about yesterday, we need a support and a system when we commit. The seed is planted, we are going on a journey of becoming. The possibility starts to become a reality day by day, moment by moment. 

Isaiah 66: 22-23 “As surely as my new heavens and earth will remain, so will you always be my people, with a name that will never disappear, “says the Lord. All humanity will come to worship me from week to week, and from month to month. 

Pregnancy is suddenly, then slowly, slowly and then suddenly again- the birth happens and possibility has transformed into reality. During pregnancy you and those around you enter into a code - an agreement. Things need to be different for a time in order to nurture this new life, this possibility and bring it forth into being. You give yourself permission to treat yourself with TLC, you expect the same support and treatment from others. You nourish yourself differently because it isn’t just you, you are responsible for another being coming into its own beingness.. In this case you currently, new you after this process will be birthed. 

We need to treat ourselves the same way when we are embarking on a quest to become the next version of ourselves. It takes time, energy, focus, understanding, nurturing, doing things differently, priorities being realigned for this stage of ‘the game’. We all are willing to give extra grace and support to a pregnant person, because we value the gift of life and its potential. We are in the process of being born and being reborn, some of us more than others. It is what God calls us to, new life in Him. It is why baptism is a symbolic death and rebirth.

Breaking our egoic ways of being and dying to our habits and coping strategies that are not in alignment with this new version of ourselves that we know we can become is hard work. With this analogy many have expectations that they can just skip the uncomfortable, time consuming, pregnancy and labor part just decide and be reborn and new again.  There is a cycle to life being created. We often just think we can ‘pull up our bootstraps’ and ‘suck it up buttercup’ and do it alone. Pregnancy is a vulnerable time where we need ALL the support, understanding and cheerleading we can get!! We need others on board who will make sure we are getting our rest, extra nutrition, reminders that this part is just temporary and it is worth it!! 

Also, we must keep in mind that right before the miracle of birth, there are labor pains. But maybe that will be for another day..

Before I sign off, the analogy of a door🚪being opened also came to mind. When we embark on a journey of possibility as free will beings we get to choose which door we open. We can walk through the door that is all about becoming a better self for the self and in and of ourselves. Which is good. But I believe we have a better choice and it can be great. Through and with partnering with God, I believe is a requirement for the great. Will you choose the door that leads to the great possibilities that He promises if we will say yes and allow His super to be paired with our natural? 

Ps. I would like to take a moment to say, if you have voluntarily signed up to enter into this process because you have a strong desire to work towards becoming a better you, you are a courageous warrior!! It takes a lot of courage and humility to have the self awareness to look in the mirror and say ‘you can be better’, ‘you deserve to be better’. Future you needs you to have the courage for you to decide to commit and stick with it. She/he needs you. That future you will also help change his/her immediate world and the world at large, because you had the courage to do the hard work to live more consciously and on purpose for the greater good!

✍🏼Daily Journal Prompt 

How does your Ego keep you in the down and in the dark? Are you willing to see? Are you willing to humble yourself and try another way that doesn't EGO (edge God out)?

📖Tomorrows Reading

Jeremiah 1-3

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