Day 151 - Wake Up!

📖Daily Reading

 Isaiah 30-33

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Join me on my morning walk as we rise and shine together by walking through the Bible daily and learn a practical applicable coaching nugget from the ultimate life coach - our creator (whatever that means to you). No judgement zone here, all are welcome, we are all on a spiritual journey because we are after all spiritual beings having a human experience.

 

📝 Reflection 

 Isaiah 30: 15

  This is what the Sovereign Lord, the Holy One of Israel says: “Only in returning to me and resting in me will you be saved. In quietness and confidence is your strength. But you would have none of it.”

Per usual, God’s ways are not our ways and in fact they are often paradoxical to our ways. In order to be fully awake to our higher selves and God’s higher ways we have to rest, get still and quiet. Say what??  I know, but it is true. This is widely known, but easier said than done. All of the worlds religions, philosophies and wise sages tell us that we must meditate, pray, breathe, get quiet.. this is the ‘way’ to be fully conscious, awake and aware. 

We live in a physical world, in a physical body with our five physical senses, but there is so much more that we can see if we close our eyes 👀 and get still. Even Jesus role modeled this for us. If there was ever a human who walked this earth who made could legit say ‘I don’t need to do this’ BUT didn’t, then maybe just maybe we should consider it too.  It is one of the most recommended things we can do according to all of the ‘experts’ for as far back as we can tell and yet we resist, we think it is weird, or a waste of time. We find all kinds of reasons why we don’t have the time, or it doesn’t work for us, or put it off. 

When we get quiet and return to our source and creator we can rest, we can get confidence and strength - we can fully wake up to the full experience of our life not just the physical worldly aspect of it. When our survival brain is caught up in the busyness and the business of the world it doesn’t give space for our higher executive brain to come online, much less get in charge. 

This makes me think of The Matrix movies again. When Morpheus presents Neo with the choice of the red pill or the blue pill, asleep or awake? Interestingly when you know there is a choice and you are ‘awake’ to this, then the choice is an illusion - or is it?  Many wake up a little and then hit the snooze button again and go back to sleep. Have you ever had that experience of a lucid dream and have a hard time waking up but in the dream you are trying to wake up but you can’t?? Just me?  I think many of us start to ‘wake up’ and get it, but for various reasons may slip back into ‘sleep’. 

Some of the reasons are cultural conditioning, family of origin beliefs, fear of being thought of as weird or different, confusion, or just plain fear of what it all means to ‘wake up’.  I stayed in the ‘in-between’ sleep and awake for a long time for a lot of these same reasons and used my wine o’clock habit to keep hitting the snooze button. How about you? Does any of this resonate?

✍🏼Daily Journal Prompt 

 Are you awake? Does this resonate?

📖Tomorrows Reading

 Isaiah 34-37

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