The Grace to Keep Moving

Season 3, Episode 2: The Grace to Keep MovingWelcome to Season 3 Episode 2. This podcast was inspired by my academy students, who asked me on several different occasions, “What do you do when you’re going through trauma and you’re trying to heal, but you still have to live? How do you do that?”I would like to talk about two different, equally devastating experiences, and how having a true purpose, changed the way I moved forward.Seeing my mom struggle and suffer through her battle with breast cancer was very difficult. At the age of 25, I was struggling in my own life, trying to figure out who I was, what I wanted to do and where I was supposed to be. My purpose had not been defined at the time my Mom died. I was scared, I was scattered, and I didn’t have a purpose. I just knew that I wanted to do more than what I was doing and that caused me to feel unsettled, sad and hopeless. I worked as a flight attendant, passing out snacks on an airplane and I was drowning in despair; shattered and scattered. When you don’t know what your purpose is, you are constantly searching for something and it usually ends up leaving you feeling empty and angry. When my mom died, I felt like God let me down. I thought I had been doing exactly what I was called to do, and yet God let this happen to my mom. I relived the nightmare of her final days and it hindered my healing. I kept reliving the same nightmare and I couldn’t move forward. When my mom died, I didn’t have a purpose. It took a long time for me to shift my thinking and to stop grieving the loss.The difference in the seasons, the way that I dealt with the pain from my mother’s death compared to my miscarriage were vastly different. During my miscarriage, my Academy had just launched. I had an Angelic encounter where the Lord told me to start the Feminine Woman’s Academy. I was called out to train women in etiquette and femininity so that the Lord could use them (and me) to raise up a world of Esthers. This purpose was a huge part of my healing because I had a new focus. Yes, the miscarriage was devastating, but I had a purpose that God called me to do, and I was driven to do what the Lord had called me to do and it was a part of my healing. I poured out my pain and built myself up in Scriptures. I gave all of my pain and despair to God.Here are four ways to gain the grace to keep moving:[7:28] Know your true purpose. Please let me pray over you to help you find your true purpose so that you will find clarity and peace.[9:12] Feed yourself on the scriptures. Read scriptures that build up your strength and your hope. [16:29] Take a break, but don’t stop. You don’t have go at the same pace. Take a break but to do the same things you were doing before. Don’t isolate and alienate because you don’t want to miss your blessings. [19:20] Refresh yourself. Do something for yourself that makes you feel a live and new. Treat yourself to something you may not do for yourself very often.Trials will come but you can be completely free from the grief and the sadness. God will give you the grace to keep moving if you just ask Him!Please Tag, rate and review this episode and listen next week for Listener shout outs!References:The Amanda Ferguson Show, Season 3, Episode 1: How God Healed me from the Grief of my Miscarriage in 3 DaysThe Amanda Ferguson Show, Season 1, Episode 1: How Grief and Depression Helped Me Pivot in LifeSubscribe & ReviewHave you subscribed to The Amanda Ferguson podcast? If not, I would encourage you to do that today. I would not like for you to miss any of the episodes coming up this season. I will be adding bonus episodes and if you are not subscribed there might be a possibility that you’ll miss out on them. Click here to subscribe in iTunes to have the podcast downloaded to your device every week.I would love to stay connected with you! If my podcast is blessing your life, I would appreciate if you left me a review over on iTunes. Select the Ratings & Reviews and write a review. I will be reading your reviews and do not forget to comment on what was your favorite part of the podcast.For more of The Amanda Ferguson Show, you can also follow me on Instagram and Facebook @mrsamandaferguson. Thank you so much!Also, to be the first to receive email alerts, subscribe to amandasclub.com. Thank you so much!