If You Don't Have This Person In Your Life, You might Be In Trouble!
If you don't have THIS person in your life, you might be in trouble!
When you are done reading this….go to LOVEBLOCKERS FACEBOOK and write the name of the person who does this for you in the comments. Tag them….Share it…honor them.
Shortly after the worst day of my life thus far and what felt like devastation. I was in total depression, looking out my second story bedroom window staring at the stars. I was saying "What am I going to do?" This phrase desperately repeated in my head. Then my phone rang. This "friend angel" started talking. She intuitively knew my state of mind since she had been with me through my crisis from the first moment. My thinking was this. My life is over, I can never look at anyone again, I'll never leave this room, I have no purpose now, all I've worked for is gone, there is no fixing this. Despair is the only word (yes, I know there are MUCH worse things going on in the world but I was totally self-focused, traumatized by my own doing) to describe that moment (okay months ). My state of mind was bad. This love reaching friend started to tell me that I was going to do great things in my life. She was telling me I would look back and laugh at this someday (hmmm.... optimism on steroids). She was brainstorming these big possibilities for me. She was telling me this happened for a reason and it was going to be a good one. She even told me that she knew someday I would be on Oprah and she asked if she could be my "Gail" (Chuckle here). Okay so she is a tad optimistic but it doesn't matter. She kept telling me about the great purpose I would have and I started to believe her. The thing is, she wasn't pumping me up with lies because she actually believed this. She was pounding me with hope and love at a time I couldn't receive it, or so I thought. I think back now and I know that I was receiving it. I needed it. I had none to give myself. The point is, she challenged my poor thinking and broke through my shame LOVEBLOCKER with love and hope (Well I'm still working through that but I've made a lot of progress). I started to see a pathway to the future over time.
A HOPE FRIEND will do the following for you:
- Provide hope, love, and encouragement and challenge you to break down your LOVEBLOCKERS (anger, fear, mistrust, shame, judgments etc.....)
- Support you instead of ripping you down just to build themselves up!
- Reach out their hand and treat you the way they would like to be treated AS IF they had the same problem (sound familiar?........golden rule).
- Help you see a pathway to the future you just can't see at the time
- Challenge your poor thinking
- Have the courage to SHOW UP!
Hope is powerful. There is nothing more challenging yet empowering than to change our way of thinking. We limit ourselves. We can be our own hope killer. We need each other as ONE to keep our thinking disciplined, moving forward and to boost our own power. GOD uses others to help us and wants us to help others! Are you open to it? Are you receiving opportunities to be used for good? Are you connected?
We need to promote good, promote kindness, promote love and promote the greatness outside our self-centered concerns (yes, for me this is God).
Do you have a hope friend? Don’t forget to write the name of the friend who does this for you in the comments on FACEBOOK and tag them. It will make their day!
Think of a recent time that the right person showed up at the right time……this was NOT a coincidence. It was a synchronicity! Please tell us about it in the comments below.
If you agree that we need to challenge our thinking, shred our LOVEBLOCKERS and be a part of a world that is not self centered but "other" centered, please SHARE. Even if you just go back to the FACEBOOK page and click "like", that just allows others to see the post and it helps spread the love and hope! I hope you'll join me in spreading the message of hope! Sometimes we need help seeing the pathway to the future that is right in front of us.
Consider yourself fired up to change the way we think,
Cindy
