Honesty: The Healing Agent of Transformation

Break the silence of your past to begin a sound future.

For isolation and suppression are very toxic.

Al Pearson

     

This past weekend, I personally came into a greater understanding and deeper appreciation for Honesty which I call “The Healing Agent of Transformation.”  Too often in life many choose to remain burden by the weight of their past experiences that become a feeding ground for toxic waste such as fear, shame, regret, condemnation, and guilt, to name a few.  Please know that these waste materials can only stay concealed for a certain length of time.  Eventually somehow and someway, everything you have suppressed in your emotions will find its way to the surface of your life.  Although you may be verbally silent, your actions will speak very loud for you instead.

      With this LĪVE Moment I’ve come to set someone free!  Free from the incessant need to cover up, hide, isolate, and live life as if it is a perpetual masquerade ball.  The first step into your season of change that serves as the catalyst for living a transformed life is being honest with yourself! 

      One of the definitions I truly appreciate for the word honest is “freedom from fraud”.  Therefore, release yourself from the sin of self-deception.  This is pivotal to living a life of freedom from the toxicities of your past.  Willingly walking in self-deception is the road to greater degrees of darkness and confusion.  We all need some form of light in order to walk or even drive in the dark.  Therefore, your walk in the Light of Truth can begin by you simply being honest with yourself.

We can only give someone something we possess.

      Additionally, our relationships are established on the foundation of Truth when we individually awaken to the true condition of our own souls (mind, emotions, and will).  Subsequently, it’s imperative for us to stop looking out of the window with the false expectation that the circumstances of our lives would be better if everyone else involved in our life would change.  A life of transformation is predicated upon our willingness to look in the mirror and begin the transformation process by activating the catalyst of change within ourselves first! 

      As Coach Motivator Al Pearson states, “Transformation is the highest form of change.”  So today, I challenge you to begin stretching to the point of no return by facing a sometimes difficult dose of honesty.  Dismiss the fear that looms over your head!  Although a dose of honesty may initially be uncomfortable and downright painful, these fleeting moments of personal affliction cannot even compare to the lasting joy of personal freedom that lies on the other side.  Always remember:  “Honesty is your friend.”*  And similar to a mirror, a true friend will never lie to you!

*  Pastor Sheryl Brady.  Speaker.  “I’m Better; but, I’m Not There Yet!”.  Sermon at The Potter’s House North Dallas.  5 December 2011.

© 2011 Julianne Pearson

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Worth the Risk! by Julianne Pearson

In one particular season of my life, the suffocating grips of guilt and condemnation had their hold on my soul (mind, emotions, and will) like a vicious python.  Choices I had made in light of what I thought would be the best route to take had led me to and eventually through some destructive situations and painful afflictions.[1] 

      One day, during a time of reflection God spoke Words that brought illumination to the very dark places where I was most disappointed in myself.   This was one of the revelations that began to change the very fabric of my personal belief systems.[2]   

Juli, I have underwritten your process;

You’re worth the risk!

In the end, I will profit more out of your life 
than your process has cost Me.

      I repeated those Words of Life over and over again.  God had strategically used an analogy related to my previous work experience that penetrated the darkness of despondency with His Divine Light.[3]  Let me explain.

      Several years ago, I joined my husband in business and began working in the health care industry as an independent contractor for a supplemental health insurance company.  As an independent contractor, my responsibility was to present and enroll applicants in health plans that the insurance company provided.  Once I submitted the application for review, it went through an underwriting process.  It was during this process that the underwriters of the insurance company determined whether or not the applicant was too high of a risk to insure.  This means that the company would review the applicant’s health history to see if there were any indications that the insurance company would pay more money in claims than they would receive in premiums from the applicant.  Therefore, one’s past health experiences were a major determining factor in whether a company desired to take the risk.  If the stakes were too high and the company perceived that the applicant would cost them more than they would profit, the application would be denied.  However, on the flip side of the coin, if the insurance company determined there was a greater possibility that they would profit from the applicant as a policyholder than they would have to pay the policyholder in claims, the application was processed and put in effect.

      You see, for too long I had given the heaviness of guilt, condemnation, and fear’s paralyzing power access to my soul which temporarily prevented me from maximizing my full potential and hindered the fulfillment of the Purpose for which I was earthed into time.  From that moment of illumination on, I decided (mental assent) and chose (faith in action) to begin living a life of freedom from the fear and lie of making an unwise choice that God is not capable of redeeming.  The Truth is God is a Redeemer![4]  And He is fully capable of making all things well, if we give Him permission to do so.

      So today, if – like me – the life suffocating grips of guilt and condemnation have had their python hold on your soul, I release these Words of Life that are full of Encouragement and Hope to you…

God has underwritten your process; 

Because you are worth the risk!

Jul-ism

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[1] Proverbs 14:12

[2] Romans 12:2

[3] Psalm 119:130

[4] Isaiah 48:17

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