From Hurt to Healing

Wow! I’m blown away with the kind words and the encouragement I have received with this new adventure. I believe the reason being transparent can be so scary is the fear of comments or the lack of. We worry about the comments we could get or the comments we won’t get. It’s a catch-22. Sometimes the toughest criticism we get comes from other females. I know! I’m sorry I said it! Have you ever been there or experienced it? Some can be right down mean but I have learned over time most are right down beautiful!!! I have been blessed to have women like that around me. I want you to know I call all of you reading this friends. You are Beautiful, smart, powerful and worthy. You are wonderful!!!

You see there was a time in my life that I thought friendship hurt and that it was normal. I know that sounds crazy but truly sometimes it was painful but over time that additude changed. You see at that first job doing hair I met my friend for life (my person). It was the first time I didn’t have to worry if she was going to be my friend the next day or that I might make her mad. I could be me and she was ok with it. Because of the kind of friend she has been to me I learned how to be a friend to others. She has helped fix my crown many times over the years and for that I’m forever grateful.

God showed the power of women fixing other women’s crowns to me and I knew I wanted to be a part of it. You see during one of my most broken times in my life God spoke my name into other women’s hearts and they listened. During that time I had gifts dropped off at work, words of incouragment sent to me by messenger, text, phone calls and it always came at the most perfect time. It’s like God said she needs you to show love, but she can’t handle any questions right now. It’s what I needed the very most! Some made a special trip from out of town and some women I didn’t know well at all. I couldn’t believe God loved me so much that he would whisper my name into so many hearts and on top of that they stopped what they were doing to make sure I knew God loved me even when I didn’t feel loved! None of the women that God sent to me during that time needed recognition. I made a promise to God durning that time that if he whispered someones name into my heart I would listen and I have been trying to do that to this day. What a wonderful world we would live in if we could all start fixing one anothers crowns and never tell anyone you helped do it.

John 15: 12-13 “This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one’s life for his friends.”

New Kings James Version