There is something about a laundromat that really gets my brain thinking, and everything around me starts to just quiet down. I have recently discovered that this is one of the areas where I am able to get some deep internal reflection. Maybe the sound of the clothes turning inside the washing machine is what does it for me, or the empty clean space for my eyes to wander without getting distracted. I have not been able to quite put my finger on it just yet, but I usually take any time I have a laundry day as a moment to sit in silence and ponder.
Recently, while I was having an impromptu journal reflection, I began to identify an area where I was feeling a bit triggered. It was a feeling I could identify that I had experienced before, and I was not quite sure how to handle it, but this time I could name what it was. Now, to even go through this processing mentally while writing in my journal is a huge WIN! I can remember the times when I would feel this way and not know what I should do. But in this scenario, it was not anything new but rather recurring. Within this recurrence, I began to take note of what specific action brought this trigger to the surface in the first place. From there, I could see how it was trying to make me feel a certain way, although it was not lining up with what I knew I had been saying and speaking by Faith.
All of these factors combined brought me to the understanding that what God had shared with me was right. It was and still is the truth, but in this moment, I could not allow the trigger to initiate a feeling that would then cause me to speak a narrative, opposite to what I know to be the truth. Something very important that I wanted to point out is that another narrative was trying to override the truth, and it was all hoping to get pulled from an emotion.
When we are functioning inside of Faith, there will be moments of opposition looking to pull you away from what you know to be the truth. They may find its route through an experience, emotion, circumstance, or past moments and encounters, but the decision you make after is where the testing takes place. Faith is going to speak outside of what you cannot see just yet. It functions in the language of possibility. It is not predicated on whether things line up just yet around you because it speaks towards a trajectory of what will be and who you will become if you stay on the right course. This moment in the laundromat was a course check. I could either choose the route that would lead me down the rabbit hole path I knew all too well, or I could stay where I had been speaking from, despite all of the opposing factors.
In that moment, I heard God speak to me in a very small, still voice to stay on the climb. All this time before then, I did not even realize I was climbing myself up to a place through my Faith. No wonder, in that moment of the trigger and the emotions that came afterwards, I immediately felt inside a wave of weariness. If I had chosen to stay with how I was feeling, I would have wallowed in it. But God’s small whisper charged me to stay on the Faith mountain by which I had been speaking.
Maybe from what I have shared with you today, this moment is something you can also relate to or have experienced. Before you exit whichever app you are listening to this podcast I want to encourage you to keep climbing. Your faith requires a climb. It is up to you to not allow yourself to fall behind or fall off from where you have been believing or trusting God. Stay grounded and flat-footed no matter what! Let this be your swipe up today.
I will keep climbing
I will keep believing
I will stay where the trajectory of my Faith is pointing me towards.
It’s only up from here!
Until Next Time,
Forever in Faith. Forever in Motion.