Suffering Within The Process

*Proverbs 4:23 ~ Above all else guard your heart for everything you do flows from it. It is the Monday of finals week for the Fall '22 semester. I was in a  rush recording this episode and dehydrated so if you hear "Pure shate" (1:11)  feel free to laugh (I thought it was funny) but you guys know what I meant and as always bare with me even through dehydration and poor enunciation. I was super excited to share this revelation with you because as I said it has been a rough week or two. Yes, numerous good things have happened and I am certainly grateful for this growth that I have experienced, still for me the suffering I endured was very heavy on my heart. I had to really stay my course and not give up. Once again resting as needed only to turn around and keep going. Pastor Steven Furtick of Elevation Church said in one of his sermons that "Confidence in God's promise without commitment to His process is not dependence it's delusion"; to me that meant if I am operating within my faith in God's ability to do what he has promised me whether that's what he has promised all of us in his word (the Bible) or what he has spoken specifically to me I cannot quit the process because it is hard.  I was anxious (eager) recording  this because to come out on the other side and see a victory in another unexpected way really made me feel fulfilled and hopeful in other endeavors in my life. There were a lot of technical difficulties with recording and publishing this episode. My computer and storage device seemed to just want to delete this and I really had to be patient with myself to find a way to preserve what I had already recorded.  Nevertheless, episode 5 is here even if the process was more difficult than the past four and to me that is what makes this even more worth the trouble. Finding a way through problems and still coming out stronger and more knowledgable on the other side. Your hard times may break you and it may take time to put the pieces back together but in the end you are worth the time and energy you put into yourself. Stay the course and run your race!