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Crossing My Bridges Blog
INSPIRATIONAL AND MOTIVATIONAL STORIES
CHANGE OF SEASON
The signs of transition are all about us. Do we recognize them? Do we desire, plan, expect and prepare for them?
The Skip and Alignment with the Spirit Level
Art has that effect on me, something you can’t put into words, something that speaks directly to the soul.
Building From the Ground Up
When your new life is in place and you have done the hard work you will become that person God created you to be, as his Holy Spirit takes up residence and completes your transformation leading you into his ordained purpose.
FROM VICTIM TO VICTOR Learning, Overcoming rejection or Abandonment
Most of all learn to enjoy your own company while you are working through this loss, rather like a butterfly when it is in the chrysalis, quietly transforming on the inside, until you are ready to emerge in glorious technicolor.
ABANDONMENT, REJECTION OR MOVING ON- We Still Need Relationships
Rejection affects the way we think and feel about ourselves and can spiral out of control into a depression.
GRAFTED INTO THE LIVING TREE
In many ways it is much easier to understand spiritual concepts through metaphors and as an artist, I understand a lot more about God’s love through nature when I can see practical evidence than through mere words which do not capture my imagination, but often sound...
BLESSINGS OR CURSINGS
Sometimes we may have escaped from a situation where we felt like there was no fruit, no joy and no blessings, that we were being punished for what has gone wrong in our lives and bad choices we had made, our person-hood was under siege or we were the victim of other people’s choices. When next you look at trees, stop to think about what they symbolize –
TREES AS METAPHORS FOR LIFE, GROWTH AND DEATH.
When we go through transitions, we are like trees that need to rest, to conserve and renew our energy, it is the end of that season in our life. We may even be transplanted if we move to a new location, this will take a long time before our roots settle down into the new soil and find their food and nutrients.