"Every Setback Is A Set Up For a Come Back" ...Unknown

Yesterday I was in a Nail Salon getting a manicure hoping to restore my bird talons into fingernails. I was having a nice and easy conversation with the girl next to me as well as the very talented lady performing magic on my hands.

Towards the end of the whole experience, another girl walked up to the front desk. It appeared as if she had been there before and began having a conversation with the girl who had been sitting next to me. From what I could hear, the young lady who walked in had just gotten out of the hospital. She had suffered an emotional breakdown and was put on 12 medications and released. Just standing there, she was so overwhelmed, she could barely speak. I looked into her eyes and saw a flicker of who once might have lived in there. My heart broke for her.

I have always been interested in people, but since I being in the business of self-mastery and mind management, I am more interested than ever in knowing what makes us tick. I also know that we are all possibly just a hares breath away from our own melt downs of many colors. Even people who seemingly have it all together have a breaking point, and one emotionally jarring event can alter a person's brain chemistry and send them into clinical depression even if they have never before in their life experienced it. It can happen to anyone, and with the world in the state that it's in, more people than ever are experiencing profound and sadness.

Many years ago, I personally experienced a life-altering event that caused me to slip into depression, and there was awhile I believed that there was no way out of it. I know what it feels like not to want to get out of bed in the morning or dare the sun to shine through a crack in the shade and then curse it when it does. There were times that I did not want to talk to people because I did not think they would find it remotely interesting that I was depressed. I was ashamed not to be perfect.

So when I heard this girl talking, my heart went out to her in a way she couldn't know. I pulled her aside and spoke to her, I shared that I hoped she would not give up five minutes before the miracle. She asked me how I got through it and I told her I got through it by Faith. She then told me that she was an Atheist. Without guile, I asked her how that was working out for her. She burst into tears. We both did. I explained that I felt better when I stood in the light of God's perfect love. It wasn't as if I hadn't known it before, but I was so lost in my feelings I had forgotten it was there for me to access. How about that! I got too successful and busy, and forgot the best thing in my life.

I believe we were all made with a need to be connected to our creator and until that connection is established, we're on our own and that's a lonely place to be.

In order to be connected to the creator, it requires a leap of faith. But really, one only has to look around at the majesty of the Earth and it's creations to feel God. He's a caring, forgiving, loving God. Folks get caught up in the religious jargon. It has been said, "Religion is mans attempt to get to God." I say, a relationship with God is another matter. It is what matters. To me, it takes more faith not to believe. It's just what you choose to put your faith in.

When I was in that dark time, I was feeling hopeless when hope was but a prayer away. Did I toss my Zoloft out the window that minute? Of course not. I needed to be on that drug to recalibrate my chemical imbalance, but I rediscovered the thing that would give me back my life, my peace, and my sense of humor. A book. I t was a simple book that turned me around.

I found it when my red tired eyes landed on the cover of the book through a store window. It was Joel Osteen's Book, "YOUR BEST LIFE NOW." I stood staring through the window... And thought... I. Want. My. Best. Life. NOW.

Joel's written words reminded me of all that I had inside me and I must have been ready to receive it because things started to change for me immediately. A few years later, I wrote my own book, "THE 30 DAY HEARTBREAK CURE" in the hopes that I would be able to help people heal from their hurts, the way I had been healed when I needed it the most.

The girl in the salon and I had a wonderful exchange of love energy. I asked her to consider our talk, and I gave her a copy of Joel's book. She said she thought that maybe she walked into that salon for the first time just so that she would have that experience. I have a strong feeling she will pull through this. We are resilient beings, we can pull through anything.

There are lots of things in life that are real that you can't see (like Gravity). God is one of them.

So all this is to say, if you are feeling tender these days, for whatever reason, I want to remind you there is no end to God's love for you. When we decide to be, we are in his hands.

Happy Fourth of July to all of our servicemen and women and the people who love them. We bless and salute you for fighting for our independence.

"Faith is the substance of things hoped for the evidence of things not yet seen" - Hebrews 11:1

Can I get an Amen!

Love,
Cat