Welcome,
Dear one.
Our focus today is the truth.
You are equipped.
Knowing that we have all the inner resources we need to face the challenges ahead allows us to boldly and confidently step into and through each day.
For this meditation,
I invite you to do something different.
I invite you to go for a walk while you listen.
The movement of walking represents our power and agency.
This forward motion will help to remove feelings of stuckness as you quite literally step into your power.
So pause the meditation as you ready yourself for a wellness walk outside right now.
As you walk,
Listen and engage with the Spirit,
Feeling God empower and strengthen you.
Let's begin.
Have you felt incapable of your current role as a mother,
Wife,
Or friend?
Have the challenges of this season caused you to question your capabilities or capacities?
If so,
Know that that feeling is a normal and common experience.
Motherhood indeed stretches us.
And yet,
That does not mean that you aren't able.
You are more than able with God's support,
Guidance,
And power in you.
You are not alone.
God wants to affirm and reassure you right now.
2 Peter 1 verse 3 explains it is God's divine power that gives us everything we need for living a godly life through him who called us.
God gives us what we need.
Take a moment to breathe deep centering breaths.
Breathing in and breathing out as you repeat an affirmation.
We will be saying I am on the in-breath and equipped on the out-breath.
I am equipped.
I am equipped.
I am equipped.
With each step you take as you walk during this meditation practice,
Feel the vibrations of this truth,
The earth below,
And your agency within combine,
Resonating together more and more.
You are equipped.
You have everything you need for this journey in motherhood.
Let's open ourselves up through prayer.
In Hebrews 4 verse 16,
We hear these words of encouragement.
Therefore,
Let us draw near with confidence to the throne of grace so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need.
God,
We are in a time of need.
And we can come to you when we feel like we are lacking.
We find empowerment and strength in you.
You give us all that is needed for whatever role we've been called to.
Even when we feel like our capacity and capabilities are stretched,
Help us remember that you are teaching us.
You are growing us.
We are learning.
In Philippians 2 verse 13,
Paul reiterates that it is God who works in us to will and to act and to fulfill his good purpose.
There is no greater purpose than to work in you.
Than to raise tiny humans.
It is a sacred responsibility.
And the greatest tool we have is love.
God,
Fill us right now with all the love that we need for this role.
Fill us with grace,
Compassion,
And understanding.
Fill us with the ability to see past and beyond the negative behaviors to the core of the need.
Fill us with the capacity to meet those deeper needs in our children.
Help us to love the person beyond the behavior.
You love us in this way,
God.
Equip us to love like you.
Let truth take root in you in a tangible way.
If you are walking,
Find a place to sit down for a little while.
I invite you to clench and unclench your fists,
Feeling power release and recharge in your hands.
Physically bringing attention and awareness to the power in you as you lock in these truths.
I am equipped.
God empowers me.
I am strong in him.
As you listen to this next passage,
Let the truth of your capabilities and strengths root themselves even deeper.
God,
In the book of Philippians chapter 1 verse 6,
Paul reassures the early church saying this,
For I am confident of this very thing,
That he who began a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Christ Jesus.
Let those words settle into every fiber of your being.
God is doing a great work in and through you.
He will accomplish great things through you.
He has given you everything you need for that work,
The task of raising humans,
Humans filled with kindness and motivated by love.
You are doing and are able to do this great task.
God is equipping you right now.
Imagine holding a backpack on your lap,
A place to add all the things you will need for the journey ahead.
In the moments that follow,
Imagine God filling that backpack with all the resources,
Exterior and interior,
You will need for the journey.
Picture them one by one,
Holding them each with gratitude and confidence.
You are welcome to put on that backpack,
Stand up now and continue walking again.
As you do,
Feel a greater confidence in the steps you take now.
Feel the strength that has grown and is growing in you.
Mama,
You have everything you need.
You are equipped for this journey.
Stay here as long as you need,
And when you feel like you have received what's needed,
You may end this practice.
