I Choose Today to live abundantly

Don’t miss the opportunity to live an abundant life because of your trauma.

In the days, weeks, and months after my trauma, I can honestly say I did not have any joy, nor was I living a life of abundance. I was in survival mode. I was surviving, not thriving. My focus was on my loss. Who could blame me, right?

Up to that point in my life, I had experienced a great deal of trauma: being abused, abandoned, belittled, marginalized, and having innocence stolen. God had brought me through those times, and I was beginning to thrive in a life that was finally good, more than I could have asked or hoped for. I was experiencing joy and abundance. That was until that morning in early June when I woke up to my worst nightmare.

In the time following this traumatic morning, once the fog of despair and grief started to lift, I had a choice to make. I had to choose if I was going to continue to live in survival mode or if I was going to thrive with an abundant life.

Jesus said in John 10:10, “A thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I have come so that they may have life and have it in abundance.”

This experience was too hard to navigate on my own. If I depended on myself, I would continue down the spiral of despair. The only way I could experience joy and abundance is to allow God to carry me through until I was strong enough to begin living again.

“Blessed and greatly favored is the man whose strength is in You, in whose heart are the highways to Zion. Passing through the Valley of Weeping (Baca), they make it a place of springs; The early rain also covers it with blessings. They go from strength to strength, increasing in victorious power; each of them appears before God in Zion.” Psalms 84:5-7 AMP

Just like David, I went through the Valley of Weeping and went from strength to strength through God’s victorious power empowering me each step of the way to a life of joy and abundance that I can share with others.