Spiritual awakening struggles are amplified when we continue to hold on to the trauma-reinforcing, barbed-wire, loved-ones.

The ones whom God has left blind and deaf to your needs (no matter how loud you get) because of THEIR hurtful (sinful) choices that blocks ALL THEIR EFFORTS. It disconnected them from God and therefore disconnected from you.
If they don’t know and cannot appreciate God within, they will NOT appreciate the standards you’ve worked SO HARD to cultivate God within you and reprogram your mind through integration with the Holy Spirit within yourself, through self control and discipline, through honing your intuition and integrity and harkening obedience to your Creator.
Through understanding your worth to your Creator.
Through learning what TRUE Unconditional love IS and what it means.
You come to realize there are two things REAL LOVE will always be: Safe and Healthy. If it’s not that, it’s barbed wire. And you don’t want to become barbed wire…TRUST ME!!!! Let God deal with barb wire people. They are completely outside your control and power anyways. Care and support and love from a distance only.
Keep your distance OR expect a lot more suffering in hopes that they see your value enough to stop hurting you.
Keep growing as God is leading you, honing your own character, integrity, values, self control and discipline…reinforcing your own value.
Embrace faith in your moments of doubt. Stay in your lane (within your realm of control. YOU!).
Keep your high standards! Standards are for you. Standards come with Grace and consistent unyielding effort. Unyielding correction. Unyielding education and seeking. It’s an extremely intimate and personal experience to increase one standards with whole heart. Not for others, but for yourself! YOU SEE THE VALUE IN THE LESSONS. THE PURPOSE IN THE PAIN.
Standards are not expectations. Standards are actions that you take and accept. Expectations are desires without the action that follows through to make it happen. Expectations involve variables outside of your control. Standards is setting the bar in how you make your choices….How you think…How you move…What influences you allow…How healthy and safe you are…How deeply you love…How much Peace and Joy you experience…How present and connected you are…I could go on and on.
Have the courage not to quit on yourself, nor the dreams God placed on your heart, just because barb wire wants to stay barb wire. We all have free will and each person must choose for himself/herself. In every choice. Are you feeding Peace or are you feeding Chaos? Love or Fear? Faith or Doubt?
When you start feeding peace and love and faith, don’t expect your loved ones to stop feeding chaos and fear and doubt. Learn how to protect yourself against the Barb wire at the start.
How? Until you understand, thoroughly spiritual protection, and your existing solely in the material world, Learn BOUNDARIES!!! Start there. And become an expert at them. You are worthy of Safety and Health/Well Being. If there’s one thing I would’ve done differently, it’s would’ve had enough faith in myself to stay in firm in my boundaries.
But in that season, I was a baby in faith in God, I definitely did not yet have faith in myself. I always felt like boundaries were unjust, but it’s because I wasn’t ever allowed to have any so it was unjust.
When you start having boundaries, you will learn who your Barbwire people are! Take note and trust your inner peace or chaos to guide you.















