dailydatewithgod

To be a victim, we have to be a victim of something or someone.  To be empowered, we must own our own power.  There are so many ways we can easily find ourselves making someone else or something else a proxy for us.   The moment we let someone else’s perspective dictate our own without first digesting it to figure if it is a good fit for us, we have made that person or idea our proxy.  Eleanor Roosevelt once said, “Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn’t have the power to say yes.” I attended a workshop once that had us print out coupons that said, “Thank you for being my higher power today.” We were instructed to picture ourselves giving it out to anyone to whom we gave authority or power over our decisions on a given day.  God invites us to be the proxy in our own lives.  When we use our breath to connect to our hearts and open up the channel to the truth of who we are we create the environment which sustains our proxy.  It is a practice to notice how we make other people, circumstances, or ideas our proxy.  Just be willing to practice noticing how often I am my own proxy versus someone or something else is enlightening.  Okay, downright shocking when I notice how easily I give it away before checking in with my own heart.  The good news is practice creates a sustainable process.  The more I practice stopping and asking myself, who is the proxy in this situation-my heart and truth or someone or something outside of me? the more I learn to check in with myself before handing over my proxy. God encourages us to get to know ourselves as the powerful being God created.  God delights in seeing how we use the power we have within us to shape our lives. Owning our proxy is one step towards seeing ourselves as God sees us.