What we meditate on is what we find. Some call it the law of attraction, the Bible calls it sowing and reaping. We may not realize we are sowing negativity in ourselves, but when seeds of the negative get in us, those seeds produce a harvest through us.

Everyone has a past of hurts, trauma, and negative words spoken over them. No one is unique in this history, but the mystery is how we manifest what we have been through. I was listening to Johnny Enlow yesterday and he just returned from a conference of reformers in Europe and he said this, “Survivors identify with their trauma, restorers identify with their assignment.” The whole message is on Elijah Streams, it’s worth a listen.

I have been thinking about that all day long and then when a friend came over yesterday to do my hair, she pulled beauty out of me I did not know was there. She said, it has always been there you just needed someone to bring it out of you. Then when I sent the photo to a friend, she responded, Bee-YOOOO-tiful!!!!

Why does this matter? Because anyone can see the trauma of our history, can hear the stories of our pain, can listen to us share our troubles and many can see where we are still a hot mess. However, we need to surround ourselves with people who can see the beauty in us and pull it out of us. Our assignment as restorers of people is to see the beauty in others and bring it out.

Ephesians 4:29 says, “Let no unwholesome word proceed from your mouth, but only such a word as is good for edification according to the need of the moment, so that it will give grace to those who hear.”

I am so thankful I have friends who see past the fruit of the trauma and are pulling me into the beauty that has been hidden there all along. I see in the spirit a speedboat pulling people up and out like a water skier so they can enjoy the ride called life abundantly. I hear people telling the boat driver to “Hit It!” For they are ready to come out of their trauma and get into their assignment. Let’s go!!!!!