We are not designed to live a life of distraction.
But the world wants you to believe that you are.
The truth is far greater than you can even imagine because you are MEANT to think deeply and live a life of high design.
You are MEANT to gain clarity through writing and talking and sharing your true self through deep conversations.
You are DESIGNED to gain confidence and conviction through acting and doing.
This is who you have been created to be.
This is who you ARE.
But we don’t live this way, so we?
Instead we pick up and carry heavy, heavy burdens that are not ours to carry, and live lives of “quiet desperation” thinking that if we just don’t think about it, if we just distract ourselves enough, then the burdens will go away by themselves.
This might work for a little while, but it will NOT work in the long run.
What will work, you ask?
Developing a life built upon the strongest foundation in the world that resulted from the greatest gift we have ever received—our Lord and Savior, Jesus Himself.
Standing upon that foundation, we are able to SAY YES to the invitation presented to us by God to live the Divine life here and now, and that results in clarity or knowing exactly who we are, what we believe, how we want to live, what motivates us and why it matters.
And that results in a person being a soul on fire.
These people do not live lives of quiet desperation, but rather they live lives of confidence, conviction, and calm–even in the face of intense pressure and dark nights of the soul.
Instead of distraction, the strong choose productive action. They share their heart with a few. They talk. They get real and raw. They cry and laugh. Clarity comes as they go places that feel heavy and hard. The weight is lifted as we open our wounded, worried, and warm hearts and allow the Divine Doctor to heal us through His grace and the grace He has entrusted to others to share as His instruments.
This is where peace is found, isn’t it?
You are special. You are special enough. You are not too much or too little. You are a beautiful soul becoming the original you that you already are. The process of you becoming you is just that, a process.
And it is this process that the 40 Day Celebration of the Greatest Gift We’ve Ever Received is all about.
It is a process in which you can get out of your head and into your heart.
The 40 Day Celebration will help you build strong habits of daily prayer and mediation, living the life of grace, striving to grow daily in virtue and abandoning yourself to God’s will.
It will also share with you a recipe for living and loving well, and how you can become the living, breathing, and wonder working saint God created you to be.
Advent is designed to help us slow down and sit with the truth of who we are, how much we are loved, and what we have been created for—not a life of distraction, but a life of purpose, peace and abundance.
We need to slow down to speed up.
So, slow down and join the 40 Day Celebration.
Because you are enough and you are MEANT to become so much more.
So, SAY YES and celebrate with me and all the others across the world who are striving to slow down and become exactly who God created them to be.
It IS possible. You just have to SAY YES.
40 Days of Celebration of the Greatest Gift We’ve Ever Received.
Hope to see you there, and know of my prayers for you and yours!
God bless!
Christina Semmens is a Roman Catholic author, speaker, and coach and host of the Say Yes to Holiness podcast and YouTube Channel. She currently lives in Fort Payne, Alabama where she strives to live out a life of authentic discipleship in the pursuit of holiness while empowering, teaching and accompanying others in striving to do the same.
