A Way of Being

When we begin DNRS we are told to create a proclamation- a statement of our new way of being, of showing up in the world. It turns out that health, happiness and fulfillment are simply a way of looking at and experiencing life. Just a different lense.

This morning I felt the need to proclaim my new way of being in a prayer like the Psalms, a statement of what is – in the image of God so too do our words not return to us void. What we state as a reality moves us toward that reality. The Psalms are written in this style of a prayer that is also a proclamation of something that is true.

While my DNRS proclamation is simply a sentence that I state during practice rounds, I created this as something to measure up to, a standard to place myself against and see what area(s) need attention at the moment. Something to ground, anchor, and bring me home when I need to be reminded of what my priorities are. I have a lot of growing to do to fill these shoes so if you know me personally feel free to nudge me if my words, attitude and actions aren’t measuring up. I need all the help I can get 🌞

Jesus, you are my everything and my all.

My confidence and faith are complete and secure.

My trust is that of an infant.

My peace is wide, deep, and dynamic as the oceans you created.

I am calm and focused on all which is true, good, beautiful, worthy, constructive, honorable, and humorous.

My discipline runs deep and drinks from an endless river of love. The focus of my energies and attention are completely devoted to the truth.

I do as I please, knowing that with my heart resting in you, all of my desires are worthy of pursuit.

I hold time as a precious gift, to be used as the limited and sacred thing it is to bring myself and others more of Your life on THIS earth. I know I will have an abundance of Your Life after death but now is the only place I can build my Temple, love my family, and minimize the unnecessary suffering of evil residing in my being.

Loving and building up my family is my first priority, followed closely by sharing in a larger fellowship of community, of uplifting connections.

My own mind is entirely at my disposable, under my reign of authority to be used as I like. I acknowledge that in a very real way, all that happens in my mind and heart is the only reality there is and I wield this power for my own good and that of those surrounding me.

I sleep in peace because you alone, O Lord, make me dwell in safety, through the gifts of your love, Redemption and free will that I freely chose to use only for good.

My body is full of energy, vitality and intense calm. I fully receive the gift of abundant health as the outflowing of a life lived in Your truth. I embrace the gift of my own spiritual and physical, feminine beauty as a powerful tool to bring You to the world.

I receive and enjoy the gift of a calm, quiet mind, enjoying peace all the days of my life.

I relish in deep, fulfilling relationships with my husband, children and friends, and the ability to serve others deeply and to be served in return.

I revel in the fact that practicing presence and gratitude in the moment is what makes life worth living.

I dance through life with abandon in the knowing that all my knowledge is rubbish before the presence of God. I embrace unknowing and endlessly deepening humility as a way of life.

I will extol the LORD at all times; his praise will always be on my lips. I will glory in the LORD; let the afflicted hear and rejoice. Glorify the LORD with me; let us exalt his name together. I sought the LORD, and he answered me; he delivered me from all my fears. Those who look to him are radiant; their faces are never covered with shame. Psalm 34: 1-5