Singing Sacredness

Feeling disqualified or unworthy? Today's episode of Sacred by Design is here to remind you that you are profoundly loved and inherently sacred. Have you ever savored a cup of coffee or felt the warmth of the sun on your face during a walk in the woods? These moments of joy are reflections of God's delight in you. Join us as we explore "Sacredness" and reassure you that you are not defined by your worst moments or the labels others have given you. We discuss the struggle of connecting mind, heart, and body, especially for those who've experienced trauma, and invite you to recall moments of presence and joy to see your sacredness. Tune in to discover the incredible love and beauty that God recognizes within you.

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Transcript

Speaker 1 0:22

Welcome back to Sacred by Design, another episode where we're talking about the origin of our name, the meaning of the name behind of this podcast, sacred by Design. And for this episode I want to talk directly to the woman who hears that name and starts to think she's disqualified. And starts to think she's disqualified If you hear the sacred by design and you turn away, tune out and think she's not talking to me, she's talking to somebody else. Hang on, I am, and what I want to say to you is you are not the sum of your worst moments or the things you've been through or the things you cling to or the words or names that have been put onto you. God sees through all of this, to your innermost being, to the essence of who you are, who he knows you to be, and he calls you his beloved. He knows your story, he knows your shame and he calls you his beloved. He sees the essence of who you are and recognizes himself in you, his goodness in you, his love in you, his beauty in you, in you. And if today is a day where this is hard to believe, that's okay. I'll hold that hope for us for a little while.

Speaker 1 2:16

If you've been through trauma, and perhaps especially sexual trauma, you might experience a wide disconnect between what your head knows, what your heart believes and what your body experiences. And when feeling this kind of disintegration, it can be really hard to get a glimpse of our inherent sacredness. So here's what I want to try Can you think of a moment where you felt a little bit more present or felt a little bit more of that togetherness or wholeness? And it's probably doing something you love or find beautiful. Find beautiful. Maybe it's walking in the woods and that great feeling of the sun spotting through the leaves and hitting your face. Maybe it's sitting down with a good cup of hot, fresh coffee and that first sip, mmm, that tastes so good. Maybe it's weightlifting or salsa dancing or trying out a new recipe and hosting friends for dinner, or maybe those are just all the things that I love. But think about one of those moments for you, and maybe it is just that sip of coffee where you went. This is good. And here's what I want to suggest that delight that you have in those good, beautiful things is pointing to your sacredness, because in that moment, do you know what's happening? In that moment, you are sharing in the delight that God has to, as if he's looking on with you, like giving you a nudge, and saying I know right, so cool, so good, so beautiful. Right, I know right and dear ones. He has so much, so many good and beautiful things that he wants to show you, yourself included. He sees you and he is trying to catch your eye to say I know right, you're so cool, you're so cool, you're so good, you're so beautiful. And I won't promise that it's not going to be hard.

Speaker 1 5:02

Catching this glimpse of our sacredness means pulling back a whole lot of other things that can be painful and hard to look at, especially related to drama. It involves going through grief and fear and anger even. But hold hope, because we don't do it alone. We have a God who comes and finds us, who inexplicably wants to be our Emmanuel, our God with us, not just at Christmas, but through all of it. Through all of it, sisters.

Speaker 1 5:44

A God who's gone before us through the very gates of hell to make a way for us to share in his love, and he might use others to find us. He might call out to us through that sunshine, through the woods or through that sip of coffee. He might use others to find us too. He might find us through a trusted therapist or coach here at Regeneration, through a group of women who, slowly, we can let see us through some times of quiet in journaling. But can you keep listening to how he's singing your sacredness to you? Can you dare to ask the question god, how is it that you see me? Because I think he has a whole lot of surprises in store for you.