Releasing Potential, Empowering People.

There is a huge amount of emphasis, in our culture, is placed upon what we do. I strive to achieve. If I succeed I feel great. However feelings of success are fleeting. So I do more to feel good again. If I fail or if others think I’m not doing enough I feel unworthy and try harder. Thus we tread and eternal self worth treadmill. It is important to realise our primary calling is not to do but to be. To be in and enjoy a relationship with God and the others he puts around us.

There are times when our walk with Jesus is like following a trail through dense woodland in the fog. We can reach a point where we simply don’t know where to go next. We need to reflect or wait. This is normal. Just as the caterpillar needs to retreat in order to cocoon and become a butterfly, sometimes so do we. the re-ordering of ourselves that happens in these seasons of waiting can be painful and disconcerting. In our hurry-addicted world, just stopping can feel terrifyi

Once, when we were praying, my husband saw a picture of me sitting under a tree, in my DM boots, reading a book. I was really surprised. I felt it was God delighting in me just being me. I didn’t think my tendency to waste huge amounts of time reading was particularly praiseworthy. Neither would I add my love of DM boots to my CV. But God likes me. He is really happy for me to just be me. He is at ease with me. And with you, too. Knowing God is at ease with us, gives us the f

Love releases our potential. Author and coach Nancy Kline asks: If you knew that you are beautiful exactly as you are, if you knew that listening to you is the most important thing I can be doing right now, if you knew that you can figure this out, that your ideas matter, that your feelings count, that you are important, that you have a choice, that you can face anything, that you can solve this even when the experts haven’t, that you are a delight – what then? Yes indeed, wh