Pruning will produce the Fruits of the Spirit:
- lovecenteredtees
- Aug 27
- 3 min read
I will be continuing to step away for a bit of time, to focus this season of my life for some deep introspection and healing in my life, and am coordinating with some different people throughout the world to help aid in working on new material down the world to assist others in helping them heal in the trauma/soul wound area.
As I have been on my journey with LaRette, and the Lord continues to reveal more about myself and what needs to be pruned, I realize that church is not equipping individuals, couples and marriages with the proper tools to fully thrive. However, before I feel like I can fully give, there must be a full maturation process within myself. I am proud of the work that I have put out so far, yet, a deeper process must occur at this time, and the people I am coordinating with, on top of ministry school, will help prepare some new material and what I am feeling called to help other individuals, couples, and marriages with in the future.
From time to time, I will pop back up in some blogs, and have my marketing team working on some new product designs for me for some posting material.
I felt as Oasis continues to tour, I felt a couple of songs hit me at my soul level. I don’t listen to much secular music anymore, which I write about in my book The Love Well Letters. However, in the song Do You Know What I Mean, I am reminded that sometimes we have to go back to the place where things started where our deepest shame and wounds started from. It doesn’t mean it has to be a long stay, but sometimes the Lord reveals things left for us to heal in the midst of those places, so we become the men and women that God has called us to be. It can cause us and others great anguish if we do not address these issues:
“Step off the train all alone at dawn
Back into the hole where I was born
The sun in the sky never raised an eye to me
The blood on the trax and must be mine
The fool on the hill and I feel fine
Don't look back cos you know what you might see
Look into the wall of my mind's eye
I think I know, but I don't know why
The questions are the answers you might need
Coming in a mess going out in style
I ain't good-looking but I'm someone's child
No one can give me the air that's mine to breathe
I met my maker
I made him cry
And on my shoulder he asked me why
His people won't fly through the storm
I said 'Listen up man, they don't even know you're born
I don't really care for what you believe
So open up your fist or you won't receive
Get up off the floor and believe in life
No-one's ever gonna ever ask you twice
Get on the bus and bring it on home to me
We stay stagnant and dead if we continue to numb out or not address core root issues. It can be a bitter pill to swallow, but sometimes we have to return to the very things that we thought we were finished with and were not. Again, not a long stay, but a final pruning by the Lord so we become the emotionally and spiritually safe men and women of God that we are called to be.
I will end on the Oasis song Don’t Look Back in Anger. I really do believe that we are living in a time, as I mention in my new book where we have to assess things on a physical level, soul wound [mind, will emotions], and demonic level]. We do have to be mindful that sometimes we are fighting trauma at the soul level or demonic cycles or both at the same time when we interact with others. I will be working with some individuals to bring out some course material to cover these topics in-depth, because I don’t believe the church frees people from these things fully, and I feel we need to be walking and thriving fully. That includes myself. So, I am excited to go to deeper levels and I think living in that space of anger and avoidance does no one any good. So, I think that this song is a perfect way to end this discussion. I will also leave a link to Taylor Welch’s discussion with Wendy Backlund on The Deep End. LaRette, if you listening and reading out there, I love ya! Enjoy!
Do You Know What I Mean:
Don't Look Back In Anger:
Taylor Welch's Interview:
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