Trigger point #Chilegetup#Day12 #2minutegems

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The blessing and burden of being educators of young children is that we have the biggest impact on their development.

I often quote that it takes a village, and we are raising the children we teach, because we spend more time with these kids than their parents do from day to do.

So the lessons we share in academia and morality can build them or break them at a very early age.

If you think back to some of the earliest memories of your life whether your life was glittered in gold or painted with foil, you have a trigger point.

Your trigger point can be the things that have broken you. Broken your perspective, self esteem, ability, accessibility and beyond at an early age. Or the things that have propelled you further.

For me I grew up in a house of abuse, loud arguments, loud substances and even louder pain. The essence of these experiences that I witnessed at five years old have birthed the way I have viewed myself in the world (or not) and the intimate relationships I chose to settle for that have broken me immensely over time. They are my trigger point.

2 Samuel 4:4 shares the story of a boy who was five years old when his father, Jonathan, and grandfather, King Saul died in battle. When this occurred, Mephibosheth’s nurse was running quickly with the boy in her hand. While running in deep fear, she dropped him. The fall caused the boy to become crippled.

And yes that was that boys name!!!

The very people that were there to protect him, caused his infirmity… sheesh!

Whether you are in your 80’s or in your Millennial prime, do you ever think about where it started for you?…. The moments where you were dropped, and how that has indirectly shaped and impacted your life decisions.

Why you spend money the way you do? Or don’t know how to save because all you’ve seen is struggle?

Why you will never step foot in another church building?

Why you settle for relationships and friendships that don’t serve you.

Why you fill voids with highs that don't even scratch the surface of your deepest lows.

Why you overwork to the point of burnout because you never want to be evicted and moved around the way your family did… So you hide behind work.

Why you find your identity in everything else but the you the creator intended for you to be.

Maybe you had to learn how to process grief suddenly at an early age, and so you deeply fear death.

Why you’re afraid to get close to people because you were violated against your will.

You’ve seen sickness take over a loved ones body so now when you get a diagnosis you don’t even believe you have a fighting chance….

You were dropped…. And the very moments that have defined you or impacted you so deeply in different seasons of your life must now be a spring board.

Let it fuel your fire… no more excuses… no more crutches to accepting less than you deserve…. Discover your dropping point..think about what it will cost you if you don't go back to your dropping point and instead lay the same seed for your children...in turn crippling them.. Go on back

And then...

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