ljc05

I am so grateful for the journey you have taken and that you've made this introductory course free. It's been awe inspiring. You helped to sharpen my understanding of empathy. It's interesting how I came across you guys. I come from a reformed Christian background. I carried the belief God no longer connects individually with His people. Well, a few months ago, through God's process of building trust (sanctification) I stumbled upon some information that forever changed my life and my belief in the connection we can have with God. He gave me an identity. He told me that I am his "Seer." He explained that I see hearts "You see inside them and you hurt with them. You submit to My name and I show you what is true." It's been a wild ride ever since, as God continues to walk me through my fears. We have a dog named Sugar, she's a rescue case. She's unimaginably sweet but very sensitive. We never intended to have a dog in our current living situation but she intended to have us so we've been trying to make it work. As I was about to leave for the day I went to put her on her tie-out. As I felt grief for having to do this to keep her safe I prayed and asked Jesus if there was another way. "there's got to be a better way than locking animals up and commanding obedience while lording my authority over them."(Luke 22:24-27) A couple days later I also had a dream. I'd like to note I have no prior exposure to either of these kinds of animals, but in my dream something that looked like a fox approached me and as I went to shoo it away for fear of losing my chickens I saw the longing in its eyes and recognized it had no desire to do harm, it was only looking for connection. After that there was a pair of horses. I met with them in their stall, petting their noses and enjoying their company. In the next scene I was in a high stress situation. There were a lot of people around. The same horses were in tight quarters with all of us, snapping their teeth and kicking at everyone, including me. Everyone kept saying things about how they were unruly and needed to be "dealt with," but I recognized them and knew they were just afraid. I was able to approach them with boldness and give them the reassurance they needed to calm down. I was performing the Trust Technique without even knowing it existed! I woke up with an understanding that my heart seer identity also extends to animals. It wasn't too long after that I found you all in a YouTube ad. I was skeptical at first but as I started watching I was floored by the things James was saying. I was moved to tears by the beauty of it all. He's essentially laying out the foundational transformation power of the Gospel (check out Romans 8). It's all the things I've been learning about how God (and the liar) speaks to us. The liar through our fears and thinking, and God through our intuition, our heart. He created us to experience His love and connection with a specific purpose in mind. That purpose gets clouded as we enter a broken world with a fractured nature. We can get like those scared, anxious animals biting even the One trying to help us because we just don't understand... And we're scared. I say all that to say, as far as I understand, interacting with animals in this way is a common grace God has given to all of His creation as He has instructed us to fill the earth and subdue it. I believe two ways peace of mind and the present moment can be equivocated in the Bible to the act of "Selah" as well as "Be still and know that I am God." This common grace is important to recognize because the liar would have us believe all kinds of crazy things to distract us from recognizing our Good Shepherd for who He is (John 10). Jesus says "I am the way, the truth, and the life, no one comes to the Father except through me." We've all done things in our lives that is against our Father's will. Things that harm ourselves and the world around us. The Bible says what we earn for those wages is eternal death. All of this makes great sense given the principles of the Trust Technique. No one can serve two masters. We can either accept the blood price the Good Shepherd paid for us and submit to His will and live, or we can be our own master and pay our own penalty. He opens His arms wide to all who will come to Him, yet grieves as He allows us the choice to go our own way and pay our own penalty. Since watching the Messages of Trust I've been working on strengthening my present moment. The peace it has helped bring to my heart has been out of this world. I watched as my anxious filled Sugar yawned and relaxed in my presence, opting to remain there as opposed to chasing my son around the yard. I've also heard my Savior speak a multitude of encouraging words to my heart in the midst of one of those moments, telling me of all the wonderful things he wants to show me and the life journey he's excited to take me on. He expressed His Joy in the time I had taken to connect with Him and listen to His words. It was great to just be present with my Creator. I know all of this has been extensive. Thank you for giving me an outlet to share the great way you've been used to impact my life. I know the concepts of the Trust Technique are meant to inform my whole identity and I'm so grateful for that. as I send this I am abundantly curious if there have been others like me that you have heard from. God works in mysterious ways. I am praying that God will continue to bless what you're doing and that you'll gain a larger audience because the work you're doing is such a great gift of healing to the world.