01/19/2024
While living in a society that can make you feel like you’re not actually doing anything, if you don’t post it on social media for everyone to see, it can be easy to feel like you’re not in motion.
As I shared my life and business dreams for this year and what felt like faults this with my big sister/business mentor Brittany Washington of , she spoke these words,
“You’re not pausing, your processing.”
Pausing by definition means “a temporary stop.”
Processing means to “progress, advance, or something going on.”
Do you see how the two are vastly different. One implies that there is absolutely no activity, while the other implies that the activity happening is actually moving you to the next place.
This time of year people are usually pausing in someway, both naturally, and spiritually. We are in the winter season, where the activity of growing new things seems to pause, but in reality, it is truly just involved in the process of nature that requires it to no longer produce, but to rest. Rest is a part of the growth PROCESS.
When we look in the spiritual realm, so many of us are fasting, and what can look like a stop in activity is actually a processing of the things the Holy Spirit has given us to do in this year that may require us to stop some things in the natural so that we can truly process them in the spirit.
If you are in this season of your life, know that your process doesn’t have to be seen to the world for it to truly be a process that is working.
In the words of my dear sister, when you present what you have processed to the world, it will be very evident that you never stopped at all.
