Day 235 Daily Morning Prayer “I AM NOT STARTING FROM SCRATCH”

0:00You are listening to words for the soul, food for the heart, your daily morning prayer podcast. Good morning. Come on in here on this wonderful day. We prepare ourselves in a circle as a team of people moving forward together because we support one another as we move forward. Let's breathe this in first. Everything I have done has taught me something. Meditate on that. That's true for me and you. Let's pray. God of wisdom and God of unfolding seasons. Today we shift how we see our energy because sometimes we look at ourselves and say, I'm tired. I've given so much. I don't have what I used to.

1:05But what if that is not depletion? What if that is preparation? All the meetings, all the deadlines we had to meet, all the mistakes that were made some hours and some some other folks who didn't take it as their mistake but gave it to us. All the lessons, all the hard conversations, all the leadership moments, all the disappointments, all of the wins and all of the failures, all of the adjustments. None of it was wasted. We were learning. Learning what works. Learning what drains. Learning what scales. Learning what breaks. Learning what builds. Learning what lasts. God, we are not starting our dreams empty. We are starting informed. We are not beginning behind.

2:13We are beginning equipped. Experience is not exhaustion. Wisdom is not wearyness. Our years invested are not years lost. So, reframe our thinking. When we say, I've given so much to other people's dreams. Remind us, we gleaned from that. We observed. We were refined. We were matured. We learned how to communicate. How to negotiate. How to manage. How to endure. How to pivot. And how to recover. Those lessons are leverage and we will not dismiss them. In this world, being redesigned, we now know ourselves not to be novices. We are seasoned. And seasoning has its value.

3:14So today, we reject the lie that says we are too late. What we are now is we are prepared. And preparation is power. Remind us again. The life we want is on the other side of work. We cannot skip. But now we see it clearly. We are not skipping from zero. We are stepping forward with everything we have learned. So sharpen our focus, strengthen our confidence, clarify our next step. One step, not ten. One step, not ten. So we move now, informed. We move, trained. We move now, ready. Amen. Amen. What lesson from your past work life can directly strengthen your dream right now?

4:27Now a firm with me saying, I am not starting from scratch. I'm starting from power. Now go out and have yourself. You powerful person, you. A marvelous day. Just because it's yours to have. So snatch it up and run on with it.