Empathetic Faith
I am an Empath.
As I discover more about what this means, I learn so much about my faith. The very notion of life and its connection to Spirituality was something that never confused me when allowed myself to just Be. Life seemed to be going so well in those moments. So well, I began to confuse myself.
Childhood traumas made me believe the life I was experiencing couldn’t be really mine. People would say, “Bad stuff happens, but you can overcome anything”. The problem was, I never really saw the “overcome” part growing up. I am proof that God can be right in the middle of your life working things out for the good and you will miss it. The trauma of past experiences tuned Him out. Spirituality became less about my existing relationship with God, to this quest of me looking for God.
The more I crumbled, the more God searched for me! During the height of the pandemic, my business closed. I found myself looking at a blank T.V. screen. The burning question in my mind was, “How did we get here???” I couldn’t face what I saw on the news so I grabbed my Bible. I love to pull things apart so quite naturally Genesis, the beginning, is where I started. Before I knew it, I had read through the entire Old Testament and was ultimately led back to Christ. I say “back to” Christ because I could feel myself in the stories. I started to empathize. I started remembering my own pain and His very presence in it the entire time. I was led back to my relationship with God that I had from the very beginning!
When I can’t think of a reason to love someone, I pick up my Bible and I use my gift of empathy to see life from a different lens. As an empath, I am learning that I cannot navigate life with this gift on my own. The more I understand Christ’s love, the easier it is for me to love. The ability to see me in Christ allows me to let His Spirit, the Holy Spirit be my guide.
I can see how I got here. I can see the pain and the victory.
I can move forward because I see just how much Jesus loves everyone that He encounters when I simply allow myself to just Be. – (BM™)