How to Renew Your Mind and Grow Your Faith
Christian, Spiritual growth, Christian mentorship
Date Published: Sept 22, 2020
Publisher: Lucid Books Publishing
Have you ever found yourself doing the same thing over and over again without realizing it? Are you spiritually stuck, wanting a deeper relationship with God but not sure how to get there?
In The Butterfly Blueprint, Stephanie Miller uses each stage of a butterfly-egg, caterpillar, cocoon, and butterfly-to show you five ways to grow your faith. By examining how your past shapes your perspective and understanding of the value of authenticity and accountability in relationships, you will learn how to identify and address your spiritual blind spots that are hindering your growth.
Stephanie opens up her own journey of transformation while providing practical steps you can implement to see real progress in your spiritual life.
● Your purpose will become clearer.
● Your relationships will grow deeper.
● You will create a new perspective to share your story with others.
You were not created to remain a caterpillar your entire life. Let God change your perspective so He can transform you into the beautiful butterfly He made you to be.
About the Author
Stephanie Miller, M.A., is a certified personal growth coach, writer, and speaker. Currently living in Colorado, she is the wife of a busy Army dentist, and mom to a strong-willed toddler and sweet baby boy. Together they enjoy going on hiking adventures. Her ministry, Butterfly Beginnings, specializes in helping those who are spiritually stuck by catalyzing change through connection with the Holy Spirit. She seeks to encourage women and challenge them to grow closer to God and in community with each other. Her past published works include I Am Enough in Christ, a workbook and devotional. Connect with her at www.butterflybeginnings.net.
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Excerpt 1
Life is all about perspective. We hear all the time that perspective shapes our reality, but I believe our perspective is our reality; we know no other reality than this. We are subject to how our personal biases, beliefs, and emotions influence our perceptions.
In graduate school, I worked under a very well-known cognitive psychologist for my thesis. As a graduate student, I had the opportunity to learn more about cognitive psychology, the study of how our thoughts are influenced by many things and how they lead to our behaviors and actions.
The argument could be this: Do we have a choice when it comes to
our reactions or responses, or are they things that happen spontaneously and
that we cannot influence?
Excerpt 2
When we operate under a false understanding of ourselves, we act according
to that belief. If we believe we are worthless, not good enough, or unlovable,
we will act that way. Sometimes, we know we are acting in a way that shows how
we feel about ourselves, but more often than not, we are searching for things
that match our viewpoint of ourselves. We strive to have our reality match our
perception (even if it is a skewed, wrong, and horribly inaccurate perception).
So in pursuit of confirming what we believe to be true, we often create the
chaos ourselves. That is an example of what happens when we focus too much on
the wrong things and let the fallen ways of the world influence us. It would be
like a caterpillar eating all the wrong things in preparation to enter the
cocoon. Filling ourselves up with the wrong ideas and false teachings will lead
to these false perceptions of ourselves.
