Heroes and Giantslayers by Rhenardo Worrell (books to read in a lifetime txt) 📖

is unlimited creative ability in your thinking and unlimited goodwill in your care and forgiveness for yourself and others working together.”

 

As she listened to him talk she thought about him saying like God.

 

“Your husband used heromotive lenses to examine and exercise his beliefs so that he would not lose confidence in what he believed. There are four heromotive lenses that I use all the time,” he continued.

 

“The heromotive ego lens is heromotive acceptance that confirms your identity. When you accept that you have heromotive you acknowledge that you are like God seeing yourself through this lens. Repeat after me: I am like heromotive acceptance that confirms my identity so I am like God.

 

She did not say anything at first. She stared at the elder. She wondered about what he was asking her to say. Then she thought this is exactly what he had taught. She took a breath and said, “I am like heromotive acceptance that confirms my identity so I am like God.”

 

“The heromotive sacrifice lens is heromotive at a cost that can be seen and cannot be repaid,” he stated. “You acknowledge your significance when you see yourself through this lens. Repeat after me: I am like heromotive at cost that can be seen and cannot be repaid so I am significant."

She repeated after him.

 

Seizing the moment he added, “the heromotive authority lens is heromotive that speaks identity into existence”. He instructed her to see herself through this lens to acknowledge that her words have power. “Repeat after me” he directed. “I am like heromotive that speaks identity into existence so my words have power.”

 

She paused only for a moment but followed his instructions.

 

He touched her hand with his free hand while still holding his cellphone in the other. “The heromotive connection lens is heromotive that covers others with relationships you create that never fail,” he said plainly. “You acknowledge that your life has purpose when you see yourself through this lens. Repeat after me: I am like heromotive that covers others with relationships I create that never fail so I have purpose,” he instructed.

 

Again she followed his instructions.

 

“These lenses helped your husband meditate on heromotive to fight his doubts. He acknowledged his identity, his significance, his power and his purpose to achieve wholeness. Your husband used unlimited goodwill to give care and forgiveness to himself and others working together to overcome his mistakes, his flaws and his fears.”

 

She was overwhelmed. She no longer used her napkin. Her tears flowed down her face. She rocked slowly in the wooden chair of the coffee house. She could hear herself breathing, occasionally looking at the ceiling. She placed the palms of her hands on the table. She tapped her fingers on the wood. She had condemned herself for not being able to meet the financial needs of her family. She needed the forgiveness he spoke about too.

 

He heard her whisper something about forgiveness under her breath. It wasn’t clear to him. She was putting heromotive to work. She let go of the anger she hid in her heart following her husband’s death. She was angry about her situation and at everyone who didn’t understand that she was left to fend for herself.

 

He waited until she was looking at him before he began again. “What are you feeling?” he asked.

 

She thought about his question as the tears continued to fall. She told him that she didn’t realize how angry she had become.

 

He told her when she is angry, it is more helpful to work at honestly talking out her feelings than to try to change the people that contributed to her angry feelings.  He explained that talking is a way to release anger by acknowledging your own feelings in order to put the focus on pursuing peace according to heromotive and not on changing people. He said people will respond to her conviction like water in a cup if she remained consistent in pursuing peace knowing that she controls the cup not the water.

 

“This doesn’t mean you allow people to mistreat you,” he said. “You are never supposed to be satisfied with wrong. Like a flood allow heromotive in you to raise a standard against what’s wrong to respond effectively without being led by anger,” he instructed.

 

“Sometimes I just want to be angry,” she said emphatically.

 

"Then be angry," he replied. "Fear that you are or will be ignored, taken for granted, or taken advantage of are good examples of reasons to hold on to anger and resentment or worse unforgiveness. It’s understandable, but don’t respond in anger, even with good reasons holding on to anger and resentment poisons your thinking. You have to release it based on what you now know about fear to renew your thinking using heromotive lenses."

 

"Why? I was abandoned by everyone. I have to put my guards up so that people can’t continue to disappoint me," she responded.

 

"Your mother and your children didn't abandon you," he replied. "You were hurt by other people. Ask yourself this, how do I respond to hurt in a way that keeps me productive in my whole life? Putting your guards up is emotional self-effort that only helps you feel better temporarily. It doesn't help you move forward," he explained.

 

"How do I move forward?" she asked.

 

"You move forward by releasing anger and resentment with your words by forgiving yourself for holding on to it, freeing your thinking from this poison. See yourself through heromotive lenses to renew your mind so that heromotive flows freely and uninterrupted which is unlimited creative ability in your thinking and unlimited goodwill for yourself and others working together," he instructed.

 

This sounded so simple and so complicated to her. She just wanted to keep her house. She just wanted to be whole.

 

The elder was still looking at Kim as he continued. "Oftentimes anger and resentment is rooted in fear and your significance is the tool to nullify the effects of fear. The word significant means meaningful and measurable. It is not an opinion or value statement. Your husband knew his significance and saw himself through the heromotive sacrifice lens to nullify the effects of fear. He was able to face the whirlwind of fear and the giants it created in order to stay confident in what he believed, deciphering and defeating his doubts."

 

Her tears fell silently as she listened to the elder. She missed her husband.

Significance

Chapter 4

 

The elder was empathetic to Kim’s tears, but he did not lose focus.

 

He said, "fear cannot diminish your significance and knowing your significance is part of your visceral need for wholeness.”

 

He stopped and asked, “do you know what I mean?”

 

She nodded her head slowly in agreement, but she wasn’t sure.

 

“Many labor to get lots of money in pursuit of significance but find out that this effort falls short because permanent significance cannot be found in temporary things like money,” he stated.

 

He was not rushing through his conversation with her. He paused to see if she had questions. When she indicated she understood he continued.

 

“Conversely many labor to give away what they possess in their self-effort to deny themselves to obtain significance but they discover that self-effort alone is insufficient to gain significance as a guarantee.”

 

The elder spoke with an urgency that gave emphasis to his words.

 

“Significance is not earned,” he declared. “When you were born your mother agreed to shed her own blood for you at birth. This was a significant cost paid for your life. A cost that cannot be repaid. Consequently you are significant because the cost for your life is significant. It has a blood cost associated with it that can be seen. That means you were born significant. The heromotive sacrifice lens is heromotive at a cost that can be seen and cannot be repaid. When you accept that you’re significant you have the tool to nullify the effects of fear."

 

She didn’t completely know how this addressed her debts but he had her attention and she wanted to know.

 

"Sir, how does significance pay my bills?” she asked respectfully. “No one cares about my significance. I can't put it on my resume. It doesn’t make money."

 

Before he replied he gathered himself. He looked at the phone in his hand as a distraction. It was important for him to provide instructions and not argue with her reactions.

 

"You’re right significance doesn't pay bills,” he answered, “but knowing that your significance cannot be diminished by your fears yields fearlessness. This fearlessness produces confidence that you are always significant. This is vital for everyone. No matter what happens to you, you are significant.”

 

He realized this was new information. He didn’t rush.

 

He continued, “Christians use a similar concept of significance. They believe that the death and resurrection of one person paid a blood cost for their spiritual lives. They believe their spiritual lives are significant because the blood cost paid for it is significant, and no whirlwind can diminish this cost.”

 

“Your bills have become giants, created by the whirlwind of fear. When you accept your significance you become fearless and these giants will encounter your confidence. You stand confidently in your significance to face the giants turning them into learning experiences. Now facing each giant becomes a teachable moment. You can always gain from these experiences if you treat them like lessons."

 

She never heard this before. He was showing her how to use her significance to face the giants. Even at her worse he proved her significance. It was comforting, but did this mean she had to lose her house as a lesson she thought.

 

“Now, let’s go from facing your fears to taking action,” he said. “To do this you must understand the substance of your hopes according to heromotive and the evidence of your belief” he explained.

 

She nodded her head affirmatively.

 

“Belief is an overwhelming conviction of the truth about something or someone. Heromotive words you understand and rely upon are the substance of things hoped for according to heromotive and the evidence of your belief,” he explained. “Words like significance are planted in your thinking when they become evidence of your belief,” he said.

 

“You’re saying words become evidence?” she asked.

 

“Not every word,” he replied, “there are different kinds of words. There are vain words full of pride, negative words full of fear, and empty words full of selfishness. They lack heromotive so they cannot become your evidence. Those words can only become pride, fear, and selfishness. Words with heromotive that you understand and rely upon to achieve your hopes according to heromotive are the evidence of your belief.”

 

She gave her attention to his instructions.

 

He said, "when significance becomes your evidence it is planted in your thinking like a seed. This seed produces confidence.”

 

Planting a word like seed was new to Kim.

 

The elder was not in a rush. He knew these terms were unfamiliar. He put his phone on the table. The elder continued to discuss words that become the evidence of her belief according to heromotive.

 

He knew this was a lot but she was ready for it. “Words that are the evidence of your belief work for you; leading and directing your steps to success according to heromotive,” he concluded.

 

He encouraged her to ask questions but she did not.

 

“As a student of hermotive you pay attention to words to get understanding in order to discover if they