What do you do when you can’t find the words to explain to those around you that the circumstance, the situation, the grip of the condition is so tight you can hardly get enough air into your lungs to keep breathing? What do you do when you can’t stop the tears and every waking moment reminds you of the pain? What do you do when you can’t say a word and you’re so tired of the battle that all you want to do is lie down and give up? What do you do when the systems of this world fail you?

These are some of the words I’ve had to remember and speak to myself in years past: “The Lord, You, are my Sheppard; I shall not be in want! You make me to lie down in green pastures. You lead me beside the still waters. You restore my soul. You lead me in the paths of righteousness for your name sake. Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me." Psalm 23:1-4.

And when the pressure increased, I remembered: “But we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this all-surpassing power is from God and not from us. We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed." 2 Corinthians 4:7-9.

I have come to realize that my answer to the call or agreeing with my purpose has not come without a price. Neither does yours. I realize I could not emphatically encourage you or sincerely empathize with you if I, myself, did not experience life’s ups and downs. I could not teach you how to soar in the storm unless I knew how to soar in the storm. I could not teach you how to turn adversities into victories unless I face adversity and turn it into victory. I could not teach abundant living, if I did not know and understand abundant living—in spite of illusions in the conscious mind. I could not show you or tell you how to rise and walk, if I could not or did not know how to rise above my ill circumstance, pick up my bed of affliction, and walk.

I wish today I could hand you a quick fix, honestly. I wish today I could make all the wrongs that life has brought you, right. I wish I could take away all of your pain, immediately. I wish I could turn your cards of life into a royal straight flush. But, I can’t. However, this is what I can do. I can encourage you to hold on. I can tell you and show you how to not give up and not give in. I can lead you toward love, light and healing. And, if you choose such, you will walk into abundant living—in this life, not just the next. You will see JUSTICE, in this world not just the next. You will experience JOY and HAPPINESS not just later, but now. Yes, in this life!

Now, more than ever, you’ve got to hold onto your faith. And, when the systems of this world give you a resounding no, go to the center of you—tap into the very essence of you, and listen. Listen until you hear a resonating YES and hear how you’re supposed to proceed. I don’t care what your doctor has told you, it doesn’t matter what the judge’s verdict or sentence, or even what your mind-chatter or donkey talk is telling you. Today—Hold On, BELIEVE, DON’T GIVE UP, and DON’T GIVE IN.

Remember this; if you want a miracle, you have to be in motion. If you’ve done all you know to do, then STAND knowing there is a power in you. And, though it may seem as if the Universe, whom I call God, doesn’t hear or He’s forsaken you and left you to go it alone, rest assured, He's right smack dab in the middle of you. Thereby, He is right smack dab in the middle of what you may perceive as crazy, insane circumstance.

You co-create your world and with a little hope, and living in the now with as much joy as possible you can create an amazingly beautiful life for yourself and those around you. This is hardly the time to give up or give in. It's the time to press on and press through. It's the time to walk in your passion, your purpose and your calling tapping into all your abundance within.

Though there is a lot of talk about doom and gloom, I choose to believe otherwise. I choose to believe this is the time of amazing unprecedented change requiring great responsibility from each and every person. It's a time where thoughts easily meld into beautiful realities and dreams manifest almost instantly. It is a time when all the magnificence and greatness within becomes the outward seen glory.

Yes it's 2012. Be patient and hold on. Your amazing change is coming!

Author's Bio: 

Pamela Chapman, aka Nissi Clark, is an author, teacher and facilitator who assists in healing wounded souls--women coming through or out of difficult life-transition wanting to walk into their purpose, passion and life calling.

Chapman was born and raised in the Bronx, New York relocating to Orange County, California, with her newborn, at the young age of 20. New York and Orange County life taught her how to not only be persistent and tenacious, but how to be resilient. Armed with a MIS degree, the door to her career was obstructed but this did not stop her.

She served 29 years in corporate America working her way up to an executive management position where she served behind the closed doors of some of O.C.s elitist companies. She organized and facilitated diversity workshops resulting in increased self-esteem and communication helping to stabilize turnover in two offices. She founded and led the Community Involvement Committee, and sought philanthropic opportunities for her employer in her last position.

It was then Chapman realized she truly had a passion for helping others and soon left her profit world for the nonprofit community. Serving four years as a case manager to residentially-challenged families, she mentored and coached hundreds of women and children resulting in their self-sufficiency, increased self-esteem, renewed hope and new beginnings.

She has facilitated numerous workshops in both California and Colorado. She conducts successful online services to include webinars tele-workshops, tele-trainings and FB videos. Some of her work is archived online.

Her book Heaven's Hell, The Beginning, under the pen name Nissi Clark, is based on her true-life experiences. The book is a fictional piece that not only dramatizes the emotional, psychological and physiological effects of domestic violence upon a young life, but also provokes thought and pronounces words of healing, simultaneously, throughout its chapters.