holy moly - it’s true

I feel like I’m on the cusp of something great. Realizing and releasing some of my unexamined, deep rooted, incorrect beliefs of youth. 

Perhaps there is this awkward verge over which many before have scrambled prior to gratefully diving naked and head first into a freer way of being. 

I’m desperately scrambling up the side of it, longing for the abundant life of freedom Christ offers. Dipping a toe here and there, anxiously looking behind me to check if everyone else thinks this is an ok way for me to be.

Maybe these great witnesses who’ve gone before lovingly endeavored to spare future heartache, and as they crossed over they graciously threw back some tried and true quotes. Yet alas, there’s no teacher like experience, and sometimes we just don’t have ears to hear… until we do.

It’s when you start to realise there is no perfection to be obtained, only the making the best of any situation. 

When life gives you lemons, make lemonade

That there really is no arriving, or finally making it, the work will never be done, so it really is about being present and content in the process.

It’s the not the destination, it's the journey

Understanding that I will never be, or do enough to hold something together that simply isn’t going to be.

That sometimes the bravest thing to do is surrender.

If you love something, let it go

How caring so much about what others think to the point where I sacrifice myself and the relationships most important to me to try and please those who will never be pleased is futile and foolish.

Not my circus, not my monkeys 

How unwittingly being dragged back down into the mud only betrays the person I am created to be, and rather the greater way is to shake it off, keep the main thing the main thing as it all comes out in the wash eventually.

Keep calm and carry on

Thank you God for the wisdom that comes from experience, what beautiful consolation you offer. Only within life with You can one be excited to get older and look forward with hope to the beautiful wisdom that comes from enduring the inevitable heartache and hardships this world guarantees.