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My confidence in myself was helping me move on and move forward. I was becoming so confident, that I began to rely on myself for everything. But the problem is, I can’t rely on myself for everything. I’m human and at the end of the day there are some things that are completely out of my control. There’s nothing wrong with being confident until you mistake grace shown in your life by something of your own doing.
We can go through countless life experiences, and we can learn all sorts of things from those experiences, but if we do not take what we’ve learned and put it into action in our future steps and choices, it is but a waste.
Your life isn’t over because one door closed, or even five. Your dream doesn’t have to end just because you have to take a different path to get there. These uncomfortable things you’ve learned are going to put you right on the path that you need to be on; the path of healing, growth, and self discovery.
Listen to me carefully… your ability to feel and care is a beautiful thing. This world needs more people like you. The intense love that you give others is not weakness; it’s one of your greatest strengths. Those tears that fall from all the feelings inside of you are not weakness. They’re proof that your sensitivity is your source of understanding and intuition.
What do you do when you think you’ve made it through the storm, and you can see small glimpses of sunlight breaking through the dark clouds, only to find that the storm isn’t over? That’s how I felt. It was like everything I hoped for was dangling on a string in front of me, and I was so close to grabbing it. The moment that I thought things were getting better, they actually got worse. And I wasn’t prepared for what that was going to do to me.
When we are unable to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves. When you reach that point in your life when you realize that you cannot change a person or the things they do, you’ve been given the greatest opportunity to change yourself and your own life. Things happen and you get to decide how you are going to respond to them, how you are going to let it affect you, and the person you are going to be when you come out the other end of it.
Do not be ashamed of your brokenness. When you reach that point in your life where the walls seem to cave in and the pain feels unbearable, know that you are in the process of being broken. It’s going to hurt and no part of it is pleasant, but don’t forget that in order to be made new, we must first be broken. And don’t forget that through your brokenness, the state of your heart is going to show.
Its nothing to be ashamed of. Feeling defeat does not make you a weak person. It does not make you any less strong. In fact, the greatest test of our courage is to bear defeat without losing heart. Its being able to cry and feel the hurt, but not forgetting that there’s something far greater at work through your experience. You’re going to encounter many defeats in your life, but that does not mean you will be defeated.
You see, it doesn’t matter who you are. At the end of each day, we are all searching for something to put our hope in and to hope for. You might place your hope in things such as money, a job, or possessions. Or perhaps you place your hope in other people and relationships. At some point in your life, those things will fail you, and my question to you is this: when those things that you placed your hope in, fail you, what do you have left to hope for?
Sometimes we can get so caught up in the difficulties and the bad times, that we forget about the bigger picture. Think about it… right now you could be stuck on one piece of the puzzle; one piece representing this hard time in your life. But what you might not realize is there’s so much more to your life’s puzzle. There’s going to be more bad times, but there’s also going to be more good times. The beauty of it all is that it takes both the bad and the good pieces to complete the unique puzzle of your life.
Life is hard. We all know that. You can be the most positive person in the world, and you could be living a great life. But the pain and the sorrows will still come your way. The good news is, you’re not alone. And the pain and the hard things you’re going through are not in vain. There is a purpose and there is a reason. You might not see that purpose now. Right now you might feel like you’re looking into a vast darkness and cannot see the rest of the staircase. And maybe that scares you.
You see, activity without purpose drains your life. I had to wake up and see the purpose in everything I was doing. The purpose of my job. The purpose of pursuing my relationships. The purpose of school. Everything I was giving effort to in my life, had to have purpose.
