In order to get where you are meant to be, you have to fail. You have to come up against adversity or devastation to realize your strengths.
Unfortunately, too many times, we see those moments of being knocked down as some sort of punishment. We get stuck in a place where we beat ourself up over mistakes and bad choices. What we need to understand is we have to know what not to do to know what to do.
Sure people like our parents or verses from the Bible, tell us which paths are best to avoid mistakes. But our parents or our friends can’t tell us about every path because they don’t know every path. And the Bible does cover everything (if you actually read it), however people in the Bible had to make mistakes to learn the lessons from God and to rely on faith to bring them through.
I have made sooooooooo (lots of o’s I can add) many mistakes… Horrible choices that hurt me and others I love. But in so many ways those not so pretty parts of my life had to come to pass so I could learn real faith and come through the valley.
We have to pass through to become new.
I see so many people, friends, family, trying to avoid the valley.. Trying to do all the right things so they don’t have to go there. But let me tell you, life happens whether you want it to or not. So instead of avoiding it, face it.
Face the struggle, the addiction, the anger, the sadness, the insecurity, the necessary changes and take the responsibility for those the decisions you need to make to live how you want to live.
In avoiding difficult situations and decisons because they are scary and don’t feel good, you only perpetuate your unhappiness.
Or you can just do it. Do the work.. The nasty, frustrating, seemingly impossible work necessary to come through the valley. Trust yourself and trust God to bring you through so you can discover your new found strength.
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