Thursday 3 January 2019
Allow me to reintroduce myself
We have all heard of the well known motivational phrase, “What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger”, but I would like to tweak it a tad for my friends to "What doesn't does kill you makes you stronger". For my friends who have experienced some things that may not have killed you physically, however it most definitely felt like it killed you emotionally, or may have killed your happiness and tried to kill your finances or several other areas in your life the past year. It’s not very popular to talk about or discuss the downfalls one may have faced and I personally don’t like to glorify them. However, I do feel for healing purposes and moving on facing them is essential. I certainly experienced various forms of pain in 2018 the most prominent was experiencing a loss towards the end of the year. It definitely did not kill me but it almost felt like it did.
Recently my grandpa’s passing was one of those painful experiences, it emphasised that life is but a vapour, that the life we live on earth is nothing in comparison to eternity. It taught me that you can acquire everything you want here but the impact you leave here on earth is what you impress in people’s hearts. A lot of the time we can get consumed in our pain or hurt and sometimes get stuck but if we are able to draw strength to look past these hurts beneath the surface we could potentially find some lessons. Have you ever thought that everything you went through last year could have been on purpose??
Through last year at certain points I almost stopped recognising myself and the person my emotions had turned me into. I’m not sure if anybody can relate to this but it is an unusual feeling living everyday life yet not feeling like yourself. What I didn't realise was a lot of that feeling was due to the transition season that I was in, between who I was and who I was becoming. It’s an uncomfortable state of re-learning a lot of things about yourself again, it’s when you undergo change, not just one but a series of changes one after the other which can also have an unsettling effect on you. Why am I telling you this? It's because for anyone who may have experienced something slightly similar to this I want you to know I did also. The weight of your issues may have felt like it crushed you but you survived them. Upon a lot of reflection last year I started to ask myself a series of questions and one of them I will propose to you.
Could if be that heaviness wasn’t to kill you but you needed to go through a reconstruction?
Reconstruction is A thing that has been rebuilt after being damaged or destroyed. Which means that certain people had to go, situations needed to change and your perspective needed to shift so you could be propelled into what God has planned for you in 2019.
I named the title of this blog post "allow me to re-introduce myself "because this year we are not going to allow fear, anxiety, depression or failure keep us bound. We are not going to allow the downfalls and sad moments of last year to define our year this year. We are in the art of constructing and building our lives into the large structures we envision them to be.
1 Peter 5:10 - And after you have suffered a little while, the God of all grace, who has called you to his eternal glory in Christ, will himself restore, confirm, strengthen, and establish you.
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