The person you’re meant to be with will never have to be chased, begged or given an ultimatum.
I’m still here. The doubt, the fear, the heartbreak, the depression, the anxiety, the insecurity: It didn’t win. The people who hurt me and let me down: They didn’t win. The disappointment and the failure, and the hopes and deferred dreams: Nope. They didn’t win either.
Perhaps sometimes in life, no matter how much you want to, you can’t grow into the person you are meant to be while you’re standing in the shade or the sunlight of someone else.
She has moments of panic when she wonders if her Prince Charming got lost somewhere or decided to settle for another less complicated, less stubborn, less independent princess.
What now seems wrong, unfair, and ridiculous will all make sense later.
How different things could go when you included God in the plan.
It is often in our loneliest times that God speaks the loudest.
You’re brave enough to have the audacity to believe still that maybe, just maybe, someone at this very moment might be wishing on the same star as you are for someone just like you.
Some relationships just don’t work out, no matter how bad both parties might want them to. Sometimes time, distance, and circumstances get in the way. And sometimes we have a purpose for our lives that couldn’t be fulfilled inside the bounds of that relationship.
God never promised we wouldn’t know pain. He isn’t the author of it, but He isn’t the bodyguard blocking it from us, either. Jesus Himself knew intense, agonizing pain. The worst kind, as a matter of fact. Betrayal. False accusations. A humiliating death on a cross for a crime He didn’t commit. No, God never promised us we wouldn’t know pain. That we wouldn’t know Ground Zero moments and dark nights of the soul. What He DID promise was to be with us in the midst of our pain.
Be vulnerable. Take a chance. Step outside your comfort zone. Try something new and daring and audacious. Maybe it’s changing jobs or changing cities or simply changing your hair color. But do something different than what you do every single day. Take a risk. Even if you’re not ready to. Because you never know how important and vital the sentence you’re writing today is to the bigger story your life is trying to tell.
If you surrender your self-worth to someone who doesn’t see your true value, what happens when someone comes along who wants to give you what you’re worth instead of what you’ll settle for? The bottom line: You’ve got to know your worth, at.
You lose everything you think is so vital to your very existence because God longs for you not just to see but to truly grasp that all you really need in this life is Him.
My journey, however, has followed a far less predictable story: stalled chapters, unexpected plot twists, and dozens of rewrites that have left the ending more than a little uncertain.
Your thoughts are like a magnet; they determine what you attract. So if you want to live in abundance, stop focusing on what you lack!
The whole world can be behind you and believe in you, but if you can’t believe in yourself, you’re only going to stay stuck.
And somewhere along the way, amidst all the loss, tears, triumph, tragedy, joy, pain, laughter, transformation, restoration, lessons, love, and life, you realize that the true meaning of it all isn’t to settle for merely a Happy Ending, but to hold out for a Happy Everything.
When we overthink, we stop acting boldly and hide behind.
The real fairy tale is designing a life that’s so amazing that you don’t want to be rescued from it.
Rid yourself of all the things you’ve outgrown and the things you’re meant to grow into will track you down!