After sharing so much about my background and the story I grew up knowing to be mine I have come to a point where the revelation has hit me that I can’t carry both the baggage of my past and the promise of my future to the green pastures lined up for me. There is just no room on the way for two conflicting stories.
A life is made up of one story with a series of moments and events until its completion and the commentary is another thing. The fact is a life was lived and what matters is the impact it had on the one whose it was. The defining moment for many a story is up to you the one whose it is not some mythical moment when the Earth stands still and just for the shortest of moments you catch a glimpse of a cosmic announcement etched in the constellations that your time has come and you may now proceed.
I came to my defining moment through revelation and this is why I will always be enthused by the good news. The truth is setting me free and my life has never been the same. There have been difficult moments and extremely borderline crazy happy moments punctuated by anxious panic attack plagued moments but all in all this is one amazing story and its mine.
I had to make a choice whether to stay disempowered because the first couple of decades of my life weren’t fantastic or to be a hero because despite that I am still here which says something about my durability. God is all powerful but even He needs our consent and cooperation to perform the life saving operation that often determines how the rest of our lives are going to go.
Because we have chosen to believe the good news I think it’s pretty clear which way our lives are meant to go. This isn’t to say that negative things will not happen but it says we will be so firmly anchored in our Source that when they inevitably do it’s really not a train smash. I don’t think God panics so neither should we.
Side note: talking about this just reminded me of a conversation I was having with one of the most wonderful souls I know. We were talking about unforgiveness and how it’s a huge hindrance to progress. His take was that grievances are inevitable and we should just get used to the fact that at any given moment someone is going to hurt or offend us and as such we should prepare in advance to accept and let it go.
This blew my mind because I always looked at it from the angle of why people had to step on my toes and that was source of difficulty in letting things go sometimes. I needed to know why they did it and then if I felt that the reason was logical then I would let it go more easily but if I didn’t like the reason or there wasn’t one then that was a kind of justification for me to permanently dislike them for it.
Thankfully we are on a journey of reformation and because we consistently renew our minds we start to do and be better. I am finding that preparation is my new magic word. It gets me up and out of my apartment by 6.30ish every morning to open my shop by 7 for a day that starts at 8.
It’s clear when I calculate my net worth that I don’t have much but much was never obtained by wallowing in the lack of it. The point of revelation is to apply new found wisdom to a sustainable direction of winning no matter what the circumstances present after the point of revelation.
The moment we accept Christ as our Saviour the YES light goes on in the realm of possibilities and our ‘ifs’ very quickly become ‘whens’ and it doesn’t matter what the when brings but a prepared soul is always more at peace than an unprepared soul. So be prepared to become something if you had always been nothing. Spend time preparing if you had never thought anything would happen for you because when it happens you will enjoy it so much more for your efforts of preparation.
These are some really good talks that I have watched and gotten such profound insight from. “The danger of a single story” by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (TED) and “Change your story, change your life” by Michael Hyatt (podcast on Youtube). My prayer today is for new inspiration to rewrite your story because you can. Amen
