Hi…well came back like I said I would!! Part of being able to handle this SHIFT thing is to be able to handle adversity!! There are many voices that come at us everyday!! Voices that would like us to quit, get in fear, and lose faith and confidence!! The more we press on and keep going the stronger we get!!
Lets get back to the time when I went through the crime…how did this affect my life? Honestly, when the man was holding the knife to my throat I made a deal with God, I told Him that if He would let me live I would do whatever He wanted me to on this earth. Hence, me doing this right now. My survival always has depended on what kind of purpose there was in it and what good could come out of it!!! So the good is, helping others walk out of hard things.
The next day I did get up and go to work at the hair salon where I worked. When I drove there that morning the world seemed like a whole different place to me. I knew I was alive for a reason and a purpose. So when you go through change if you can stop and find the good in what you are facing. I know you say but what if it’s a death of your child or your spouse? I know, seems unfair doesn’t it? Seems like you can’t live again or breath anymore yourself. Grieving is allowed… sometimes even grieving when a good new thing happens in your life. Because sometimes you have to grieve and accept that life will just never be the same again. It really is ok for life to never be the same again though. That leaves the door open for the SHIFT of things and the new things before you. Some of the good feelings can’t come until you have gone through all of the stages to acceptance. If everything would have just kept going the same old way I wouldn’t have changed enough to be who I am today and I would be settling for status quo which has not been my life at all. I pretty much learned to live like every day might be my last day and that’s a good thing.
People get in ruts and get stuck in everyday things that get so boring but they don’t want to change. I think sometimes when you do that, you finally get blinded and don’t realize that you have made yourself quite a constructive cocoon to live and be safe in and if something comes along to shake you and rock your world you are totally not prepared at all. That doesn’t seem like a very safe place to be at all to me. That seems like a deceptive thing to me.
But then again, I was the one that promised God that I would do anything that He wanted me to on this earth and I think He made sure I have had some huge learning experiences to become ready and willing to plunge into some things He would have me do.
The experiences were like college to me, and they made me stronger, and they let me roll in the dirt sometimes and experience what other people go through, and it made me see things from other’s perspective, and it made me love unlovable people more and it made me walk in a different realm of life. It made me let go of me and be the me He needed on this earth…
More tomorrow…let change happen, its alllllll good!👍🏼