The Strength Within

If it were up to most of us, we would avoid all manner of pain and discomfort.  Yet, it is the very things that we wish to avoid that brings our awareness of the strength within us.  There this abundance of strength sits in this untapped space. 

We wonder if there’s more…. If there’s more of us somewhere.  We often wonder how to achieve that version of us that we see in glimpses in our dreams or in moments of confidence and extreme faith. 

We think it’s just easier and better to take the easy route, to avoid the mountains ahead.  We’d love to just arrive on the other side.  But it’s in climbing the mountains, that we realize, that we could have just spoken to them and commanded them to move out of our way.  It’s in the roads that lead to the mountains where our diligence is formed.  It’s in the valleys where those low moments give us a unique perspective on how to win in the high ones.

If we are never broken, from where will the things that seemed trapped inside of us, ever flow from?  We have no way of actually pinpointing where they are. We know it’s there, but how do we get to “it”?  I submit that it’s through every moment that came to break you, yet you stood strong that we find it.  It is in those moments when you chose to believe one more day that there is value in your life and that you are important.  Because you are. 

Take a few moments now and consider all of the things that you learned during your last trial or hard time. Then consider how they gave you a better, truer vision of who you are.  The You that GOD created!