Believe in Your Own Fairytale by Kay-Marie Fletcher

Author:Kay-Marie Fletcher
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Religion/Christian Life/Inspirational/Spiritual Growth
Publisher: Elm Hill
Published: 2018-11-19T16:00:00+00:00

LOOKING FORWARD TO WHAT LIES AHEAD

When was the last time you took time to look at your journey?

No. Seriously? When?

So often we spend so much of our time looking at others (what they have, what they look like, and what they post on social media for us to believe is making them happy), yet we spend little to zero time analyzing where we’re at. I’ve asked this question today because I sit here and I look—I look back at everything I’ve been through. And I look at all that I’ve overcome. I look at all of my wrong turns, all of my mistakes, all of the things that I regret, and every broken relationship that brought me pain and heartbreak which eventually turned into strength, experience, and growth. I even look at the process of writing my first book. (My word, what a journey it has been.) Most importantly, I look at my walk with God. And taking time to do this has been the most refreshing thing I have done for myself in years.

What have you done for yourself lately?

I, like many others I’m sure, am also guilty of focusing so much on my future or crying over things in my past that I have no time left to appreciate and soak up my present.

Does this sound crazy? Or you’re guilty of this too?

I’ve also always rolled my eyes at the cliché, ‘Your present is a gift’ because well for one I detest clichés, and secondly I always miss that gift. However, what I’ve realized is that taking time to look at my journey (especially when I feel lost or aimless) is the key I need in order to forge ahead and so today, I can now comfortably look at what lies ahead. I once was of the belief—according to many therapists, wellness coaches, doctors, writers, etc.—that ‘most people are so lost’ and I began labeling myself as one of ‘those people.’ However, what I’ve come to understand is that we are not so much fanatically aimless or lost as we are quietly desperate. We’re not filled with confusion. Instead, we’re filled with emptiness. Dreams that never came to fruition plague us and wear us down. Oftentimes it tries to tear us apart. We know what our heart truly desires, but we’re consumed with so much of fear, disappointment, or fulfilling someone else’s dreams that we have no time left for ourselves. We have no time to look at our journey, and as such no time to truly focus on what lies ahead. Realizing this made me take a step back and analyze what I’ve been spending all my time doing or more so, not doing. And so today I write to suggest that maybe it’s time you do the same.

Imagine you had a free hour—just one, to be intimate with no one else but your thoughts, distraction-free, looking over your journey.

What does your journey say to you?

Does your journey show that you’ve been rejected from a job? Hit

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