Try, try again!

I had the opportunity of watching Evelyn "Champagne" King on Unsung. She spoke about her child that was born too early and how she couldn't pull life support. She spent everyday nursing her daughter to health only to have her pass on anyway. She spent the following years without conceiving again. I don't know if that was a choice due to the pain of her previous offsprings death or if she wasn't able.

As I was riding home from work, that story came in my head and I thought; if she decided against having a child when she remarried, she could have missed out on such a blessing. God allowed me to start seeing some things in my life that I refused to challenge myself to because of mental trauma from previous outcomes that weren't in my favor (so I thought).

We sometimes let history dictate our future. We refuse to get married again because we're afraid it might end the same way as before. We decide not to go back to school because when we first tried, we failed. We decide not to apply for higher positions at our jobs because we didn't get the first promotion we applied for. We decide not to go buy another home because we foreclosed on the first one. We handicap ourselves from having great blessings because of the fear of failure or the same outcome. Some mental traumas come just to make us stronger. To make us work harder the next time around. To make us think smarter. To make us love harder. To make us reach higher. Sometimes things don't happen for us because God has something greater. In order to get you to move on those things or be open to receive those things, He has to take you from out of your comfort zone.

Keep your ears available for God to speak to you. Allow His will to be done in your life. Allow your best to shine through you. But most importantly, be ready when God is ready to move you!

Tell me about some things you would like to do that prior experiences handicapped you from doing? Or have you decided to no longer be captive to a prior situation. Let's talk about it.


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