Or run the risk of remaining stuck…
When storms come, winds throw waste throughout the city, trees collapse on landlines and, debris scatters everywhere. But after days, even weeks pass, the city collects the fallen branches delivers them to where they need to go and garbage is swept away. Throughout the seasons, we see the remaining trees budding ready bear leaves and humans begin to plant for the following fall.
Every season in life calls for something new. Like trees, you won’t be able to decide what falls from your side or uproots you. Family and friends could leave you, loved ones can leave you, lovers, jobs, pets, your health, your peace, can leave you. Yet, like trees do not stop being trees when leaves fall and you do not stop growing when you no longer have something or someone apart of your life. When leaves die and return, that’s a sign that the tree is still alive and still growing. When things remove themselves or remove you, you a don’t stop living and preparing for something new. Nothing living stops growing.
There are occurrences in our life that we did not foresee, some we saw a mile away, some were just out of our control. Despite that, we have the responsibility of dealing with it in the best way we know how. Babies as young as 6 months begin to stand on their own two feet and walk. Imagine being brand new to this world and having the courage to walk and run despite how many times you’ve fallen. They keep walking and running because there is freedom in movement. With mobility, they are able to reach for food, toys, and other stimuli to help entertain or sustain them. It’s not long before what they’re reaching for is no longer out of reach and they begin reaching for a new thing. They have nothing holding them back from growing, not the fear of failure, no relationship, no obligation, they are just open to possibilities of new.
When you are ready for something new you can’t let people, places or things distract you from the opportunity to spring forward. The burdens of your past, feelings of uncertainty, the fear of failure, the apprehension of taking a step further or the comfort of what’s familiar. Those are pesky blockages preventing you from the freedom to grow and the opportunity to advance. Through every trial and tribulation you were forced to find new ways to excel and overcome whatever roadblock stopping you from getting to the other side. Once you’ve climbed that mountain once impossible to climb you learned how to carry yourself up and over to the other side. There will be more mountains, lessons and opportunities to expand! As long as you are alive you are in the position to transition into something or someone new.
Make no mistake, you can be grieving, lose your way, feel like a failure, become a victim of overthinking and depression. You can be petrified, scared to death and still walk in the spirit of newness anyway. You can feel like an imposter, not good enough, not smart enough and still walk in the spirit of opportunity. Two things can be true at once, you have to know with dual understanding of your fears and potential. Despite doubt, you still need to act with a knowing that there is greater later!
Oprah was a child who experienced and witnessed abuse at the hands of her grandmother. At the time when corporal punishment was/is commonplace in the Black parenting she remembers being beat so badly blood stained through a dress she was wearing for church one Sunday. She had nightmares and bad sleeping because of a time she woke up and saw her grandmother being choked by her grandfather. There were times where she had no shoes, no home and was sleeping in her car. You would think someone who fits this profile could never be as big as Oprah but SHE IS. She is because she knew there was something new despite what was in her past. No one ever looked like her or talked like her on daytime television. Those slots were relegated for white men and women but there was a season for something new.
Imagine if Oprah let her past keep her in abuse, trauma and chaos. Her grandmother couldn’t fathom the life she lives now, it didn’t exist. Oprah had to create something new.
Ciara did not have it easy romantically. She publicly dated Bow Wow, 50 Cent and Future. Naysayers would say she doesn’t deserve the man that Russell Wilson is because she dated bad boys and shares a baby with one. She was talked about disparagingly by the father of her child and thousands of strangers for leaving him. When she revealed that she married a man who loves her and her son, people claimed she was a bad mother and Russell an ill-fit step father. Those allegations couldn’t be further from the truth.
But, Ciara prayed for a man like Russell. She prayed to become a woman suitable for Russell. She was in the season for the newness of a love that she deserved. Nayvadius and the naysayers did not stop Ciara from being Ciara or being loved out loud with the world to see.
What makes you different from a woman who has been abused and lost everything? What makes you different from a woman who made poor decisions in love and was made a laughing stock? NOTHING. Things happened out of their control and some by their own volition, and you are no different. These women made the conscious decision to do something about their position, despite the reality of their circumstance, and climbed over mountains. What is your mountain? What are you ready to release? How are you preparing for something new?
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