Stop waiting for life to be easy before you can be happy.
Someday you will be happy but that day is when you realize that’s not all you are.
Stop waiting for life to be easy before you can be happy. Stop believing that something out there will spontaneously heal the things that require your love and attention right here and right now. Stop thinking that the realization of whatever you want will be better than the repetitive process of getting there because your life happens in that process. That is the journey. That is the point.
Your life happens in the years when it feels like nothing is working but really your roots are spreading and strengthening to be able to withstand the magnitude of growth that will eventually be visible from above ground. Your life happens in the breakthroughs and the leaps forward but also in the steps back, the recalibrations, and the micro-shifts to a new way of thinking, of acting, of being. Your life happens in the moments you are most sure you’re going to make it and in the ones you can’t see how you possibly could.
I hope that when you’re standing in an answered prayer you see it for what it is, an undeniable reminder to trust the timing of your life. I hope that when you dream about where you wish to arrive next you consider how you once wondered how you would ever…
