Here We Go Again!!!

I am really getting sick and tired of being in this place time after time. I just feel like I’m never going to get ahead of my problems. I try my best to stay focused on my goals and dreams, but the very thing that I am trying to get over just keeps coming back to the forefront of my mind. I pray…the thought comes back. I read His word…the thought comes back. I try to do things to distract me from thinking about it…the thought just keeps coming back. I just feel like I’m being tortured over and over again. When is enough going to be enough? I just can’t take it anymore!!!

Have you ever been here? Feeling like no matter how hard you’ve tried to push through, the residue of your past just seemed to make itself at home in your life? Have you done everything in your power to fight the feelings and the thoughts, but it overtakes you? Well, can I tell you a secret?

I know just how it feels!

But here’s the good news. The incredible gospel artist and songwriter VaShawn Mitchell puts it this way, “It won't always be like this. The Lord will perfect that concerning me. And sooner or later, it will turn in my favor. It’s turning around for me.” Do yourself a favor and write that verse down. After you’ve done that, I want you to stand in the mirror, look at yourself and repeat it over and over again until you believe it from the depths of your soul. I know that it may seem challenging to believe when you’re in the midst of it, but I want you to understand that your life won’t always be like this. Some of us may not be going through this personally. Maybe you have taken on the burden of someone else that may be struggling with something and it affects you emotionally, just know the message is still the same….IT’S TURNING AROUND FOR YOU!!!

Life is full of so many things, but life lessons is on the top of the list. Every single thing that we go through or experience is to tied to a lesson. Some may pose the question, “So what lesson did I have to learn by…

…getting my heart broken?

…being molested?

…having a miscarriage?

…getting cancer?

…being abused?

…being lied on?

…being casted out?

…losing everything I had?

…being raped?

…being cheated on?

…being taken advantage?

WHAT WAS THE LESSON IN THIS???

Unfortunately, I, specifically, don’t have the answer to any of these questions. But what I do know is that you’re here to tell your story. Sis, you are stronger on your worst day than most people are on their best day. Why? Because you’re still showing up for yourself time after time. Whether you believe it or not, you have turned more lemons into lemonade that you could bottle it up, put it on the shelves and they would sell like hotcakes because you put your all into it. You didn’t feel like it, but you’re still here. Every obstacle imaginable came your way, but you’re still here. Your life turned upside down, BUT 👏🏽YOUR 👏🏽STILL 👏🏽HERE 👏🏽. And God was there all along.

His word says in Jeremiah 29:11, “For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.” God is the author for each of our life’s stories. We may not understand why some of those challenging story lines are in there, but we must trust His plan. His word says, “For My thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways My ways,” says the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts.” Isaiah 55:8-9 This is not God telling us that how we feel or what we think doesn’t mean anything, but rather He is telling us “I can see things that you cannot see and I can imagine things that you cannot imagine. So, trust Me when I tell you that I’ve got your best interest at heart.”

“[He] will never leave you nor forsake you.” Hebrews 13:5

You’ve got this because He’s got you!

Love Always,

Tamika