Feel It, but Shift.

Sometimes the hardest part of pain isn’t feeling it, it’s how move forward in life from it. It will always come to a point in our lives where we’ll go through heartbreak, go through life changes, go through things that just simply does not feel the best. I remember getting so upset with people who told me “life goes on.”

 In the moment, it would feel like they were saying suck it up, but truly it just means that you can have your moment, but you have to move with life, because life doesn’t stop just because you did. You are allowed to be angry, upset, confused but you also have to move forward in life. You can feel it but you have to shift, sit in your feelings but do not stay there.

I know what it feels like to be stuck, to be upset, to feel like you’re in the dark but how will you get to the light if you stay where you are? You have to get up and move. What if every time we went through something, we stayed in it? Where would that put us? Where would it put us mentally, physically, spiritually, emotionally? I know from experience that it would not be a great place. Today, I want you to move through it. I’m not saying a breakthrough will come today or tomorrow, but every step that we take we’re moving closer to where we need to be.

Do whatever it is you need to do to make that shift. Read your Bible or a book you love, listen to a podcast, vent to a friend, go to therapy, or simply just sit in nature and feel the sunlight. The only way is through; you just have to push through the obstacles to get to your win. It’s okay to feel the pain, that’s the way to grow and help the next person through their experience.  

Isaiah 43: 2 “When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and when you pass through the rivers, they will not sweep over you. When you walk through the fire, you will not be burned; the flames will not set you ablaze.”