Damn it!
In the midst of a valley experience, the temptation is to look at all the things you can’t do and the list of reasons why.
The human ego always encourages us to hold on to our limitations. It always seems easier to look at what is wrong rather than stretch to what could possibly be just fine. If we would see things as perfectly fine, just the way they are, no matter what they are, we might realize we are fine too. For some of us, this is a far stretch. But that’s fine, and so are you.
If you are alive, that’s fine. If you have a vision for tomorrow, that’s fine. People may be pressuring you or upset with you. That’s fine. You may be upset, afraid, angry, and anxious, that’s just fine. You will get over it. If you can remember a time, any time when you were in a fix, a jam, a place in your life you did not want to be, that is fine. Now, can you remember that you are not where you were anymore? Or realize you made it through… somehow? Haven’t you always gotten what you needed? And when you didn’t, you made it through anyway. Perhaps things did not work out the way you wanted, but they are turning out. Most important of all, they are turning out to be just fine.
No matter what, it’s fine.
Pg 40
Faith in the Valley
Iyanla Vanzant
Leave a Reply