This is for CB...May your life always be filled with bright red cardinals and sweet, sweet music...I love you my friend and wish you peace and happiness in all your days on earth.
We all have one of these in our minds...
A box where we store hurtful & painful memories...
Someone who didn't like you in grade school...
A love lost from so long ago...
An ugly exchange between you and someone you love...
Hateful words hurled during an argument...
D-Days aplenty for those of us affected by infidelity...
All under lock and key in this little box...
I told a friend yesterday to put everything away in it & not to open it and then the thought stayed right on the outside of my conscience for the rest of the day/night.
When I woke up this morning I knew what I had told him was wrong...
You see that part of me still lives in fear and we have discussed fear over and over right here...
If you become to fearful to try new things, you will end up running from everything and avoiding adversity at all costs.
Fear is a very debilitating emotion...
It will hold you back and keep you stuck right where you are...
You ask yourself questions over and over and over again and each time the questions are answered in fear...
Fear of the unknown...
It is easier to take the "safe" path no matter how unhappy you are then it is to venture onto the unknown path.
Before you can even take that step onto the unknown path, you have to ask yourself "What if" ?
You also need to know within, you are strong enough to face the answers to the "What if" questions even if it something you don't want to hear.
Fear kept me from releasing everything from my Pandora's Box...
I still held onto the ugliness that kept me from moving forward...
If you always do everything the same way because you are scared of screwing up, then the best results you can ideally expect are the same ones that you have received all along.
So what do you do?
What is the opposite of fear?
Bravery.
Within bravery comes courage...
Courage to push forward towards what you want for your life.
New love...New happiness...New friends...New ideas...New dreams...New life.
Within courage comes resolution...
Within resolution - Your wings to fly.
Go ahead and open up your box...
Release everything that is holding you back...
Everything that is keeping you from your happiness...
All the sadness and pain that is weighing you down...
Release the fear of the unknown.
My box is wide open...
All the tragedy and ugliness released and just like Pandora's Box -
The only thing left in my box -
Hope.
Steven Curtis Chapman
Out Of These Ashes
Beauty Will Rise
And We Will Dance Amoung The Ruins
We Will See It With Our Own Eyes
The feeling of resolution is awesome sometimes isn't it????
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