It's Not Supposed to Be This Way

This. So much truth.

I found myself in its pages and in its words. Although my struggle and my “I don’t know” is different, the pain is the same—the loss of what was supposed to be.

I have had to learn to let go of perfection and expectations and to trust in Him. Not just say I trust in Him, but to live trusting in Him. To give my faith walking legs.

I have also learned that I am not alone.

In some way, we are all turned “upside down” at some point in our lives. But it is from that new perspective, when real connection, authenticity and compassion happen.

It is the “breaking of us. The making of us. The building up of our faith.”

He is strengthening us for His purpose.

Our faith can offer a foundation of hope for others when they too are upside down.

When we “can’t find our footing with our own faith...we can go and stand on someone else’s for a while.”

Thank you Lysa for allowing me to stand on yours.

We all really are “beautiful souls held together by equal amounts of belly laughs and serious sorrow.”

That is life.

Laughter and Tears.
Joy and Pain.
Upside down.
Right side up.

I am messy. I am marvelous. I am so very alive.