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Are You Doubting the Sunrise? Cuz, Stop.

faith god Aug 06, 2020
 

If I haven't been upfront about this yet, I have very drastically turned into someone I never thought I would be. In fact, I would have bet against you if you had told me this is the type of person I would be.

Not a bad person. A really great person. A really fulfilled person. A wake up at the butt crack of dawn on purpose kind of person.

So this morning I woke up at 5 am to...get this...write in my journal. Yeah. I do that kind of shit now. Crazy. I know.

As I walked out into our dark kitchen to pour myself a cup of coffee, I peeked out the window and thought, "It would be so cool to watch the sun come up." I mean, I'm waking up at 5 am, I may as well take full advantage of the views it has to offer right?

I grabbed my journal, my book, my coffee, and 2 blankets. One for the wet grass, and one to snuggle up in.

As I spread my blanket onto the wet grass next to the dirt patch in our back yard that will most likely never go away, I caught a glimpse of my neighbor silently judging me from the corner of his eye. It's all good. We've lived by one another for 4 years, he knows I'm a weirdo. Still, I figured I would do us both a favor and avoid the early morning WTF are you doing? chit chat.

I got myself situated and I began to journal.

Occasionally I would look up at the colors in the sky as they slowly started to change. Still no sign of the sun, so I kept journaling.

Then I started reading. 

After a while, I realized I had been sitting outside for quite some time. Surely it had been at least an hour and the bright colors that had once been in the sky were starting to fade.

I looked up in the sky and tried to peek beyond the clouds. Did I somehow miss the sun coming up?

Maybe it was too cloudy? One of those hazy days where you can't really see the sun. But...it didn't look hazy.

Part of me felt a little letdown. That I had put on this big charade for nothing. Like the sunrise had stolen this moment from me.

I truly considered getting up and going inside. But I didn't. I decided to read another chapter (on faith -- ironically) and kept waiting for the sun to show itself.

And then, it did.

Peeking through a large bush in our backyard, little glimpses of the sun started to appear.

I hadn't missed it.

How silly of me.

Yet, what a metaphor for life. For faith. 

I almost walked away. I almost doubted the SUN. The sun. Which, correct me if I'm wrong, but the sun has always shown up for me every single day of my life. Over and over again without fail, there's the sun, and yet, I didn't think it would happen today.

Do you ever feel like that with God or faith?

No, I'm not trying to get corny. I'm just...so serious.

Maybe you've just done this to yourself.

We show up, we do the work, we want change, we want miracles, but our faith waivers.

We doubt ourselves.

We doubt God.

And yet, how many times has God shown up over and over again?

Even during the hardest of times. You could have had your life raked through the mud and I promise you God still showed up.

Maybe you're going, "Ok chick, you lost me. I don't believe in God." Fine. How many times have you stood back up after being knocked down?

Seriously think about it. Life gets hard. Super hard. But right now, in this moment, you have already survived 100% of your hardest days. 

So often we don't take the time to wait for it. We ignore the signs of better things on the horizon because staying in a state of doubt is way easier than having faith. Way easier.

It's easier to come inside. Easier to shield ourselves from the sunlight. Easier to feel like we were robbed. Like it's just us who missed something. We're the only ones who don't get to experience the sunlight.

And then...just like you thought...you miss it. You miss the sun. The golden opportunity you want so badly. You walk away and you miss it.

My advice to you?

Get your ass outside. If the sun keeps rising, so can you. Do not doubt it.

If the sun keeps showing up, that means God is showing up too.

Don't give up on your dreams, your miracle, your plan for abundance.

You only miss the amazing blessings available to you if you walk away.

Don't go inside. Don't walk away. Don't doubt the sunrise.

 

 

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