Life lessons learned 👏🏻🖤


 Hi friends! How are you? How’s your week been? You’ll definitely want to read this 🖤 These thoughts have been on my mind for a while now and I wanted to share them with all of you. 🥰

It has been nothing short of a rollercoaster 🎢 since mid April last year. 2020 was and has been, a train wreck for all of us that just keeps to continue on and on. It’s been the hardest year(s) of my life. But it’s also been a place of proving, self discovery, and growth. What year(s) was that for you?

It’s easy to be disappointed at God for the things that you want, but don’t receive, or the things that don’t work out the way you want/thought/or think should happen. 

It’s easy to ask WHY have all these things happened to me, and what we did to deserve them.

Life is tough and harder than I ever thought it would be. But through it all I’ve found out a lot of things about myself, what I’m capable of, how I should and should not spend my time, whats really important in my life, who my true blue friends are, and what I really want in life. 👊🏻 

These are some things I’ve learned:👇🏻

- that no one else’s opinion of you matters except what you think of yourself. 

- that the world is ROUGH on everyone, and if you judge others, that doesn’t give you room to love them.

- that you only have ONE life, so if you’re not happy, do something that does make you happy.

- that comparing my life, my circumstances, my body, my qualities, etc. to others 👉🏻 Gets. Me. NOWHERE

- and to accept myself , because there’s only one me. Stop being so hard on yourself. You’re TRYING and that’s good enough! 👏🏻

Life is what we make it! It’s for mistakes, (lots of them) growing experiences, challenges, adventures, heartbreak, a chance to love, to find happiness, to find your purpose, and to simply LIVE. ☀️



Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

My body: ❤️

  New post: My body: Warning ⚠️ vulnerable post ahead!  I’ve always been more on the plus size side and have really tried hard to work on myself to become more confident with my body. I’ve tried to feel comfortable in my own skin and to love and accept my body in every stage, because EVERY stage is beautiful! But I’m not perfect at it and some days are hard. I’ve recently gained some weight that has come with the stresses of life (uggg it’s the worst) life changes, etc. and have found myself absolutely CONSUMED with my body and how “awful” I think I look. 😓 I’m the girl in a room thinking of my weight and if I’m the heaviest. Constantly comparing my body to everyone else’s. I always thought that I had to have this “perfect” body to feel accepted and that if I didn’t fit this standard of beauty that I would have no value.  I find myself comparing my body to everyBODY that comes along. I remember for almost every birthday growing up, secretly wishing to be “skinny” and thinking that if
Read more

God is love ❤️

 I recently attended the funeral services of Cason’s uncle that unexpectedly passed away. Even though I didn’t know him super well, he was such a kind man! Tears fell as the talks, memories, and testimonies of his family, grandchildren, and friends were shared. I walked away feeling so uplifted ❤️🙏🏻 it was such a spiritual funeral. I think that’s the point, when loved ones pass, is to get you to reflect on your own life and the people around you. I felt so much love that day-So much care and concern that God is aware, He is in control, and He knows what we are all going through! I know God has a plan for each of His beloved children. I know He loves each and every single one of YOU! Yes, YOU. I know that not a tear falls that He doesn’t know about or of a hurtful thought that was said to you. He celebrates the good times and is there for us in the bitter times. He finds joy in the things that make us laugh and in the people we help along the way. He truly is our biggest fan and cheer
Read more

LIVE ☀️

  New post: I’ve been doing a lot of reflecting recently and realized that it’s been a while since I’ve felt inspired to write a new post.  Hardships and loss, like most thought provoking experiences we are all going to get to go through, bring lots of reflection. Loss of a loved one, compassion for those experiencing the loss, and the sorrow and grief that come along, that you don’t quite understand and realize, until you go through it yourself.  Death and change, ironically, make you think and reflect on your own life. The impact you make, the example you set, the kindness you show, the love you give freely, and the acts of service you show to others.  It (hopefully) makes you want you try harder. To be a little better. To love more. To give more. To serve more. To LIVE more. To not let the opportunities pass you by. To spend more time with the ones you love. To do the things you’ve dreamed of doing. To not sweat the small stuff and to actually LIVE. ☀️ So here’s to the new version o
Read more