just some words on a friday afternoon

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I have a lot to say, and yet I can't seem to find the words. I wish I could invent a whole lot of words for the things I feel. Then maybe life wouldn't be so confusing. If we could understand what we felt, and put words to them, and string them out across a page or a computer screen, they might be easier to decipher.

I'm learning a lot of hard lessons right now. But I'm also re-learning some of the basics I think everyone who's a "wise old adult" tells you you'll learn. It's true, yo. The only way to learn them is to experience them. And let me tell you, the experience hurts. Every time something uncomfortable happens to me, I feel broken open again. Exposed. And it makes me feel just like a skinned knee. 

But guess what...skinned knees heal. They leave lovely scars (and I have plenty of those. #klutzbomb), but they heal. And they teach you not to climb trees with weak branches. #metaphor? #dontknow #maybeillfigureitoutlater

I'm sure that I'll look back on this time, like I have with every trial in life, and be grateful for the person it forced me to become. I'm trying to focus all my prayers lately on that word--"becoming." Help me become who You want me to be. Help my heart to change. Help me to bend.

These quotes right here encompass all the things I can't say. Hopefully they will help whoever's reading this, too. Just don't give up. No matter what you're facing--don't give up. If Christ had given up, then we'd all be in a much worse state than we are. So go to Him first. Then, no matter how hard it is, keep going.

Just let go. Let go of how you thought your life should be, and embrace the life that is trying to work its way into your consciousness.

— Caroline Myss

To us, waiting is wasting. To God, waiting is working.

— Louie Giglio

The important thing is this: To be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could be.

— Charles DuBois