Finding your stride takes time. Lots of time. And you will find it and then lose it and then find it again. It’s important to stick it out. To believe that you’ll get there. Even on the days when you have absolutely no idea what your doing or how you’ll do it.
As my years of motherhood and life experiences go up (can NOT believe I’m almost a decade in but really just getting started good!), when I see tired young mommies, I just want to scoop them up and say "hold on! You’ll get there! You will find your stride"...it’s hard. Life. Life is full of changes, unknowns, confusion, and chaos...but in all of that are the diamonds. The good stuff. The "it" stuff.
Chris and I, our life isn’t perfect, it’s sooooo far from it. Some days we fail miserably at the Whole. Thing. But over the years, we’ve just learned we have to try not to live in or get stuck in those moments. Over the years we’ve began to find our stride. We shifted our focus to just living simply and in the now. We both realize just how fast it’s blowing by and we don’t want to miss it. We choose not focus only the yuck stuff. It’s there. It always will be. But it’s important not to let it swallow you up, because given enough of a foothold, it will.
It’s also important that when you do find your stride, take some time and enjoy it there. Live in it. Breathe in the good stuff. The ordinary. Because one day it’s all just gonna be memories that make up your life. And that. That is what we stood in front of those wedding pictures and did together. Took a deep breath and breathed in all the love, all the diamonds, all the ordinary, all the chaos, the ups, the downs and soaked up the extraordinary moments that have made up this lightening fast decade.
And remember everyone’s stride is different. Everyone finds joy and diamonds in different places, so take the time to trust and follow that still small voice inside that’s leading you. God wants the very best for you. He doesn’t promise a struggle free life, an easy life, but a good one, indeed!
Over the last year, we have slowly ended a chapter of pregnancy, squishy babies, and all nighters to embrace what’s next. We continue to try and nourish our physical, mental and physical self so that we can be the parents they need throughout each season of their life. As well as attempting to teach them the importance of that as well. ❤️ We have such a big big job ahead of us and we are excited for the opportunity to live it. We have found an unexplainable joy in not just running through life together. The possibilities seems endless, the joy abundant, and in that, we have found our stride. We love our simple, quiet life. These truly are our moments. Our diamonds. Our good stuff.
I don’t say all that to brag or anything like that. I say it to encourage you. Don’t stop, get stuck, or give up in the hard stuff, on the hard climbs, or because your stride doesn’t look like someone else’s. The yuck stuff comes uninvited and unexpected whether we like it or not, but keep going. Keep going forward even if it’s a crawl. Just don’t stop. Because just over the climb, you’ll find your stride. It will surprise you sometimes. It will leave without warning sometimes, but it’s always there, just keep pushing. Keep going. Keep running. And when you hit your stride, enjoy every minute. Smile big. And soak up those moments. Because it is those that carry you through the next season, the next yucky thing, and help you keep going until, once again, you find your stride.
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