The Climb

It takes courage to climb up.  To climb up and face your greatest fear.  To climb towards what you think others want you to be.  What expectations you have on yourself; even if your actions and insides don’t align.  But the real courage comes after the storms.  After the trials of this life have swept us up, shaking our life to the core and spitting us back out again; this time in an unfamiliar place.  A destination we had no desire to ever travel too.  After an outcome you didn’t anticipate or pray for.  The real courage comes from recognizing your weakness and the places you need help to mend back together.  The real courage comes from being vulnerable with the emotions you are feeling, sharing them in hopes of feeling normal again or that someone out there knows this pain.  And even though you don’t feel courageous, you know that Jesus loves you just the way you are right now.  Broken and hurting and in need of His grace to pull through the darkness and into His mighty light again.  You know that His love is greater than any of the feelings you are working through and it is His love that will be your light again. 

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