It's All Up to YOU

It is said that no one can make it alone—we all need help to survive.  This is true in most cases, but when it comes to the battles that lie within the souls of all of us, there is only room for one to be the savior, the liberator, the hero.  We walk the road alone and are given the awesome task of bringing what is needed to us to change and to make the differences needed in many cases to survive.  We are not always successful and so we find ourselves digging deeper and deeper into the hole of ourselves to find the answers needed and many times fall to the wayside frustrated, wounded and defeated.  But we can’t give up, we can’t throw our hands up in the air and say “Oh well, I tried but it’s useless,” because if we do we are doomed.

            If we fail and fall down we can take a moment to suffer defeat, but then we must summon all of our strength to pick ourselves up and start again. 

It is not easy finding the solutions needed to bring change to the mess that we have allowed for so long it has become the norm.  We develop habits and when those habits become the source of defeat and hurt us time and time again, we have to find a way to make a change but change is sometimes a fearful thing and change is always brought with some level of difficulty.  It is one thing to make a quality decision to make changes in ourselves when we are confident, self-assured and full of personal resources, but when the change has to come from a damaged, weeping soul—it is difficult and all too many times it creates so much pain and discomfort we lose what little strength we possess in trying to hold on to the vision we created to help launch it.  We are the keepers of our soul and only we can recognize the needs in our lives that merit adjustment and alteration.  Just like a wedding dress needs several fittings before it is flawless and ready for that perfect day, we are constantly trying on the things that make us and many times we must amend and fine tune the fibers that create our universe until we reach that happy place where we are content.  There is a bridge between the place of who we are and who we long to become.  Many times it is hidden and we have to search for it, but all too often it is right there in front of us, waiting for us to just open our eyes and make the journey across it.