My daughter started cheerleading
practice this week.
The team appointed her their flyer.
She'll be the one that
climbs to the top of the formations as all the other girls
support her. She had
to push through her initial fears to trust that the other girls
would be there to support her standing on their shoulders, and
then to catch her when she jumped off.
It reminded me of how many times my
own fears have kept me stuck.
Fear kept me trapped in the past.
Fear of the unknown, fear of rejection, and fear of
abandonment kept me repeating old patterns and behaviors in my
relationships and in my life for years.
The fearful questions would run
endlessly through my head.
What if I end this relationship and find out it was as
good as it gets?
What if I'm not good enough?
What if I get hurt?
What if I try and then fail?
I had more faith in my negative beliefs and fear of
repeating the past, than I did in new possibilities for my
future.
I had no clue that fears were
actually running my life.
Anger, worry, resentment, and insecurity showed up on the
outside, but underneath everything was fear.
My way of dealing with it was to try to control
everything and everyone in my life.
It was exhausting.
And I failed miserably.
When I was finally so tired of my
excuses and even more tired of trying to control everything, I
let go. I
realized the only way out of my perpetual cycle of fear was to
surrender control, and move forward in faith.
I had to trust in
something beyond myself to give me the faith I couldn't muster
on my own.
It takes courage to surrender; to
trust and have faith; to step beyond what you've known
and experienced in the past; to believe you can create something
different for yourself.
Ultimately, the faith we learn to have is in ourselves,
bolstered by the knowledge that we are not alone.
We do not have to face our fears by ourselves.
We can reach beyond to a higher power greater than what
we have and tap into faith.
"Faith equals trust. Faith offers us hope, and opportunity and promise. If we choose to live in faith, we will be blessed with the support and the partnership of the universe."-Debbie Ford
Your Assignment:
Ask, where is
your faith? Is it in
your fears, or in the belief that you can create your future?
If you had complete faith in yourself and in
your future, what would you do differently?
If you knew you could not fail, what would
you do?
You
deserve to have the best life you can possibly imagine.
The only question is, do you have the
faith to step out and create it?
I always think thao life is a chain of moments of enjoyment;not only about survival; did you agree with me?
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