You’ve been assigned this mountain to show others it can be moved
Do you ever wonder “WHY ME?”!
Yeah, same.
Sometimes – ok who am I kidding – most of the time, I wonder why God gave me this mountain of grief and pain to carry around. Why me and why not … someone else? Anyone else? No one else? ( best case scenario obvi).
I dont want any mountains!
I dont want to be here!
Come to think of it, what’s so wrong with the mountain being exactly where it is – we dont need it moved. It’s fine right there. We’re fine. Everything is fine …
But God is like – hmm yea no. I have given you this mountain to move for a reason. You must move it yourself. I will be here to help, but you CAN and WILL because someone else is watching to see how you do it so they will know it’s possible for them too.
Sometimes I love how confident God is in me … it’s also SMH-inducing!
About 6 months after my life went upside down, I was talking with a work friend (she knew what I had gone through) and was asking how I was doing. I wasn’t great, but I was really working on my healing and I started to feel glimpses of joy again, and it must have shown because she shared with me that she had another friend who lost her mom a few months before me and she still hadn’t been able to get out of bed, leave the house, move forward, etc. This person wanted to know what I was doing to heal so that she could help her friend start to grieve and live again too!
That moment, when she asked “What are you doing?” – that was my “ah ha” moment! That’s why I’m here (on IG, blogging, speaking, committed to helping others heal). That was when I realized that the mountain I was TRYING (desperately, begrudgingly, grievingly, half-heartedly, bitterly) to move, was indeed moving … and it mattered for more reasons than just me. Someone else was watching to see that it was possible, that if I could move it, maybe they could too!
Do NOT underestimate that people are watching …
Do NOT discount how your life & your actions affect people around you …
Do NOT assume that your pain is isolated to just your own heart & mind …
When you are faced with a challenge, a hardship, a setback – a MOUNTAIN – are you going to be the person that moves it/climbs it/CONQUERS IT? Or are you going to be the person who gives up because it seems impossible?
I think we both know the answer to that question, dont we?
Here’s the secret weapon … God! Remember, our God MOVES mountains!
Nothing is impossible for him. Therefore, nothing is impossible for you!
You are stronger than you know
Your God is wiser than you give him credit for.
You are the example – because you have been chosen.
You are not done. You will not be broken.
Your mountain will move – and you will finally see what God can really do in your life.
And I promise you, once that mountain has been moved … the feeling you have of pride in yourself, in gratitude towards God, you will begin to understand your power and the purpose behind the pain you went through.
My prayer for you this week is that you embrace the struggle – just a little bit. Just enough to give you that extra ‘oomph. You were not given anything that you cannot overcome. I pray you recognize that sometimes challenges/pain/loss are the short-term challenges that are meant to lead us to much bigger and better blessings. Someone needs to see you trying. Someone needs to see that impossible mountain moved by your faith.
XO
Tay
