I'm not sure I will ever "get" it. Like truly in my heart get the fact that I'm fine just the way I am.
I try and try to "talk" myself into accepting all of me, like every single little nugget of me. But more times than not, I fall short. Something could always be better.
I am my worse enemy. I am my hardest critic. I hear all the time "if you had never..." and I live for a moment in past regrets.
The what-a, could've, should've is a LOUD voice and so often I want to drown my sorrows in a waist deep pool of guacamole and eat my weight in chips and the gorgeous green slime I call "green crack." Don't judge me, I'm Mexican. My head voice at times drowns out the logic, and just this morning I found myself wasting two hours sitting on the couch, pretending to be doing something productive but really scrolling through Instagram like my life depended on it.
I despise these kind of moments. I despise "pretending" to do something worthwhile, but in reality I am w-a-s-t-i-n-g time. Time is precious and magical and mythical. Not really the last two, but it is precious and something we can't get back. It is gone in a flash and then drags ooonnnn when you are in the waiting game of life.
And that's where I find myself this morning. In the waiting game of life. I keep expecting, with one eye half open, for life to start back up, like a sitcom that just came back from a commercial break. All the characters moving with the story line, and yet here I still sit. Waiting.
Waiting on what you say? I'm not even sure to be entirely truthful. All I know is I felt like I was suppose to give up something that I held dearly and tightly to my chest, in a blind obedience to the One who tells the sun when to shine. I was asked to give up my need to be self-sufficient. And that is maybe the hardest thing I have ever done. Because I pride myself on being self-sufficient. I pride myself on my work ethic and drive to be better. It. is. who. I. am.
I pride myself on being that version of Carla. My whole identity has rest on it and in it.
I am the do-it better person. I am a striver and high achiever. I don't back down, nor do I give up the fight.
And yet....
God whispers Just as you are, Carla. No doing, no striving, no aiming to be better. Just sit a while with me and Just Be.
Just Be.
I'm learning to Just Be people, and as foreign as that sounds, it may be where life finally truly begins. In fact, I KNOW it is where life beings and the waiting is finally over. Because my definition of waiting, is NOT God's definition of waiting. And maybe for the first time, I let him do the heavy lifting and I stay close to His side. Because when it's all said and done, the waiting game of life is really a tug of war in my heart. To Trust or Not to Trust?
And I'm excited to see how this plays out without me doing anything.
XO
Charley
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