Not everyone will rise up to meet you. Not everything we wish for will work out in our favor. Not every doctor’s appointment is going to deliver good results.
Not every prayer will be answered the way we hope. Not every letter will bear good news. Not every friend will defend you or stand by your side. Not every “I love you” will be sincere.
Not every person who walks into our life will decide to stay.
But in every hard, heavy and seemingly unbearable situation we find ourselves in we have a choice …
We decide how to bear the news. We decide how it affects us. We decide how to carry on. We decide what to hold and what to leave behind.
WE decide. Sometimes our greatest growth and personal advancement emerges from our sadness and broken hearts.
Sometimes a greater awareness of ourselves and what we are capable of becoming … and surviving … arises through our disappointments and despair. Sometimes we rise up to exceed our own expectations when life is hardest and messiest.
But first WE must decide.
– Mackenzie Free –
Wife, mother, photographer & current resident of the unassumingly magical town of Steele, Alabama
