Have you ever painted a picture of what could be? The words in your mind painting this scene before your very screen of assumptions and probablys. You’ve played out entire dialogues with scene changes and character entrances and exits. But instead of painting something for leisure it’s full of offense, contempt, and sorrow. You’ve built a story upon the responses of the assumptions and now your memory can’t even recognize what’s real and what’s pish posh. Confidence has left the building and insecurity fills the crevices like the pest it is. I believe even confident people struggle with this. But it’s the hastening to wiping away of untruths and replacing them with the truths they know that separate the confident from the insecure. They pick themselves up and tell themselves the facts and the things that are true. And if they feel off about it, they SAY something to someone.
Open up. Open up to the truths! Because before long, if you don’t, your insecurities become your truth. Stick to the timeless truths - not the lies that someone spoke once upon a time.
Step forward with THE BEST outcome possible. When an interaction seems stroked as insurmountable, erase it and start new. Chances are the better outcome is full of what is true. Take the benefit of the doubt that you belong, or that they aren’t mad, that they are HAPPY to see you, and greet them with a hug.
And if you don’t even know what is true - ask the one who has been faithful time and time again. Because he has good plans for you.
picture and art by Deb Coffey
I came here to read this after running the phone call scenerio thru my mind and wanting to avoid making the phone call that I KNEW would not go well. It was meant to serve as a distraction - a delay tactic. But God! I'm going to go make that phone call now....
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