How Far You Have Really Come

Good morning ~ I am reading 'The Way of Abundance' by Ann Voskamp (very slowly) and I'd have to say it is blessing me greatly. All her book have. Some people have told me her way of writing is not one that they can handle well or follow but it works for me :)

  I thought I'd write out some of what I read today because she words it so perfectly in a way I couldn't but wish I could. She starts out saying she's held a wild bird in her hand ~ have you? I have, and their tiny hearts beat faster than you can imagine. No one else can see or feel it but you in that moment.
So she begins...

'It happens - there are ways to look fine on the outside...and no one knows what you've really survived.
But the truth is? You didn't just survive, so let's toss that myth out right at the outset.
The way you keep walking? You may be wounded. You may be hurting. You may be limping. You may feel alone and overwhelmed and an unspoken broken - but you're no victim.
You're not just a survivor. You're a thriver.
You may bleed - but you rise.
Yeah, it may not feel like it - but you are seen...how you just keep keeping your chin up and limping brave through the hurt and how you keep taking one step out of bed and another step through the door - and how you keep scaling mountains by relentlessly taking steps forward.
But I wanted you to know your wounds are seen and you are going to be okay - it is all going to be okay. Not that you badge flash your scars or anything.
Or try to hide them, ashamed.
It's just sometimes there's this passing flicker in your eyes, old pain shooting white right through.
But mostly, quietly, the scars just become you - become who you are and become you...make you more beautiful - they just become the way your skin pulls mottled and raised over your soul and this is how you fit most beautifully......
The kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these......
You are so brave to keep facing the light. To keep walking towards Home......
Hang on. Press in. Look up......'

~ there is more but that is what I will share today ~

  Isn't this all of us to some degree right up close or far back in the recess of ourselves? It is good to acknowledge it some days a bit more clearly then others. To realize how far we have really come and to realize we kept climbing those mountains, we kept getting out of bed (most days), because are still alive we never fully gave up ~ and that is powerful!!!!!!!!!!!

Have a lovely Tuesday out there in your world ~
Love Tansy