Don’t Judge the Story From the Middle
We hear the phrase " trust the process " so often that sometimes it almost loses its meaning. It's easy to tell someone to trust the process when everything is going well. It's much harder to believe in those words when you're sitting in the middle of a situation you never asked for, watching things fall apart and wondering how any of it could possibly work out. There are moments in life when we question everything. We regret decisions. We curse our circumstances. We ask God why. We wonder why things aren't happening for us the way they seem to be happening for everyone else. We look at where we are and compare it to where we thought we'd be, and suddenly it feels like we've fallen behind. But maybe we spend too much time trying to understand the chapter while we're still living it. Sometimes you have to let the tape roll. Let the disappointment happen. Let the rejection hurt. Let the plans change. Let yourself grieve the things you thought would ...