Do Over

Have you ever thought about a season of your life that if it were possible…you would love a “Do Over”? I thought…boy…I had made some really poor choices in my past… I began thinking…that was a big hiccup…my brain was obviously in “neutral” when I decided to do this or that…I remembered some of the consequences and the great struggles that it bought about…how challenges were created and how strength was my only option…I can hear the speeches I had to make to myself to sometimes simply “move forward”…I had to learn how to stretch a dollar until it covered all the bills…I had to encourage myself that “it won’t always be this way”…I celebrated small victories…and declared that “today is a better day”…I would throw in the towel every night..and find it sitting on the bed in the morning😊…I learned how to find a song to sing in the darkness…I found a tenacity that was dormant..until it was needed…I realized that if I had the ability to actually experience “a do over”…I would have missed many “growth spurts”…those hard seasons taught me so much about myself…I learned that it’s not so much about the seasons I find myself in…It’s Who is in the season with me…God’s presence became my strength… I found that do overs may make it easier…but…I would never have known the woman that I know now…life does not allow “do overs”…but it does give us “teachable moments” that make us better…I’ve experienced many of those…how about you?