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Life Stages

Through our lifetimes we will enter many stages of development, growth prosperity and at time downfall. Some stages will make us feel like were on top of the world and others may make us question if we have the strength to keep going. At other times in our lives we are faced with choices that will severely shape our futures and lives as we know them. These times are often met with fear and questions, trust me I understand that. I am at the point in my life where I need to make decisions, decisions about college, how I want to live my life, where I want to go and where I want to end up. Despite always having a pretty clear understanding of what I want for my life, now that it's here, up until this point it has been pretty overwhelming and honestly terrifying. It is now however that I have come to the conclusion that the same fear I let envelope my mind can be directly turned into excitement. The excitement factor is this, yes I have to make what seems like a million life impacting decisions but I have the freedom to make those decisions and therefore through confidence in myself and confidence in what I have known all along which is the path I strongly feel God wants me to take, in that confidence I receive the freedom to be excited. God calls us not to worry but to trust in him and yet I have found that he often uses the most worry-some situations to remind us of his constant presence in our lives. He uses those climax points in our stories to open our eyes to his path for us and in that despite all the craziness of this life and all the struggles and decision we may be met with, they all become minute, because this life has no comparison to what is to come. Someone very wise said that those who have a strong relationship with God are constantly in trouble because to follow God we go against this world. Today I want to encourage you that whatever decisions you need to make, God is with you and I pray he gives you the same clarity he has so gracefully blessed me with. Let your worries become minute and let your eyes become open to the true and immense beauty that every struggle, and every trial has to offer. Go into this new weak with confidence and don't be afraid to allow yourself to feel joy, we live in a world where feelings especially those of positive conflict aren't normal, dare this week to be constantly in trouble. This life will give you many stages but you get to write the chapters word by word and we just so happen to have the most wonderful editor in the universe. Go get em this week babes!

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