Becoming Unstuck

I was at a worship service tonight which made me think about a lot of things that have been resting hard on my heart. There are points in everyone's life when something they thought was a sure thing turns out to not be and there is a huge change of direction.

It is so easy to get stuck in the pattern that we create for ourselves, the patterns that we have deemed to be good for us, regardless of how sustainable they actually are. It can be very difficult to get out of the patterns we create, especially when they are comfortable and the world outside is scary. It is hard to break with what you know and try something new. It is a huge risk because you don't have the option of going back to the safety of what you once knew. All you can do is move forward.

Somedays it feels almost like pulling off a Band-Aid. This is also something that I hate doing. I'm really, really bad at it. It is so much easier to simply cover up what is wrong in your life and not deal with it. When you are confronted with the hard choices, it is necessary to remove the coverings on the wounds of your life in order to get back to a state of rightness within yourself and with those around you. You have to make something unstick in order to move and grow within yourself.

Over the past few weeks, I have become to unstick the things in my life. A lot of them have hurt, but the hurt does go away and I know that it was the right thing to do. It is worth it to take chances, embrace the risks and be able to change your life. It is not worth to get stuck in a place that you are not happy. It is also not worth to get stuck in a place where you will not grow.

As much as it may hurt to unstick yourself from what is familiar, what is easy, it is worth it. Over time the hurt does go away. And there is such a huge world out there. Sometimes it's just around the next bend.