In this fast pace culture it’s easy to get discouraged when your life doesn’t seem like it’s enough. With instagram and snapchat highlighting and filtering our lives, it’s easy to fall into the thought process of your life not being as “exciting” as everyone else’s. When I started getting older and more aware of what life actually entails, the mundane of life was a harsh reality for me to deal with.
I’ve always been a dreamer some call it wanderlust, but I realized this mentality was actually taking me away from the moments I was living right now. I always wanted more even when I was getting A LOT out of life. No trip, lifestyle or job ever seemed to be enough for me. When I wasn’t in faith, every weekend was an opportunity to get out. In my mind, in order for me to live I had to experience everything always and taking time for myself was extremely out of the ordinary. Who reads and drinks tea on a Friday night?! Well now me, which is extremely out of my comfort zone but I find peace in knowing, not only do I NEED THAT, but that it’s OKAY. So I guess here I am to tell you its okay to be ordinary. It’s okay to work a lame job for a second or live at home for a few years. It’s okay to not date someone and find yourself in order to make yourself a better person. It’s okay to not know what the heck you’re doing and feel frustrated.
I think life is hard, its beautiful but its hard and social media makes it a lot harder. Social media makes everyones life look glorious when its really just chopped version of their actually reality and its really easy to compare yourself to these Instagram lifestyles. Everyone’s living FAST and going, going, going BUT I believe God works in the spaces of the ordinary. God works in the places where you feel discontent, in the places where you feel small, God strives in the places where you give Him room to be used in your life and sometimes that takes stepping back and letting Him do his work. AND SOMETIMES that means enduring a season of earthly hell to find his glory peaking in. If I were to continue my life living as if every moment wasn’t enough, life would be a mess. Sure, I might get places in life faster then everyone else but my soul would be discontent. I’d rather have messy circumstances for a second then a messy soul. God needs room to work from the inside out, on the peace within our souls. What I’m saying here is if we don’t take the time to really know what it feels like to be uncomfortable (for me that’s the mundane) then how are we supposed to be pleased with anything in life? How are we supposed to grow and really know who we are? How are we supposed to deal and push through the spaces of our ourselves that long to feel contentment from things that are so temporary? Life takes work and that means sticking through something and having faith that God will come through and pull you out of it, and make you stronger through it. It’s choosing life. It’s not settling, its choosing to be a participate of Gods plans for YOUR life and giving Him your desires. All of them.