Good morning…
Fascinated, I read these words aloud to my class: “People may call what happens at midlife “a crisis,” but it’s not. It’s an unraveling – a time when you feel a desperate pull to live the life you want to live, not the one you’re “supposed” to live. The unraveling is a time when you are challenged by the universe to let go of who you think you are supposed to be and to embrace who you are. Midlife is certainly one of the great unraveling journeys, but there are others that happen over the course of our lives: marriage, divorce, becoming a parent, recovery, moving, an empty nest, retiring, experiencing loss or trauma, working in a soul-sucking job. The universe is not short on wake-up calls. We’re just quick to hit the snooze button,” (Brene Brown’s Gifts of Imperfection, pg. xii-xiii).
My life has unraveled a time or two. It has happened before. It will happen again. Yet each time I pick up life’s remaining threads, I meet God more personally, wide awake, weaving.
Wake up! Strengthen what remains and is about to die, for I have found your deeds unfinished in the sight of my God, Revelation 3:2 (NIV),
Sue
