Linking up today with Five Minute Friday. A group of writers who write on a prompt for five minutes straight, with out fancy edits. This week's prompt is "more".
so many years I stayed attached, tethered
to those around me. loved ones who I mistakenly thought I could change
on a moment's notice.
no.
I cannot.
why did it take this long to realize that all who are alive on this planet are on their own life's journeys, learning their own life lessons and I have nothing to do with it except to be a companion.
a friend, a comrade to come alongside the ones I love, the strangers I meet,
to observe.
not control. not manipulate. not cajole into doing or being anything
except what their Creator made them to be.
yes, more detachment means more peace.
better alignment in expectations means I have more peace, too.
this will be a life long journey, I see, to make this adjustment in life long patterns of thinking and being.
I am unhinging from old patterns of relating with myself and others. untethered to fly free in the unknown.
Yes, uncertainty is scary, but hanging on to old patterns of being is stifling and suffocating.
I'm learning and leaning on the One who can help me down new paths.
Learning my own life lessons along the way, but I belong.
I know that now.
I belong here.
I accept myself right where I am, on the way to where I need to be.
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Thanks for stopping by today!
Blessings,
Anne
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