These words from song in Rapunzel, have just popped in my head! It is one of my favourite Disney films but the children are not so keen, so I have not watched it for a long while.
Why these words?
I was sat in my room, thinking, wondering, feeling...it's crazy how far my thoughts can travel in just a few moments. To be honest, the negative thoughts were gaining the most space and I was allowing the thoughts of being a failure to win. Then all of a sudden, my thinking snapped out of the negative into a much brighter place.
Yes, there are things that I get wrong and mess up. I can say the wrong thing and I know I can chose to do the wrong thing. Yet, I also know that I have the strength within me to get back up, to say sorry and to try again.
The problem was that I was allowing my experience to define who I am. I was allowing just one experience to cloud my judgement of what I do.
I am not a failure. Yes, there are things I fail at, however I am not a failure.
'At last I see the light...'
Rather than dwelling on the negative, see the 'light', which for me, in that moment, was that I am succeeding, I am doing a good job. It has not been easy and there are still times when I just want to crumble. However, I am doing it from the strength I have within and from the support I have around me.
So, I will fight those thoughts that try to drown me and I will keep on getting back up and trying again. I will believe in who I am rather than in what has happened.
'… And at last I see the lightAnd it's like the fog has liftedAnd at last I see the lightAnd it's like the sky is newAnd it's warm and real and brightAnd the world has somehow shiftedAll at once everything looks differentNow that I see you.'
For me, the 'you' is Jesus. He enables me to lift my gaze and view things from a better place. 'You've got this', He whispers. And then I see the light, the newness, the warmth and brightness. It looks different; it looks good!
For me, the 'you' is Jesus. He enables me to lift my gaze and view things from a better place. 'You've got this', He whispers. And then I see the light, the newness, the warmth and brightness. It looks different; it looks good!
