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this is that one vine that you always have to watch when it comes on your dashboard

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Gotta play this every morning now

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When You're Not Really "Killin' It"

Or: When You’re Barely Scraping By and You’re Afraid This is All There is.

Here’s what I ate for lunch today: freezer burned Tyson chicken nuggets (they were gross to start with… which is most likely why they’re freezer burned), left over pasta that cost a dollar (and tasted like it was worth a dollar) and some ginger dressing I was afraid would go bad. I currently don’t have a cell phone because mine stopped working and I haven’t been able to afford a new one.

My guess tank is barely hovering over that hollow “E” for “you’re going to end up on the side of the road soon.”

Meanwhile, I have seen Instagram posts and Facebook updates and Snapchat stories of spring break celebrations and promotions and everything else under the sun.

I got a nail in my tire. Instead of being able to patch it, they had to replace it.

As I was explaining my woes to a near and dear friend, I rushed to explain that I understand I’m blessed.

I flew into the things I’m thankful for: the fact that I did have food on the table, and at least I had other forms of contact, and I had a safe environment, I have a car to drive, etc.

She replied with cool words for the ache deep inside me: “it’s okay to struggle.”

And I suppose that’s the word we’re all so afraid of: struggle. It is not a word neatly tied with a red bow. It is a menacing word with gnashing teeth and strong jaws. It is dark and acrid.

We don’t enjoy struggling.

I’d dare say that we hate struggling.

But it is in our struggle that we are blessed.

Not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us. Romans 5:3-5

Suffering, struggling, produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope…

Hope. That’s what I need.

That’s what I need in the midst of this chaotic whorl-wind of to-dos and must haves and bills to be paid.

Is that what you need, too?

For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.” Jeremiah 29:11

There it is. There’s that hope we’ve been looking for.

“For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to take care of all of the things that ail you, to heal you, and to breathe life inside of all of those places you’re afraid will never come alive again.”

“I will take care of your finances. Praise me in the meantime.”

“I will heal your broken heart. Praise me in the meantime.”

“I am enough for you.”

He is here with us in our struggle, my dear friend. He knows all about it. And He’s moving mountains and parting seas and healing the blind all to make miracles happen for you. And for me. We just have to praise Him through our struggling.

And we just have to praise Him when we’re back to killin’ it, too.

Why, my soul, are you downcast? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my Savior and my God. Psalm 42:11

-31Women (Ansley)

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