Rewriting History
What if we imaged our life like a book? We are given the pages, the pen, and the ink. Recently I met a woman who told me the story of her daughter creating “elephant stories,” narratives that are impossible to believe and not grounded at all. I wonder about us, about our lives. What if what we tell ourselves is not as powerful as we believe?
Yes, sometimes people take pages from our book, write a piece of our story that causes us intense pain and we suffer sorrow, but if we stop and look at our whole life, the big picture, some things that define us lasted moments or weeks or years. Our history is not the whole picture. I am not saying we do not grieve those memories, those deeply painful traumas, but I am wondering what life would look like if we took back the book of our lives and stopped living someone else’s nightmare.
Hans Christian Anderson says, “Every life is a fairytale written by the hand of God.” For years I resented that quote until I started reading fairytales to our children when they were small. It is not all roses and buttercups in those stories, there are evil creatures and fiery dragons, sorcerers and hidden traps and dungeons. Often the person, a princess or prince, must find their way, despite the insurmountable odds stacked against them, to their true love or real identity. That’s' the fairytale part! The good always triumphs, the prince always finds his true home, and the princess her real father.
Allow yourself permission to take back your story, to begin to clarify the path you are on, find who you are meant to be in the world without another person’s script playing in your head. Time to take up the pen and create your own story. Your life might not be a fairytale right now, but you can begin the journey to freedom. Register today for Breaking Down Barriers to Living Free.
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"All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be."
Psalm 139:16