One day, the cloud lifts. Remember that, friends. In the face of difficult times, in the face of broken friendships, pandemics, job worries, life worries, family worries, financial worries, remind yourself the cloud is eventually going to lift.
The past few weeks have been overwhelming. I’ve been overwhelmed with anger after lies and betrayal and rumors. I’ve been overwhelmed with worry after Covid hit home. I’ve been overwhelmed by work because I’ve been behind and running a mostly one woman show while in quarantine. Over the past year, I’ve been overwhelmed with worry about my business, fighting to save this thing I created and treasure, with stress and grief over broken friendships, treasured friendships I thought were real.
But tonight, I felt it lift. There’s no rhyme or reason to the timing. We’re in the middle of the family quarantine. I’m slammed with orders and digging my way out of the hole slowly. I’m not feeling amazing myself. BUT right in the midst of that, it lifted. I’m out here in the boutique working at 3 in the morning and the epiphany struck.
I’m fine. It’s fine. Everything is fine. REALLY. FINALLY.
Because God’s got this. And I’ve got this.
Orders are getting caught up – slowly and surely.
My family is feeling better – slowly and surely.
My business survived..and by George, it’s going to continue to survive.
My friends – my real friends – aren’t going anywhere. Ever. And there’s such peace in that knowledge.
Tonight, I decided to let it go. I don’t know if it was all this feel good 90s Country I’ve been listening to on Pandora while I worked or if it was the positive Pinterest quotes I was reading earlier or if God just told me to release it, but it feels good. It feels freeing. It feels overdue.
And I feel like myself for the first time in a long, long time.
I know lots of you are feeling that overwhelming feeling right now with everything going on around us. And if that’s you, friend, I hope your cloud lifts quickly. We all deserve a little sunshine after what 2020 has done to us!!
