I shared this on my personal page, now Ill share this with you in the hopes that it will encourage you. No matter how hard or far youve fallen, you CAN get back up. Good night! ----------------------------------------------------------------- Can I share something with you? Something a lot of you might not know about me, or might look away from because you remember me from back when? Things changed in 2009 when I lost my job and my husband lost his barely 3 months later. In that time: - I know the pain of sending out resume after resume for jobs I hadnt done since high school, only to get no response. Or to be told after six months I was overqualified, over educated or just not what they were looking for. This went on for four years, from 2009-2013. - Ive been embarrassed at the grocery store, pulling out a folder full of WIC coupons only to have some older woman behind me say aloud if youd get a JOB even though I had two beautiful children and wedding ring and probably supported HER social security checks when I had a full-time job. - I also know what it feels like to drive away from the dream home you just moved into as the Bank posts a Notice of Foreclosure sign on the front door you picked out and barely had time to break in. - I know the feelings of failure as you watch a wrecker drive away with your car on the trailer. A car you had custom made for you at the factory in Germany. A car that still had a warranty and service plan left. - I know the feelings of shame, embarrassment and unbelief as you wait for a bankruptcy trustee to call your name and take your ID while they go down the list of the creditors you owe. Creditors you had no problem affording when you signed the loan or got the card. - I know the anxiety that keeps you awake at night, the nights that are so long that you dont know how youll see daylight, while you watch the life you just built fall apart and you wonder if youll be able to afford even 1/10th of the things you took for granted growing up. The anxiety that keeps you feeling separated from God as you ask Him why He seems to have gone silent on you. - Worst of all? I know the pain of those unreturned calls and emails of all those friends you helped, you treated to nice things, you thought were there for you always. The friends who were suddenly so VERY BUSY when you needed a friend, to the point you stopped telling anyone what was going on in your REAL life and just posted an old picture of yourself online. The friends you prayed God would bless, and when He did, swore you were JEALOUS of THEM because your own change hadnt come yet. THAT was my life barely a year ago. I was a walking Tears & Fears franchise. As I lay on my back recovering from a miscarriage that would not have happened had I still had medical insurance, I SWORE TO GOD & MYSELF that ONE DAY I would once again be in the position to be able to help somebody who was in WORSE shape than me, that with the pain I went through I would help others rebuild their lives from the ground up. The next day I made the decision to sign up as a Beachbody Coach. I chose someone Id watched go from drowning in debt to millionaire status in the same time my life was imploding and swore to shadow everything she did until we got over. I cancelled the next WIC appointment, switched my kids to almond milk and water and learned how to make do until I could make more. I sold off the last of my valuables, my books & DVDs, and bought the cheapest Challenge Pack I could afford. Like David after his fall with Bathsheba, stood up, dusted myself off and moved forward (we all know what happened after that - the babe that would become the wisest King in all Israel showed up 9 months later) Over here, 9 months later I know Im getting paid every Thursday, Im 3/4 of the way to my fitness and health goals and BEST of all, I have my confidence back. Confidence in myself, confidence in God, confidence that I do, in fact, have what it takes to bounce back from the worst setback I ever suffered and that God really DID have a plan even when it seemed EVERYTHING was being moved out of place or taken away. I share all this to say you CAN start over. You CAN get better. You CAN move ahead. You CAN put the worst days behind you. You CAN suffer loss, hardship, illness and whatever and bounce back to BE A BLESSING. You wont be with the same people who saw you fall to the ground, I PROMISE youll be with a happier, healthier, savvier and better off group of folks devoted to HELPING YOU BECOME BETTER THAN BEFORE, STRONGER THAN EVER. Now isnt that worth a fitness program and a bag of Shakeology?
Posted on: Tue, 01 Jul 2014 01:29:17 +0000
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