What Happens Next?
By: Miss Adventures
Life is a lot like a story. We have ups and downs, we have
success and failures. We have a rich cast of characters that we interact with
as we pen our personal novels. And, we are all constantly left with a question
of “what happens next?”
What DOES happen next?
I find myself wondering this quite a bit these days. I find
myself in silent thought, wondering what the next volley will be, what the next
step should be, how to get from one point to another and how to do that with a
little bit of grace.
And I find that grace is something I lack these days as
well. I honestly wish I had more of it.
So there I was…on a hot, humid Monday afternoon, about 2:30
or so, thinking about the same thing that I imagine we all often do, “What
happens next?”
Tired of pacing and running around like a triathlete in my
own head, I finally gave up, and I prayed for an answer.
And, as I was sitting on a bench, feeling the heat around
me, enveloping me like a warm blanket, I felt a slight breeze rustle up through
the trees around me, and even though I still have no clue what happens next, I
was finally given a sense of peace, an answer of, “Don’t worry about what
happens next, just know that everything is going to be alright.”
Funny thing was, at the exact moment that thought popped
into my head, I kept hearing Bob Marley as my background music, “Every little
thing, is going to be alright.”
And that might have something to do with the fact that I haven’t
eaten in two days, or it might even be a sign that I have finally bored the
short bus to the asylum, but in that moment, I found a little peace in that
thought…and in the song playing in my head.
I have no idea what happens next, if I’m being honest, in my
own novel, or in my story, but I do know that every little thing is going to be
alright. And, maybe you’re just like me right now, maybe you don’t know what
happens next, or what is supposed to happen next or when or where or why, but
maybe you just need to take a knee, pray and have a little faith that
everything for you, as well, is going to be alright.
Walking in faith might be hard, taking a leap of faith is
even more challenging, but it beats the shit out of staying stuck where you don’t
belong.
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