What Happens Next?


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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