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Will It Ever Get Better

DearJames,

My life is in shambles. No job. No car. Mountains of debt. Homeless, currently staying with relatives. I can’t afford to pay for all of my daughter’s college tuition. Lifetime sufferer of depression. Have fibromyalgia, PTSD, anxiety, etc. Still mourning the loss of my son who committed suicide four years ago. I Feel like after he left, I gave up on life and feel so lost. Will it ever get better?

Anonymous

Dear Will It Ever Get Better,

Starting over is never an easy endeavor usually because we fear the unknown…the uncertainty of it all.

We greatly miss the life we had, the security, love, laughter, joy, happiness, independence, relationships, shared life moments, and optimism that permeated our immortal beliefs and existence.

We cling to anything that remotely looks like what our lives used to be, placing our lives in park, forgetting there ever was a drive, a present future.

And then we wake up one day and see that our life is in shambles. No job, no car, mountains of debt, homeless, depressed, anxious and unable to care for ourselves or provide for others.

We’re lost, alone, and abandoned, forsaken by God and the Universe, forever memorialized by the taking of a son.

 And yet you were not.

God and the Universe never forsake any of us, we forsake ourselves and them.  We turn away from the light, not the other way around.

The events you have chosen to experience in this lifetime run wide and deep, like the currents of a mighty, flowing river.

Its currents can either carry you swiftly upon its path or consume you in its undercurrent.  It is our free will that chooses between these two vastly different life paths of destiny.

Each requires you to navigate unchartered territory.  Each tests your resolve, your commitment to not only survive but thrive.  Each takes before it gives.

The answer to your question, Will it ever get better, resides within you.  It has all along, eagerly awaiting your answer, your commitment to living fully.

It is in your surrender that you are saved, reborn anew, and empowered.  It is in taking baby steps each day that you release your burdens, hone your soul-self muscles, and come to walk upright.

It is in the inner belief that your light is God’s light that you begin to eradicate darkness as darkness cannot exist amongst the glorious light of spirit.

It is in the choosing of your higher self and purpose that you are safely led to higher ground.

Shelter yourself from the light no longer choosing instead to embrace its brilliance once again.

To master fate is to alter destiny.  And you are surely worthy and capable of taming the greatest of currents so that you arrive at a much more peaceful and pleasant place of existence in life.

DearJames®