Have you ever felt like you have hit rock bottom? Where You feel helpless and tired of being tired!
Storytime
God knows I have had my fair share of rock bottom. I remember a period in my life that awakened a sleeping talent I never knew I had. I’d just had my first child and had no idea what it meant to be a mother. Plus, without having my mother or family around it was difficult. But it wasn’t until my son and I who was about 7 months at the time were threatened with possible homelessness that I met rock bottom.
With a baby that couldn’t and wouldn’t sleep, I was literally the walking dead on autopilot. I couldn’t even think straight but amid the darkness, I found myself writing to encourage myself and that is how I discovered my love for writing.
Had someone told me a year or two prior that I will be writing one day I would have given them the side eye; you know the one that says girl, please. Yet here I am writing this very blog unbelievably and it all began from a moment of darkness.
Lesson
This has taught me that sometimes you need to hit rock bottom to discover hidden talents that you never knew you had but were there all along lying dormant. Now don’t get me wrong no one wants to hit rock bottom because it’s rough and tough down there. But as the saying goes stars always shine the brightest in the darkness.
I would love to hear if you have ever uncovered any hidden talents during your dark times in the comments below.
And with that I’ll leave you with the first piece of writing I did during this time:
I will rise
From the ashes I will rise
Like a phoenix I’m rebirthed
From the dust new breath – revived
These dry bones living – resurrected
Like a fill of the spirit – born again
New beginnings with new endings
This time bigger, bolder, braver
With the tenacity of an eagle
Unshakable & immovable I stand
With the courage of a lion I fight
And roar letting failure & rejection
Know that I will not be defeated
I will not be depressed or oppressed
And I will not and cannot give up
For he that is in me is greater than he that is trying to destroy me
So again, I shout that from the ashes I will rise
Like a phoenix I’m rebirthed.
Mistakes and disappointments will be my teachers
Resurrecting me from my intended doom
And propelling me 10,000 feet so I can fly with the eagles
And glide with the storm.
So again, I shout that from the ashes I will rise
And rise again!
