YOU WERE MEANT TO THRIVE!

YOU WERE MEANT TO THRIVE!

I know many of you are just like me.   We made it through some dark times filled with abuse.   We got to the other side and were just glad we made it.

We survived!  We were proud that we were a survivor.  We refused that label of VICTIM.  We had made it!  We wore that badge with honor as well we should.

But many of us stayed in the survivor role.  Content and complacent to just live there.  We didn’t move backwards; we didn’t move forward.  We were just ordinary people glad to still be alive.

When I heard this song by Casting Crowns it spoke to my mind, my heart and my soul.  WE ARE NOT ORDINARY PEOPLE!  We are amazing, extraordinary people!  We fought and conquered so much.  And we finally laid down that word victim.  It lost its hold of us.  

And then we became a survivor.  It gave us strength and courage.  We knew our inner strength.  We knew we could overcome.  However….

If you are like me, you thought you should be grateful just to have survived.  We didn’t feel worthy.  Why would we?  We were never treated that way.  But the burning white embers just needed to be fanned.  Just a whisper of breath could ignite them again.  Blow on those charred remains and bring them back to life. 

It’s time.  It’s my time.  It’s your time.   Surviving is not enough for us anymore.  We deserve more.  We deserve the best. 

It’s time for us to THRIVE!  Embrace it.  Hold it.  Breathe it in to the depths of your soul.  You are worthy.  Reach out and claim it!  You deserve it.  All of it.  Starting today!

copyrighted 2014

caryn cannatella

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