RKCWRITES
  • Home
  • RKC Blogs
  • RKC Speaks
  • Home
  • RKC Blogs
  • RKC Speaks
Search by typing & pressing enter

YOUR CART

Picture

2/28/2023 0 Comments

Life is an inside out experience

Picture
​Some of the most harmful conversations we engage in are conversations we have with ourselves.

Circumstances get tough and we're often the first ones telling ourselves they are TOO tough. More often than not
circumstances don't turn hopeless because they ARE hopeless, they turn hopeless when we begin telling ourselves they are.

It's easy to forget some days what an inside out experience life is. It's easy to get up in the morning and begin wondering what the day is going to bring my way instead of considering what I'm about to bring this day.

We are all looking for cheerleaders in life, people who will help us believe we have what it takes. What cheerleader, though, can compete with the cheerleader inside of us telling us we never will?

In the bible we are called to be strong and courageous.

That is not the same as never feeling afraid.

That is not the same as never feeling discouraged.

That calling is a call to never let our feelings have the power to write the story of who we are. Feelings can be allowed to write the story of how we feel, but they can not be given authority to write the story of who we are.

Because I have personally discovered, once you give them that authority, our feelings are slow to hand us back the pen. Feelings love being THE story; they hate simply being a part of it.

I have felt it a few times the last couple of weeks. I have felt discouraged. And I have quickly acknowledged - that's a very real feeling that does not tell the story of the very real me.

We can all do that. We can all say, that's a feeling, that is not me.

We can all recognize that feelings come and go, but I'm going nowhere.

You don't have to wait for the circumstances of this day to show up and tell you who you are. You can decide that before you ever crawl out of bed.

The day will try to convince you otherwise. But you are your best cheerleader - you are your best conversation - you tell yourself and then you tell your day what your day needs to know about who you are.

Life is an inside out experience.

Be kind to your insides.
0 Comments

Your comment will be posted after it is approved.


Leave a Reply.

    Robert "Keith" Cartwright

    I am a friend of God, a dad, a runner who never wins, but is always searching for beauty in the race.

    Archives

    June 2025
    May 2025
    April 2025
    March 2025
    February 2025
    January 2025
    December 2024
    November 2024
    October 2024
    September 2024
    August 2024
    July 2024
    June 2024
    May 2024
    April 2024
    March 2024
    February 2024
    January 2024
    December 2023
    November 2023
    October 2023
    September 2023
    August 2023
    July 2023
    June 2023
    May 2023
    April 2023
    March 2023
    February 2023
    January 2023
    December 2022
    November 2022
    October 2022
    September 2022
    August 2022
    July 2022
    June 2022
    May 2022
    April 2022
    March 2022
    February 2022
    January 2022
    December 2021
    November 2021
    October 2021
    September 2021
    August 2021
    July 2021
    June 2021
    May 2021
    April 2021
    March 2021
    February 2021
    January 2021
    December 2020
    November 2020
    October 2020
    September 2020
    August 2020
    July 2020
    June 2020
    May 2020
    April 2020
    March 2020
    November 2019
    September 2019
    December 2018
    November 2018
    December 2017
    September 2014

    Categories

    All Faith Fatherhood Life Mental Health Perserverance Running

Proudly powered by Weebly