We Are our own story tellers

​We are all building something with our lives today. Whether we plan to or not, we are using every moment and every breath to make something. To make something of ourselves.

For the longest time, what I made of myself today looked an awful lot like what I made of myself yesterday. Mainly because I spent a lot of time convincing myself I didn't have what I needed to make anything different of myself.

It's easy to make of yourself today what you made of yourself yesterday. You simply wake up today and go with the flow of yesterday. Patterns are easy to do, they just aren't always easy to live with when you're doing them.

Tim Timberlake says, "Even when the mundane mindset dares to dream, its perceived reality can seem like a malicious jailer determined to thwart your every chance."

I think we forget that some days. That the mind that dreams is the same mind that says dreaming is a waste of time. The mind that says I can become something new and beautiful is the same mind that reminds us of all the old and haunting. The mind that says you can do it is the same mind that says, how? - you've never done it before.

It's the same mind, different stories, controlled by the same person.

Controlled by me.

Controlled by you.

So much of our lives is controlled by the story our minds tell us. We fail to excercise the contol over our lives that we actually do have because we think it's a jailer telling that story. Or maybe, when life goes well, we think it's a magician. Or God.

But God tells us often to take captive our minds. He frequently challenges us to renew our minds. God reminds us that he's given us a lot of freedom to tell ourselves the stories we want to live out. When we tell ourselves a different story, that's us, not anyone else.

So it's Monday. You WILL build something today. And it will be you who tells yourself the story about that building.

Today, you can tell yourself all you have available is the same old crumbling bricks you've always used. Or, you can grab a new brick. Even if only one new brick. You might be surprised at how new a story starts to feel when you use just one new brick.

You might be surprised at the story you'll wake up telling yourself tomorrow.

Because you are the story you tell yourself. You might as well tell yourself one of hope and renewal.