Trust is Freedom; Worry is a Cage
What if we could know in our bones that everything was going to be okay?
Wouldn't that change everything? Wouldn't that make whatever challenges we face today seem trivial, even good -- like healthy challenges that help us grow? What a huge difference that would be.
Yet, as I look back on my 46 years -- though I've faced plenty of challenges -- so far everything actually has been okay.
If only I could tell my past self -- last-year me, two-years-ago me, ten-years-ago me: "I know this is hard, but even though it may not feel like it now, I want you to know: everything is going to be okay."
How would that have changed things for me back then? Back then, I was certain I wasn't going to make it through.
Yet here I am. And here you are, too.
After everything that's happened so far, we're still here. We're breathing in. We're breathing out. We're alive.
And yes, it's true that one day that will actually not be the case. But even then, maybe all will be well...
So here we are today, with a big decision to make: do we keep going this way -- where every challenge has us scared out of our minds and wondering if we'll make it through?
When in your life, if you had chosen to believe in your bones that everything was going to be okay, would you have been worse off? In almost every case you would have been significantly better off. Why do you think today is different?
We've been giving our years to worry; there's a better way: trust.
Trust feels good in the body. Trust feels good to others, too. And trust often leads to better results to boot. Trust is freedom; worry is a cage.
But trust takes courage. Like jumping from a plane and trusting the parachute will open...
We've waited in the plane long enough. It's time to jump. To trust. And to believe. So let me join your future self in telling you today:
Everything is going to be okay.