Sufficient For Every Season

“I thought you were strong enough to handle it all,” Sun said, “but it seems certain battles were burdens too heavy for you to bear.”

This statement crushed Green, who for so long believed that strength meant her showing up and showing off. Fortitude had always translated to defence and narrowing things down there and then, but, it seemed fate had a few more definitions to throw in. The downpour was the heaviest she had ever experienced and it hit Green in such a way that had her cave in and contemplate. For the first time, her default reaction was seeking cover and clarity. Green actually wanted to understand why she felt overwhelmed. Her roots were still standing but her leaves had undeniably been shaken.

Being a foreign concept to her, feelings of shame at her vulnerability creeped in. She could feel the “W” word, Weak ,being thrown at her and that crushed her. All her years of holding on to the title of a warrior were, in her mind, rapidly going down the drain, and it killed her.

Like Green, many of us have one picture of what a facet we embody should look like. Anything outside of that seems as a lesser expression and being a people that holds ourselves to standards, we detest that, so much so that we may even start to condemn ourselves and that is where life is suffocated.

Strength can and will at quite a number of points manifest itself in the ability to resist force and step up. Nevertheless, it can very much also express itself in a solidity that commands one to take a seat back and strategize. It may need you to grieve for some time and then start again. That’s challenging because patience now comes to play. You are now required to play the long game and rest in the assurance that who you are as a whole is who you are needed to ultimately be.

Coming to accept that it is okay for you to operate in all your diverse actualizations of a principle means that you need to fathom Matthew 6 vs 11 in a new light.

When scripture quotes that we be given our daily bread each day, it speaks on the importance of receiving what is only sufficient for a specific period. Likewise, we ought to have different types of strength or confidence in accordance to the difference of each season. In one instance, strength may have you as a trailblazer and in another, it may have you doing all the heavy heart work behind the scenes. Neither version is inferior, each is adequate, or better yet “ENOUGH.

Much love and blessings your way

Yours progressively

Pretty Conscience