I don't know when it happened but I
just realized that I am playing the victim in nearly every area of my
life, blaming my circumstances instead of myself. I just read a HONY
post about a woman whose life has been turned upside down, mostly of
her own doing, and a response, by someone who I have now decided to
follow, which included the quote “a bird in a tree never fears the
branch will break because her faith is not in the branch but in her
own wings.” WHOA. I focused on the word faith in that quote and
thought about what that means to me, to Christians, to how we pray
and realized that our version of this quote is that “a bird in a
tree should not focus her energy on praying for the branch not to
break but focus on trusting in the wings that the Lord has given her
to be able to fly when/if the branch does break.” The world
breaks/is broken and I cannot continue to trust in the world, to
trust in others to be careful with me, to trust the way the company
works, to wait for something external to motivate me. I have to take
charge of my own life and my own circumstances and the only way to do
that is from the inside out.
