MOTIVATIONAL OF THE DAY


ACCEPTANCE

MOTIVATIONAL OF THE DAY

STARTING A NEW CHAPTER...

To start a new chapter of our lives we need to have turned the page on the last one, left it BEHIND and moved ON. Whilst the events of chapters past have helped shaped us into what and where we are now - and may even have some role in what we will become and where we might go - they ARE done and should be LEFT in the past where they belong.

You canNOT move forward if you are holding ON to the past, if your mind is living in the past instead of the present, not focused on the future and where you are heading. DON’T let what happened in previous chapters of your life dictate what you do in and with your life NOW.

Sometimes it can be difficult, but don’t treat the people in your present as if they were the people from your past, because they are not. Yes, be cautious and learn from past mistakes and errors in judgement, but do not let what happened then close you off from the potential blessings that could be yours and cloud your mind and heart to what is or might be happening now, for not all circumstances are the same, and not everything plays out the way it did before.

Keep your mind and heart OPEN to what the next chapter of your life might bring. Stay close to HOPE and know what you want to see, but also keep a grasp of truth and accept that not all things are destined for us, knowing that they each have their time if they ARE meant to be.

Do NOT let the past hold you back and stop you from becoming EVERYTHING you are MEANT to be and possessing everything you are meant to have! Accept it, learn from it, and move FORWARD! Turn the page to a NEW chapter of your life and EMBRACE what is to come!

© Rosie Chee

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EDGE OF DIFFICULTY

Sometimes in our lives it seems like one thing after another – if it’s not pain it’s conflict and if not conflict then another intense emotion, and so on. Sometimes it seems like there is no “calm” and only “storm”, one difficulty after another, obstacles that challenge us when we might feel that we’ve already reached the limit of what we can handle at this moment. Sometimes it can be hard to remember that He is guiding our paths and to trust that He knows what He’s doing.

But we must – trust. Trust that He knows what He has to do to us in order to make us stronger. To make us fully aware and capable of all that He truly wants in our lives. To give us the courage and determination to never ever “settle” or “lie down” and fight for what is ours and “right”. To push us so that we have to acknowledge that we are but human and cannot do this on our own strength and ask Him for HIS, knowing how futile was our own capacity the last time we tried and fell and almost broke as we did.

Trust can be so hard – knowing what your trust has “given” before. But He is not like the world and in Him your trust is NOT misplaced. Even when it seems that He ignores you, when your faith can be even more tested and trust questioned, He is not, because sometimes He wants you to learn from what is transpiring, whether to take the risk to spread your wings and fly, no matter how tentatively, or realize that He is the source of your strength and power.

If you cannot fly – if you keep trying and fall time and again, plummeting further each time it seems than the last attempt, when your soul despairs so close to “giving up”, that’s when you just need to learn to let go and let GOD. You might dream recurring of falling in endless black since childhood, and sometimes yes, you may have “hit the bottom”, and in life you may feel like you can and have fallen too far to be saved, but He can and WILL catch you before your final resolution.

It takes a lot of courage to trust – even a little, let alone completely. But we must hold onto faith and believe as we do all that WE can in facing what faces us and trust that HE will do His part as we do ours. It is a partnership relationship that sometimes you might feel you can give less than you receive, but in doing even what you can and placing your trust in His hands, you are allowing something much MORE to happen and can create much more than you might ever fathom.

© 2014 Rosie Chee

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TROUBLED WATERS

If you’ve ever been in the ocean on a stormy day you’ll know what it’s like out there - how rough, the waves pounding down, pummelling the shore, hard and heavy, even in the deeper waters, debris washing ashore, taken from far out to sea. Storms cast wide nets, troubling not just the shore but the HEART of the ocean itself as well, stirring it into a frenzy of confusion and distress.

But storms are not all horrible - they can be BEAUTIFUL and refreshing, and you find your CALM in the midst of all the chaos, clearing your mind of trouble. Amidst that storm, in all the cacophony of thought and action in and around you, you can find an inner STILLNESS, an inner sense of peace, a cleansing touch to wash AWAY the debris from your life and your heart.

We NEED the troubled waters to learn how to survive. We need them to show us how to stay AFLOAT. We are never meant to be there to flounder and struggle, and if we do such, only so that we discover HOW to swim, to TRIUMPH against the odds and come out VICTORIOUS. Troubled waters are just another test, another obstacle we must battle through in life.

In troubled waters we often FIND ourselves, discover what we are truly capable of, what we are willing to do just to stay alive. For none of us want to drown, even if we might think we do - all we want is to know that we’ll be ok, that we are NOT alone in our struggle. Sometimes we must experience that struggle to UNDERSTAND who we are and what we value in life, what we are living FOR and desire with all our soul.

Troubled waters make us do one of the hardest things in the world to do - look INSIDE ourselves and see what is there. Is it a soul worth saving? Of course it is. Is there anything that needs to be let go of and left behind for good? Absolutely. Is there more than we thought possible hidden deep down in the depths? Yes, just waiting for the right time to reveal itself and come into its own.

Troubled waters give us an OPPORTUNITY to say yes or no to life and determine in our hearts how we will LIVE that life if we choose to save it; to see what we are truly made of and capable of being and BECOMING; to see life from a different perspective, CHANGED from the inside out. Troubled waters CLEANSE us and prepare us for what is to come, the future and all the Blessings it has WAITING.

© Rosie Chee

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EDGE OF DIFFICULTY

Sometimes in our lives it seems like one thing after another – if it’s not pain it’s conflict and if not conflict then another intense emotion, and so on. Sometimes it seems like there is no “calm” and only “storm”, one difficulty after another, obstacles that challenge us when we might feel that we’ve already reached the limit of what we can handle at this moment. Sometimes it can be hard to remember that He is guiding our paths and to trust that He knows what He’s doing.

But we must – trust. Trust that He knows what He has to do to us in order to make us stronger. To make us fully aware and capable of all that He truly wants in our lives. To give us the courage and determination to never ever “settle” or “lie down” and fight for what is ours and “right”. To push us so that we have to acknowledge that we are but human and cannot do this on our own strength and ask Him for HIS, knowing how futile was our own capacity the last time we tried and fell and almost broke as we did.

Trust can be so hard – knowing what your trust has “given” before. But He is not like the world and in Him your trust is NOT misplaced. Even when it seems that He ignores you, when your faith can be even more tested and trust questioned, He is not, because sometimes He wants you to learn from what is transpiring, whether to take the risk to spread your wings and fly, no matter how tentatively, or realize that He is the source of your strength and power.

If you cannot fly – if you keep trying and fall time and again, plummeting further each time it seems than the last attempt, when your soul despairs so close to “giving up”, that’s when you just need to learn to let go and let GOD. You might dream recurring of falling in endless black since childhood, and sometimes yes, you may have “hit the bottom”, and in life you may feel like you can and have fallen too far to be saved, but He can and WILL catch you before your final resolution.

It takes a lot of courage to trust – even a little, let alone completely. But we must hold onto faith and believe as we do all that WE can in facing what faces us and trust that HE will do His part as we do ours. It is a partnership relationship that sometimes you might feel you can give less than you receive, but in doing even what you can and placing your trust in His hands, you are allowing something much MORE to happen and can create much more than you might ever fathom.

© 2014 Rosie Chee

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HEALING

Let go so you can grow. You might have thought you had let go, your smile so bright and happy of late, before one moment happens that pulls it from your soul like the darkness snuffing out the light of a candle. Letting go is never-ending, day by day until your soul’s smile remains unaffected no matter what.

Focus on what will heal you. It has been a long time coming, a process you thought almost complete until that moment. Yet, you know that when you think of it there is no more pain and you can smile at the memories and that which once caused great hurt and destruction. Focus on you here and now.

Release your soul into the wild. Allow yourself to do the things you might have always stepped back from. Take the risks your heart might have desired but your mind always fought and so you never dared before. Free the bounds that might hold you back from experiencing all of life’s wonders waiting for you.

Live, play, love and let life. Let loose your inner child again to roam free without thought through the landscapes of life. See the magic in the smallest things and revel in the beauty of a simple smile. Let your laugh echo, the sound of joy and delight in the beauty of life’s surprises.

Trust it all to work out. You would not be who you are now without where you have been. You would not become the person you will be tomorrow without the choices you make today on what you will leave and what you will take with you as you step into it. Let yourself truly heal and see what miracles can happen.

© 2013 Rosie Chee

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NEW

A year ago this date a pretty significant event for me occurred. It was significant in the mere fact that I even LET it happen. What followed began the journey of a heart opening up to life and the possibilities and dreams it had never dared before. A different type of strength was born, and emboldened by that strength a NEW creature began to emerge.

It is funny how fast time goes and how quickly everything can CHANGE even as nothing changes. I can look back and smile and feel that warm glow in my heart, even as that journey has ended and that creature no longer exists. I can look back and smile BECAUSE of the strength that still exists, even as it has developed and grown into something more than would have been imagined this date a year ago.

For this day is not this date a year ago. It is a NEW day. It is not a time for looking back except to remember fondly the happiness in such moments that were and learn from the experiences that sprung forth from them. It is a time for NEW strength to be moulded and new words to be written in a new chapter of this life.

With EVERY new day that dawns comes the opportunity for new adventures to begin, new dreams to be realized, new thoughts to be created, new strength to be born. It is a chance for RENEWAL of your soul, heart and mind, releasing what we have no control over to Him and taking accountability to change what we can make a difference in.

Every new day is the chance to CHOOSE to accept that the past no longer is, but that the lessons learnt are valuable. It is a chance to EMBRACE the new waiting, taking the strength you know exists and allowing it to let your smile be real, your heart to still hope, your faith to truly believe, and you to simply “be”, even as you will not let yourself stand still, constantly desiring forward movement.

As the new day starts take a moment to still your soul. Breathe in deeply and clear your mind. Seek the strength of your soul and pull it close. As it rises from within let it push away anything that would hinder your heart in moving FORWARD. Let your mind follow it, new footprints on sands wiped clean from the waves, new thoughts with new COURAGE at first a tiptoe and then a running leap becoming bounds.

New day. New strength. New thoughts. New beginning. New creature. BETTER YOU.

© 2013 Rosie Chee

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SURRENDER

Sometimes we are better off NOT knowing. Sometimes we need to STOP seeking answers that serve no purpose but to destroy us a little more each day we wonder or discover the truth. Curious creatures that we are we want to know, but we do not always NEED to.

Sometimes closure is simply walking AWAY. It is letting GO and letting God, understanding that He does not do things withOUT reason and that even in pain the bigger picture means that whatever we are forced to leave behind will serve to prepare us for what is to COME. It will make us STRONGER in spirit, heart, and mind, reinforcing the areas of our soul that need to “carry” us through until that time when we will finally see the WHY in all of this.

Sometimes we must SURRENDER our thirst for knowledge and let the answers lie. We must become comfortable with the fact that we might NEVER know the reason for such senseless action and everything that does not make sense and conflicts with everything we know to be true (or thought we did).

Sometimes we must trust that He is taking us away from something that would have caused far more destruction had we REMAINED where we were and is leading us towards the future we were always meant to be walking. That trust can be hard to find when your world has fallen apart around you, but there is something in you far greater than any devastation you can stand in, and that faith will be the anchor that keeps you able TO stand, as many times as it takes.

Sometimes SURRENDER is the best option. It is not a choice we have to make, but in making it our soul might finally find some rest, as we release our desire to be in control of everything and just hand over the steering wheel to let ourselves be DRIVEN.

© 2013 Rosie Chee

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NEW LEASE ON LIFE

When you’ve been through hell and back, not once, but MULTIPLE times, you learn to APPRECIATE life, learn from your experiences and the chance to grow stronger, thank God for the blessings He has bestowed upon you, and approach life with a “never say never” “risk everything” attitude. After all, you have only ONE life and only ONE chance to live it, so why not make it the BEST life you could possibly have?!

When a single experience changes you in ways you could never possibly imagine, you realize that life has so much MORE out there just waiting for you to discover it, breathe it, see it, LIVE it. It WANTS you to grasp every opportunity as a chance to do something GREAT with your life, an open door to leave as big an impression on as you can in passing through.

Every second, every minute, every hour of every day, is a chance. A chance to RISK, to put yourself out there and say “Bring it on!”, “Give me all you’ve got!”, to LIVE completely and without regret, knowing that you gave it EVERYthing you had and did the BEST you could with what you had and were given.

DON’T wait for “tomorrow” to come to start risking. DARE! Be Dangerous! Take the Plunge! LIVE LIFE AND LIVE IT NOW!

© Rosie Chee

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THE DIFFERENCE

Whether you believe it or not, there IS a difference between “giving up” and “starting over”.

When you give up, you GIVE UP you stop trying; you lose motivation; you refuse to see that you are closer to the end than you think; you allow negativity to control you and dictate your actions; you might never have had the passion and drive to begin with to see your goal through to the end.

Starting over is NOT giving up. It is realizing that some things are better UNdone than together, broken than complete; that not everything is meant to be or intended to happen, regardless of how much we might want it to be. Starting over is ACCEPTING that and giving yourself room to begin ANEW. It is giving yourself a second chance to get it right, to live your life the way it SHOULD be lived in order that it is complete and fulfilled as possible.

Others may see your “starting over” as “giving up”. It simply means that THEY do not yet know the difference and have yet to learn to meaning. Give them time; not everyone learns life’s lessons at the same rate, and some never want to know or acknowledge them. What matters is that YOU know it, and this is YOUR life, so LIVE it!

© Rosie Chee