You Prayed for this Season

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What If This Season Isn't Meant to Be Rushed?

A few weeks ago, someone told me, "You haven't really been yourself lately. You don't do the things you used to do." If I'm being honest, it hit me harder than I expected. I cried about it. I replayed the comment in my mind. I started questioning myself. Was I losing myself? Was something wrong with me? Had motherhood, responsibilities, and life somehow changed me into someone I didn't recognize?

For a little while, I beat myself up over it.

Then one day I realized something. They were right.

I haven't been myself lately. But not because something is wrong. Because I'm not that person anymore.

Over the last year and a half my life has changed in ways I once prayed for. I bought my first home. Seven weeks ago, I welcomed my second baby into the world. My days look different. My priorities look different. Even the things that bring me joy look different.

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et somewhere along the way, I found myself feeling pressure to keep moving. To think about the next goal. The next project. The next milestone. The next thing I should be doing. And that's when it hit me.

What if this season isn't asking me to do more?

What if it's asking me to be present?

I think so many of us spend our lives chasing the next thing that we never fully enjoy the thing we already have. We tell ourselves we'll slow down after the promotion. After we buy the house. After we have the baby. After we reach the goal. After life settles down.

But then we get there, and instead of celebrating, we immediately start focusing on what's next.

I know I'm not the only one who does this!!

We spend so much time looking ahead that we forget to look around.

We rush through moments we once dreamed about.

We pray for blessings and then barely pause long enough to enjoy them.

You look back at those moments and it is all a blur.

Lately, I've been realizing that this season of my life isn't meant to be rushed. It's meant to be lived.

It's meant to be the late-night baby snuggles that I'll probably miss one day.

It's meant to be creating memories in the home I worked so hard for.

It's meant to be slower mornings, fuller days, and learning how to appreciate what is instead of constantly chasing what could be.

And maybe that's what growth looks like sometimes.

Not becoming someone new.

Not achieving more.

Not proving yourself.

Just allowing yourself to fully arrive in the life you've already built.

Maybe you've felt this too.

Maybe you've been putting pressure on yourself to keep up, move faster, accomplish more, or become the version of yourself you think you're supposed to be.

But what if this season isn't asking that from you?

What if this season is simply asking you to be here?

To notice.

To appreciate.

To experience.

To live.

Because one day, the things that feel ordinary right now may become the things you miss the most.

So tell me, What blessing in your life have you been so busy managing that you've forgotten to enjoy it?

SoulFuel Reminder

Sometimes the next level of growth isn't learning how to get somewhere else.

It's learning how to be fully present where you are.

"You prayed for some of the things that you are rushing through right now"