Writer’s Block: It’s Not A Lie, It’s Faith: Explained

 

     From my book, “Becoming The Person You Told People You Were, there is a chapter titled, “It’s not a lie, It’s Faith.” This chapter speaks to the narratives that we create and repeat of or about ourselves, and how those narratives create our realities. 

    That said, I don’t care how you do it, but if you create a story... keep repeating it in your mind, from your mouth or in your journal—even via a book (your book), it will eventually manifest. And there’s a difference between lying about who you are vs. speaking into who you are to become.

     Just recently, I spoke with a woman who’s well into her sixties. She shares that “she feels that she’s running out of time (truth is we all are), and she feels she hasn’t “hit the nail on the head” yet in her life. She feels she hasn’t done nor does she sense what to next. Having spent a significant amount of her life as a spiritual (sometimes) “religious” adviser to others, she feels she has reached a stall in that space.” I asked her, “What hasn’t she done that she wished she had?” She replied, “Get a college degree—or finish my degree. I started, didn’t finish and though I share that I “went” to college, I don’t share that I never graduated. And if I am to be honest, that actually feels deceptive. And I don’t feel particularly good about it.” I responded, “Fix it, finish it. Get your degree.” She responded, “At my age?” I responded, “Especially at your age!” What a better way of becoming the person you told people you were? That’s the fulfillment and closure you bring to yourself. Yet it will be the beginning of a new story and trajectory you share with the larger community.  It’s your  example and [hope-story] for those that you have mentored. It sets you onto the next phase of your life, I concluded. And then we both cried!🌹

     Your repetitive narrative creates your current and future realities. Tested, tried and proven. 

     If you don’t like—not happy with your current realities/outcomes, change your repetitive narrative. Renew your mind and in most cases shut your mouth until your mind has been renewed and then and only then do you start to “speak that thing that is not as though it were” It’s then that you will come into the understanding of enjoying the “fruit” of your words.

“I have made thee a father of many nations”), in the presence of Him whom he believed, even God, who quickeneth the dead and calleth those things which are not, as though they were.”

~Romans 4:17~