40 - Happy Anniversary From The In-Between Space!

It’s been two years since I started this website. April 2021.

Originally, I was writing with the intent of publishing a book. But I like this format better. It gives me a chance to work on different things: sharing thoughts, sharing quotes, sharing recipes, sharing crafts, and most recently, sharing surgery details. I have a lot of different ideas about a lot of different things.

My newest thought is about changing my website. A rebranding, of sorts. I want to get back to where I started this.

Back to being focused.

I’ve gone through a lot the last couple of years. We all have. It’s called, “life.” It keeps happening whether I’m ready or not. It throws curveballs, whether I’m wearing a glove and paying attention, or not. It just keeps coming.

But I like it better when I’m ready. There was that one day back in two thousand-something that I had it all together. I was prepared. I’m always looking for my life to be like that.

But it isn’t.

One day of not paying attention or being intentional leads to another day of the same. Pretty soon it’s one week that turns into one month that turns into one year. Year after year of slowly fading into nothingness.

It’s a slow fade.

That’s a very common phrase right now. Slowly falling out of love.. so slow that you don’t even know what or how it happened. Slowly checking out at work. Caring less, giving less.

The opposite is true as well: It’s a slow gain.

I’m constantly frustrated about where I am right now. I just want to get on with my life!

Waiting on the surgery.

Recovering from the surgery.

Finishing the construction.

Finishing the school year.

Getting to the good thing or getting away from the bad.

I want to move forward with my life!

I’m always looking at the next thing. Or trying to get through the last.

What about right now?

I need to be where I am at! I’m always trying to change it or rush it.

I don’t want to experience it. I want to be through it.

But I need to stop.

STOP!

Just be where I am.

Be in the moment.

I need to appreciate slowly moving back into where I want to be. It doesn’t have to happen over night or be a lightning fast a-ha moment. As a matter of fact, it usually isn’t.

I’m just in the in-between space.

Why am I here??

What does this moment want to teach me??

Last week, I had a tremendous setback in my healing. It’s been over a week and I am still not where I was before. It’s taking a long time to get back on track.

And yet..

Did I just lose that week+ with nothing to show for it? That’s what my mind is trying to trick me into believing. But it isn’t true.

Yes, health-wise I had a huge step backwards. But something miraculous happened in the midst.

When I was at my lowest, not even remembering that it was my two year anniversary of the website, a really cool thing happened! When the room was spinning and darkness was creeping in, all around me, I remembered a very important thing. Something that I talk a lot about, but don’t often stop to reevaluate.

I have purpose. And not only that, it hasn’t been fulfilled.

My website has been read by people in 323 cities worldwide, and in 41 countries besides the US. I am being read in the Philippines, the UK, India, Portugal and Saudi Arabia. I am read in Sweden, Germany, Ireland and Austria. As well as many more.

Am I bragging?

Hell, yes, I’m bragging!

My life has meaning and purpose! And that is something worth yelling from the rooftop!!

And so, on the second anniversary of the beginning of this website, I want to get back to my purpose.

To love people.

That is part of my purpose and I work on achieving that every single day. I don’t always succeed, but I’m trying.

Also:

To encourage people to find their purpose, their passion and then to walk in it.

That’s what I want to do. To help you find your path, and then encourage you to be brave enough to choose to do it.

How about it?

Are you ready to figure out why you are here?

And are you ready to start taking those steps of purpose in your life?

There may be an in-between space that seems useless, but trust me when I tell you it’s not. There is a point, a purpose, a reason for everything.

Even the quiet.

But let’s choose to move forward anyway.

Let’s go!