I Made Something For You
Dear Friend,
I’m getting ready to travel soon. I’ll be graduating from my Master Coach certification and I am so excited. But I’m also dealing with a low level hum of anxiety over this trip — it’s been waking me up in the middle of the night.
You see, Troy will be with me to celebrate and I’m so thankful. But while we’re there he’ll be traveling to a couple of different work sites on his own. You might wonder why that’s a big deal in my mind.
Troy has adrenal insufficiency — his adrenal glands don’t work the way they should. Sometimes when we travel they act up and if it gets bad I have to get him to an ER. His meeting will be about four hours from where we’re staying. And so my mind has been packing its bags and heading straight to Futureville — that place where you live out every worst case scenario before it’s even happened — whirling and twirling through every what-if, trying to control events that haven’t even happened yet. And might not.
Many times he has traveled and been just fine. But here I am carrying the weight of something that isn’t even real yet. And I am exhausted.
I don’t think I’m alone in this. And I don’t think you are either.
What are you carrying right now — tucked deep inside your heart?
Maybe you don’t like to think about it because it’s too painful. Or maybe you find yourself thinking about it all the time and you can’t make it stop.
Your mind loves to wander back to the past — looking for a loophole, hoping that if you find it you can somehow change what’s going on right now. But all the searching won’t change it. And next thing you know you’ve spent hours in a place that’s already over. We can’t travel back to fix anything. No matter how many times we replay it.
Or maybe your mind goes the other direction — straight into the future, preparing for every possible worst case scenario, bracing for a disaster that might not even happen. Either way friend, you are exhausted.
And I want you to know — I know this story because I live it too. I’m learning to lay down what I cannot fix and cannot control. To let Jesus carry what was never mine to carry in the first place.
That’s what this summer is about. And I don’t want you to walk it alone.
I made something for you. It’s a free Reflection and Prayer Guide — Weary Traveler: Rest for the Over-Carrying Soul— and it will walk you right to the foot of the cross with whatever you’re carrying today.
[Click here to download your free guide.]
And then come find me at the When You Cannot Fix It podcast series. Episode One is live and waiting for you right now.
We’re going on this journey together — one week at a time, one thing at a time, learning to lay it all down.
And if you find yourself thinking — I need someone to walk through this with me personally — I offer a free consultation. No pressure, no obligation. Just a conversation and some tools to help you get started.
You were never meant to carry all of this, friend.
With love, Michelle