Better Late Than Never

This is a travel weekend for me and I flew one timezone backward. Generally, no biggie. Except I completely forgot to backwards adjust my day to leave enough time for my usual morning routine, including sharing my thoughts. So today, soon after waking, I had to jump onto a morning work call and into the day’s tasks, effectively eliminating my post for the day.

Or so I thought. For the rest of the morning, something within me wasn’t sitting quite right. I tried to pay it no mind and keep going but it wouldn’t go away.

Late in the morning, I received an email from a friend with some encouraging words about my writing. It wasn’t super long or super in depth; it was a quick 2–3 sentence note. But that note eliminated any doubt I had about the cause of my discomfort. I needed to write. I needed to share. I just had to speak some positivity and encouragement into the world.

And so much like my path to today’s post, I would encourage you all to think about your own journeys to becoming you. So many of us have those deep desires and burning fires just itching to be fanned and grown — motivations deep inside just begging to be given voice to. But for so many of us, it’s “too late,” we’re “too old,” and we’ve now got “too much lose” to now pursue what we actually desire and hope for.

Well let me make this short and sweet: the only thing you have to lose right now is you. By not giving life to those things you know deep down inside embody who you are, who you are called to be and what you are called to do on this journey called life, you are wasting your God given gifts and talents — you are losing out on you.

Don’t listen to those voices — both external and internal — telling you “it won’t work” or “it’s just too risky.” The only true risk you face is not giving yourself a chance to be who you were meant to be — the person inside that all of creation is waiting for you debut on the world’s stage of life.

A gift received is always a gift to be appreciated, regardless of when it comes. Shower your gifts upon the world. Shower yourself upon the world. And watch and see the joy it brings to you and to those who are fortunate enough to encounter your gift of you.