5 Ways to Begin to Save Your Life:

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Aug 24, 2017 · 2 min read

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  1. Speak. Especially when you feel that you are sinking. You know these moments, those secrets, the feeling of falling slowly into silence when all your mouth wants to give out into the world is a scream for help. This is the time for a sound. You do not even need to trust yourself, open your mouth for Heaven’s sake. Your spirit knows to say this: I need help.
  2. Accept. Try hard not to push truths away from you. Truths know how to grow, whether you make the room for them or not. Did a thing happen? Accept it. And now, the trying question: Can you change it? Perhaps not, but did you not survive? Did you not see, and hear, and taste each day of freedom, finding that you do not need to live chained? Acceptance is not for God, it is for you.
  3. Find. What gives you joy? Can you incorporate these things into your life more? Nothing is too small. Can I tell you a truth? When you are low, the things you are most resistant towards, the things you keep postponing and making excuses not to do: are some of the things you need most. Putting off playing your instrument? Writing? Starting a project? You need it. Do it. You are capable.
  4. Remember. Life can change, in marvellous ways. What do you have today that you can be thankful for? Family? Friends? Who are the people who you know pray for you? Not everyone has them, and they won’t last forever. Thank God. Thank God, that love is a rising force.
  5. Decide. You have so much power, far more than you realise. Mountains can move, seas can roar, but at the end of it the choice is still yours to decide. Do you want to move forward? Do you want to save your life? Learn to speak your decisions to yourself, even the small ones. The decision to get out of bed. The decision to complain less. The decision to write today. The decision to pray. The decision to forgive yourself.

Here are 5 ways to begin to save your life.

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