The Quiet Whispers of Wisdom

“You’ll never be able to give him a good life”…

They were right, you know… I had nothing to offer. I was 17 years old, a pretty solid ‘F’ student… no real direction and honestly, success felt like a pipe dream… but still I had this nagging little voice inside me…this small glimmer of hope, and I wondered… what if? And when his big brown eyes met mine, I suddenly had a purpose…

He’s been my side kick since I was still a baby myself… so much of life we figured out together… and when everyone else was pointing out the obvious ways I was failing all over the place, he was my biggest cheerleader… my strength… my constant reminder of what I was fighting for… that we were a team…

You know what’s hard sometimes? Leaning in faith when the obvious signs are all there… that there’s no way it will work, that you have no evidence of why you’d make it… no roadmap on how to get there… it’s so easy to choose fear…

But I’ve learned in life, that wisdom stands in the field with you… quietly. It’s the whispers that guide you… because fear? Fear is loud… fear is the voice of all the critics standing on the sideline… and sometimes we have to slow down to hear it… to see it, to remember why we started fighting in the first place…

“You can do it Mommy.” I still choose to hear that sweet little voice… I choose to believe him… even when it’s hard… especially when its hard…

Who are you choosing to listen to? I hope you lean in on faith, even against all odds… I hope you stop reminding yourself of where you’ve been, to know that you get to change the path of where you’re going at any second… to know that there’s magic in that… and if you don’t have anyone else saying it to you today I hope you hear me in the field… I hope you hear my whisper above the critics on the sidelines… YOU can do it!