Your Crisis Will Up Level You

 

Your crisis will up level you!  So many of us don’t want the pain of the push but we want the baby! You cannot have one without the other.  The crisis you face today is the culmination of the curriculum that you needed to get through the course.  If you had quit in first grade then you would have never graduated from school.  If you had not pushed through the pain of birth, then you wouldn’t have seen the magic of your child being born.  It’s time to up level in all areas of your life.  Stop playing small so others will understand and accept you for the person they know.  I always say if you knew me yesterday but haven’t talked to me in weeks, then you don’t know who I am.  I am ever changing and I refuse to apologize for that.  God has me on a course of development and preparation for the many doors that are about to swing open.  As I prepare to step inside there will be things that cannot remain the same in my life, and that should be true with you as well.   There are many people who came with you that cannot go where God is taking you.  Don’t feel guilty about that.  There is a time and season for everything under the sun.  It’s your time now!  Every day I ask God for a closer walk with Him, a deeper understanding of my purpose and the ability to walk confidently in it.  I also ask for a word for me and a word for the world, and I close by asking for a quicker discernment of His voice and the quickness to respond to it.  So when I get the answers each day to those requests I may not look like who you think I am.  And that’s alright!

Why You Do What You Do

Why do you do what you do?  As I sat in my prayer closet the other day looking around at my quotes, affirmations, scriptures and photos, it dawned on me that none of those things represent my ‘why.’ Do you truly know your ‘why’?  Some call it their passion or their purpose.  Others say it’s their reason for being here on earth.  And some even consider it their reason for waking up in the morning.  Sitting in that closet on that particular day, I realized that being diagnosed with breast cancer in 1985 is my ‘why’.

When I share my life stories of triumph over the past thirty-three years, it is because I took what could have been a sad day and turned it into a miraculous moment of self-discovery and purpose. Yes, I am passionate about what I do as a motivational speaker and author, but it’s not my ‘why.’  Although I look forward to waking up every day and doing what I love, (Geri Speak), it is not my ‘why’ or my reason for being on this earth.  All of those things came as a result of breast cancer and they continue to be an offshoot that allows me to be the best version of myself.  God has gifted me as a writer and speaker in a way that nobody else does it.  I am not  better than any other speaker or writer, it simply means that I am the best at being Geri.  My life story cannot be told by anyone else and neither can yours!  So when you think about your ‘why’, make sure that you dig deeper than your family, your job, your passion, or your purpose.  Most likely you will find your ‘why’ in one of the scariest moments of your life.  There is no timeframe for when that will happen.  You may be age two or thirty-two.  Some never discover their ‘why’ at all.  It took me thirty years and I’m glad to be living the rest of life as my best life! Remember your ‘why’!