Celebrate

Let me start by asking, how are you doing? Are you staying afloat? I cannot begin to explain emotionally how I am feeling with everything going on. Each day there is a new story, a new name turning into a hashtag. On top of that people are out in the world as if there is not still a pandemic happening. Whew, it’s a hot mess. That’s just simply put.

In the midst of everything however I managed to have a really good week last week. I got 5 workout days in and my water intake is continuing to increase (I can’t believe last year this time I was drinking at a MINIMUM one gallon per day. I’m getting there but…baby steps.) I was able to get out with some of my girls to honor Juneteenth and went walking in the park with a friend. My week was pretty packed with positivity, but on top of it all I received some very great news. Something that I have been praying over for quite some time.

It was pretty exciting. I found myself in a weird head space about it though. Why me and why now? Of course I was grateful and thankful but did I really get the answer I was hoping for all this time? So many questions were running through my head. I couldn’t even take it all in, didn’t take a beat to celebrate. I was too nervous that maybe it was a fluke. I’d been waiting so long that I didn’t really know how things would turn out. But I experienced last week really what in “God’s timing not mine” felt like. Not that I haven’t before, but this was different.

Then I started to think how silly I was being. It is silly of me not to celebrate the answer to my prayers. It is foolish not to allow myself to be happy and sit in my excitement. God doesn’t bless us for us to continue to walk around sulking, no! So I am taking some time to enjoy my good news and simply celebrate myself. I wanted to tell you to do the same. Celebrate something this week. It may be something large or small, but it is all worth celebrating. We are still alive and that alone is enough to celebrate. We must find something that is worth celebrating. Don’t have anything to celebrate personally? Find someone in your life that is worth celebrating or could use the encouragement. Let’s celebrate ourselves and the ones we love!

Do you have something that you are excited about and want to publicly celebrate? Or you know one close to you that is worth celebrating or needs to learn to celebrate themselves/their accomplishments? Share below or share this post with that someone!