Found in the Valley
"No season lasts forever. No season lasts forever. No season lasts forever." I have found myself writing this in my journal, speaking it over friends, and proclaiming it in my prayer life more than ever lately. For more reasons than one, I feel like I am walking through, (or living), rather- in the valley of what is to come, and for once, I am okay in my brokenness, in my not knowing, in my waiting, because I see the beauty of it all. More times than not, the valley isn't where we want to be. The valley is feared and avoided because the valley is often painful, but I see the valley as God's gym; it is where we go to grow, and if we don't surrender to the pressure and discomfort, we can't grow. I can walk into the gym every single day, but I will never grow until I pick up the weights, push myself past the comfort of what my muscles are used to, get sore, and come back and do it all again tomorrow. Growth exists when we push past the pain and realize we ar
