We Win

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So I'm driving home after work and I'm taking a moment to reflect back on my year. I had some highs. I had some lows that tried to keep me down, but nothing compares to the moment where it all comes together. The moment where every lesson that God has sent you starts to reveal his perfect plan for your life. So I decided to tell you all 5 lessons that I learned this year that showed me I was a winner in the end of 2014. 

1. I deserve everything that this world has to offer.... I just have to go get it. If you know me for real you know that I am such a scaredy cat. I take the safe route in everything from what I eat to what I wear. The moment I have to step out of that comfort zone of safety I get really scared. Recently me and my best friend traveled to Mount Bonell. Now Destiny is definitely the free spirit... She's climbing to the top and I'm cool with just sitting at the bottom not trying to get hurt. This particular day she says to me "you will never know what beauty lies ahead if you always stay down at the bottom. There's beauty waiting for you up here at the top" whew there's beauty waiting for me, for you, for us at the top. Don't let fear cripple you from the place that you should be.   

2. It's okay to be human
So this year came with its share of transitions and in that transition life and God introduced me to Nevy. A lot of time I get so caught up in trying to be a "G" that I don't feel the things that I need to feel. One day me and Nevy were having one of our great heart to hearts and she says "Cre don't deny yourself the chance to feel and be human. There's nothing wrong with letting out how you feel. People focus too much on being perfect and realizing that the best blessings come in the form of knowing you don't have it all together." In that moment I realized two things. I don't have to be perfect. Two no one is asking me to be perfect. I'm striving for that all on my own. But what if our imperfections could lead someone out of a place that they have been hiding? What if maybe we shared the vulnerability of our hurts? The moment that I allowed myself to feel life made more sense. 

3. We are all flawed beautiful people. You know I have this running joke with all my friends "when I grow up I want to be a dime piece like you." The other day I said it to Corinne and she states "you are already perfect. Perfectly you Cre" how many of us are longing to be someone else in hopes that it will get us accepted by society? Truth is you don't know the journey that person that you are attempting to mirror has gone through. You don't know the tears that they have had to cry, the men or women that they have had to chase, or the prayers that they have had to pray. So I changed my prayers... I now am asking God to continue to uniquely mold me.

4. You have to love people on their level. This right here!!! I'm a sensitive person. Like someone can say that they think my scarf is ugly and I will probably start tearing up. As certain things started happening for me in my life and I started making certain decisions on things and people in my life weren't happy for me. My friend T. Page dropped some major wisdom on me "Creseida you have to learn the art of loving people on their level now. Everyone in your life is not going to always love everything that you do. If it makes you happy and you feel like it's something that you want to do then do it. Don't expect for people to love what you do because they probably won't." There's always going to be someone plotting  your demise in life. You have to learn how to love them just ------> over there. The art of guarding your heart is is has to become your main priority in life. 

5. I was born to be a winner. Okay so this year I got the opportunity to sample a song that I knew I was eventually going to write a blog on. "We Win" by Chasity has been a constant inspiration to my soul since the moment I heard it. It is the perfect track about overcoming. There's a winner stored deep inside of me. Did I always believe that I was a winner? No. God showed himself faithful through me and through other people. I get the chance everyday to show people the love of Christ through my actions and how he allows me to be a winner through him. So because I'm a winner you're a winner through Christ the Risen King. 

As you head to the new year and you start making all these New Years resolutions that you probably won't even keep. Let's resolve to push ourselves outside of our comfort zone for Christ. Let's challenge our faith more, pray more, get in our word more. Will it be easy? No but you will get out of it what you invest. I believe that Christ has already claimed us winners in His eyes but here's to being more, doing more. 

Dear God, 

I'm grateful for this year. I'm grateful for every fear you exposed, every blessing you sent, every moment you gave me. Truth is I'm nothing without you. I'm glad that you still see fit to call me your own. Here's to a new year filled with endless possibilities of your grace. 

Signed, 

Another Year Down

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