Chronicles of Janice B. Life from the “A” – No the Other “A” – Asheville

Change

Ok I have a confession to make.  This week I freaked out and all hell broke loose!  I was like OMG what the hell did I just do?  I moved to a place I know no one, I had some serious financial challenges, and the job hunt was going a little slow! I must admit doubt and fear crept in.  So what’s a girl to do?  Pray of course.  Ah yeah that didn’t work!  I still felt lost, scared, and confused.  I was like if this was the right move for me, why are all these bad things happening and happening all at once.

After seriously panicking one night all night, the next day I got up the courage to call one of my close friends, who happens to have a very good spiritual eye. She said and I quote “Janice, that’s just the devil trying to block your blessing.  With all these things coming at you, you must have a mighty blessing coming your way.  Must be some kind of windfall!!  And she laughs.  Then she said now go play the lottery and when you win big remember little ol me!”  Then I laughed.  She was right when you are on the right track for your life, all hell will break loose!  Things will come at you that you wondered where the hell did that come from! So I thank God for my spiritual sisters out there!!!

Now the funny thing is, when you get real spiritual advice God has a way of confirming what you heard was right and of him.  So this morning when I was doing my morning devotions I came across this passage:

Change:  The old spiritual reminds us, “Nobody told me that the road would be easy…” and it’s not! It is not easy to shift out of what we do and how we do it.  It is not easy to shift our views in order to see new things in place of the old.  It is often confusing and frightening to make a shift away from the familiar in order to embrace the unknown.  Yet it is a necessary labor we must undertake in order to grow.  No matter how difficult, challenging, or hard it may seem, shifts are necessary when the time comes to free ourselves from the confinement of mental, emotional, or physical boxes.

All shifts create a vibration which in turn affects everything around it… Sometimes, in fear of the effects our changes will create, we delay making a much-needed shift in our minds and behaviors.  As a result, our lives and everything around us remain stuck.  When the time comes to move, we must move.  The longer we fight against it, the harder and more painful the movement becomes.” Iyanla Vanzant

So it was confirmed that no I’m not crazy for making such a drastic change to my life.  It was just time for me to shift gears.  It was time for me to start living my life that was authentically me.  And come to think about it I made that decision years ago while in high school to never follow the road well traveled but to follow the road less taken.  So I leave you with one of my favorite poems by Robert Frost:

Robert Frost (1874–1963)

The Road Not Taken

TWO roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth; 5 Then took the other, as just as fair, And having perhaps the better claim, Because it was grassy and wanted wear; Though as for that the passing there Had worn them really about the same, 10 And both that morning equally lay In leaves no step had trodden black. Oh, I kept the first for another day! Yet knowing how way leads on to way, I doubted if I should ever come back. 15 I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. 20

Until next time!!!! 

Enjoy the Journey

(Please feel free to check out my awesome novels: From the Brink of Insanity Comes the Light and The Forgotten A Love Story!)