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This too shall pass. . .

I've achieved so much in life
But I'm an amateur in love
My bank account is doing just fine
But my emotions are bankrupt

Feelings.  Love.  It may be hard to figure out your feelings and love most of all when you are unsure about how you want to proceed with love in your life.  Who says we need to be masters in love?  There is too much pressure trying to decipher someone else if you don't know who you are and how you are in a relationship.  Are you starved of emotions?  Being emotionally bankrupt means that you gambled so much or allowed in some way for your emotions to be used up, whittled away, squandered even if you thought you had an endless supply.

My body is nice and strong
But my heart is in a million pieces
When the sun is shining so am I
But when the night falls, so do my tears

You might be trying to better yourself, be at your most optimum level.  Things are starting to take a real hold in your life, particularly when you are looking at ways to address all of the issues that you have been keeping at bay for so long - your own health, all of the other things that you want to be able to address that have prevented you from achieving goals that you have thought were not able to be attained.  For whatever reasons that you have doubted yourself, now is not the time to delay anymore.  We are seeing now that life is too short and we never know what tomorrow brings.  But when emotions come to play, you should entertain them, because you don't know yourself well enough without seeing what you are truly like.

Sometimes the beat is so loud in my heart
That I can barely tell our voices apart
Sometimes the fear is so loud in my head
That I can barely hear what God says

There are times when hard criticism is necessary, but how can you tell the difference?  Negativity, and too much of it, can prevent you from treating yourself in a loving way.  Instead, if you focus too much on your weaknesses and what you do wrong, you can start to lose sight of your strengths and what you can do right, what you can do well.  God reminds us that despite our mistakes if we realise them for what they are, ask Him to take those away and to help remind us to stay true the course of our destiny, we will find the joys that lead us there faster.  I mean, aren't you ready to get there already?

But then I hear a whisper that this too shall pass
I hear the angels whisper that this too shall pass
My ancestors whisper that this day will one day be the past
So I walk  in faith that this too will pass

What difficulties are holding you back?  Don't wait for them to just pass.  Be proactive and find ways to hustle them along.  But I guess it also depends on what you are willing to do in terms of being able to do this with as little effort as you are willing to expend.  Do you pay attention to the whispers that find their way into your ears?  We forget to listen really carefully to the wind sometimes.  That's where you will find whispers, they live there and you can hear them when you can weed out the noises and commotion of everyday life.  You just need to be still and think about what those whispers are trying to tell you.  Stop listening to the wrong whispers, those ones of self-doubt and negative sources that stifle your growth, tell you the wrong choices to make, and clearly want you to never move.



The one that loved me the most
Turned around and hurt me the worst
Been doing my best to move on
But the pain just keeps singing me songs

Have you come to terms with the hurt caused by people who love you the most?  Maybe they have no idea that they are hurting you because they think that what they are doing is love.  I told someone recently that being mistreated in love is like if you are a flower in a garden.  Instead of someone trying to possess you and pick you from the tree, you don't bloom for long and you end up withering and dying because they wanted to keep your beauty for themselves, they wanted to make sure that they were the only ones that enjoyed your beauty.  But if people really love you, they should come and spend time with you, learn how to nurture you and appreciate your beauty without trying to possess you.

My head and heart are at war 
'Cause love ain't happening the way I want it
Feel like I'm about to break down
Can't hear the light at the end of the tunnel
Is when I pray for healing in my heart
To be put back together what is torn apart
And I pray for the quiet in my head
That I can hear clearly what God says

When your head and heart are at war, this is a warning for you to take stock of what is happening.  If your body cannot agree with your choices, that's saying something.  You should not have to fight with yourself if you cannot know for sure that what you are doing is the right thing or not.  There should be other ways to know if what is happening is truly meant to be, or meant to pass.  Do you pray enough about how to heal your heart?  You should be putting faith in your own healing, because as long as you know what is best for you, even if you feel that it isn't quite here yet, trust that what is best for you is on its way.  Listen carefully to what is in your head.  See if it also resonates with your heart.

All of a sudden I realised
That it only hurts worst to fight it
So I embrace my shadow and hold onto the morning light
This too shall pass

Sometimes all you need to do is just believe that the hurt and the pain will be better only when it is accepted.  I'm not saying that you should feel abused.  But you should succumb to it and let it wash over you.  It only hurts for a little while before you realise how to solve it the next time it reappears.  You have to take the time to acknowledge the damage that it causes, understand how you feel, and then figure out ways to never have to feel this way again.  Do you find yourself trying to chase away shadows?  Sometimes we need to sit in that shade of a shadow and wait for the sun to finally arrive.

I hear the angels whisper that trouble don't have to last always
I hear the angels whisper even the day after tomorrow will one day be yesterday
I hear my angels whisper
I hear my angels whisper
This too shall pass

I hope that you spend more time on your own.  Figure out more about yourself.  Learn about things that you have been putting off for so long.  Take note of the whispers that are insistent and never stop.  Take the time to invest in yourself and look after yourself,  You cannot expect to rely on others to care for you, when you have not tried to address this yourself.  Know that opportunities are on their way.  Believe that you are able to survive anything that comes from your past.  Live for today and spend time with people who truly value you.  Turn away from repeating the same patterns of behaviour that do you no good.  Remember that bad things never stay for long.  They just remind you that they are here to teach us how to aim for the good things in life.  These moments of pain will not last, just remember that no matter how hard things look right now, this too shall pass. . . 

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