Detours, New timelines & New beginnings.
it’s time for the new, be open..
New week, new letter! Hey everyone it’s been a minute since I wrote to you last. How’s your month been? June has been a full month for me 😅. But I’m grateful otherwise.
🗞️ Round-up of Lessons in Seasons
Let’s get into today’s encouraging word!
It’s time to move forward. What are you holding on too tightly too? A failed relationship? Rejection? Disappointments? While these experiences can be painful, it’s important we don’t allow our present lives to be a cast of the past. We often don’t realise how much we are failing to see now because of what may have happened to us. As much as there’s a place for grieving situations, there is also a time to leave the past behind, and step into the now. If this is you, it’s time to move forward, it’s not easy but it’s worth taking the step.
Now let’s get into today’s newsletter! ♥️
We’re slowly coming to the end of Q2 and I thought to speak on timing on today’s newsletter. I shared more on this last month so catch up here if you missed it. But today what I want to focus on is navigating a new plan when life doesn’t quite pan out the way we expect it to.
Unexpected Turns
Life will always have unexpected turns and the truth is they can be hard to accept. What happens when you launch out to pursue a goal, and it doesn’t quite produce the results you want? Or plans you had believed will work accordingly, completely disintegrate and you’re left to go back to the drawing board? How does one navigate this?
Last year I read a book called ‘Divine Disruption’ and it changed my perspective on accepting unexpected turns in life. Our plans will not always work out the way we want them to. The Bible speaks on how ultimately, it is God’s will that will prevail depsite our plans (Proverbs 19:21). When I consider this, it makes me question where is my sense of security derived from? Is it found in me achieving my goals in timelines I may set? Is confidence derived from life happening exactly how I want it to? Or is it more so an inner peace derived from trusting the one (God) who orders my steps and believing that even though I didn’t quiet anticipate this change, it is still working together for my good?
What is your sense of security rooted in?
I think it’s natural for our security to be derived in tangible things like our friends, jobs, money etc. But what I’ve found is all these are fleeting. Friends will change, money will come and go, our job roles will change, but who I’ve found to be the most unchanging is — God. So even when everything around us seems shaky or is changing, we can be still knowing that if we have God, we truly have everything.
That being said, make space for the new. Sometimes it’s so easy to be pre-occupied with how different we would have liked for things to pan out. And while it’s fine to grieve outcomes, there is also a place for moving forward and continuing.
So —what does the new look like for you?
Dreaming again?
Making room for new relationships?
A new pace of life?
Focusing less on how you thought things will pan to finding contentment with how things are?
I don’t know what this looks like for you, but it’s time to make space for more.
A verse I’ve been meditating on is:
“But forget all that— it is nothing compared to what I am going to do. For I am about to do something new. See, I have already begun! Do you not see it? I will make a pathway through the wilderness. I will create rivers in the dry wasteland.”
Isaiah 43:18-19 NLT
I shared this video at the start of the year and thought to bring it back again. I share more on new beginnings and choosing to believe. Enjoy! 💖
It’s time to step forward, and if you’ve been looking for a reminder or sign, this is it. As June comes to a close and we step into a new quarter I’m very expectant and I hope you are too? 2024 may not have unravelled as you may have wanted, you may not have achieved your goals when you thought it was best. But I want to remind you, that the year is not over. Slow progress is still progress, but ultimately, there are times and seasons. Between sowing and the harvest, there is a waiting period. This is a time for the seed to receive all the nourishment it needs and space to grow. Maybe that’s you now. You may not have physical results yet to attribute to all that you have sown, but the harvest will come. God will bring the harvest in due season. And until then I hope you’re able to gain perspective and trust that in time everything will become beautiful.
I shared this post on my instagram page at the start of the month and it’s a great reminder considering today’s newsletter:
As always I would like to hear your thoughts. What stood out to you? Is there anything you’ve realised you need to let go of? Share them with me.
I’m also officially on ⏰ app: let’s connect over there. Even as we wrap up today’s newsletter, hold unto these reminders
Between seed time and harvest time, there’s a period of waiting.
Life may not always unravel as we want it to, but regardless of the circumstance, all things will and are working together for your good.
Make space for the new, your best days are ahead of you.
Share this with someone who may need this reminder:
And I’ll see you next week!
Love,
Rhieme
This is so timely and beautiful 🩷. I came across that verse recently and understood it to mean that regardless of our mistakes or wrong decisions, God's plan for us will prevail; His plan allows room for our mistakes. So even the detours we think we’re ‘having’ to take is all calculated :). May he continue to show us the right path.
Always meeting us at the right time!🥺 God bless the works of your hands in ways your mind can’t comprehend ameen💕