It’s Time To Tell Your Story
Everybody has one. That is a story. Everybody has a story. As we live our story continues. The problem enters when we don’t know what to do with our story or worse yet, we ignore our story. The statements come from one who has done just that over the years. Yes, that would be me.
It’s bad enough if it was just me doing this atrocity, ignoring my story and ignoring the door that yields answers but the crowd of people in the same position may astound you. Research shows over half of Americans either ignore problems, part of their story, or admit their problems but refuse to find a solution.
Life seems slow and methodical until you reach your, let’s say, 40s, and then it seems the vehicle we travel on changes from a stagecoach to a car. Once we reach our 60s, that car becomes a train racing to who knows where. We try to get off and slow things down, but the danger looms, and we stay in that place, often called ‘the rat race.’
At some point, we realize we need to be rescued. For some, it is sooner rather than later, but the process is the same. My life seemed like a race! Go here. Go there. Do this. Do that. Say this. Say that. Being the oldest of four siblings, I was put in charge and then mocked for being bossy. And I am sure I was, bossy that is. I was telling others what to do like I was being told what to do. Almost like a robot being told what to do by others who at times seemed genuine but had their own agendas.
I want to talk about parents. Are you one? Do you have one or two or more? As a child, even as an adult child, our perspective is quite different from our parents. Maybe at one time, you wanted to be like one of your parents until you realized they were not perfect. Shocker! Your world fell apart. If we don’t recover from this reality we stay broken in places that we are meant to be whole.
My parents, Mack and Helen Morgan had their own issues. How was I to know? As the firstborn, after two miscarriages, expectations reigned as I grew and my siblings were born. Years later I found out they wanted a boy. So what did I do? I worked overtime to please both parents, especially my father. I remember the first time I heard my father use profanity. You may think that is funny, but it rocked my world. Something began to happen.
When we try to please others, even ourselves we end up becoming less of who we were intended to be and the rescue becomes greater. When our primary role model fails us and we start looking in other places. Does this resonate with you? Where have you looked? My parents took us to church until I was about 12. They stopped going but let me walk my siblings down the street to the local church. At some point, I joined the youth group.
Mom and Dad let me go to youth camp that summer. Have you ever prepared for a trip thinking one thing about it and the way it turned out was completely different? That is what happened to me. I went for the fun and found the beginning of my rescue. For that week, the race of my life slowed, a new direction presented itself and I returned home differently.
In all of my parents’ issues, of which I will share later, they let me go to camp. At camp, I received what I needed for what was coming. My parents knew. God knew. I did not know.
Be brave and tell your story to someone who needs to hear that the ending is good. Always. The race furious. The rescue real. Let’s explore how to get off this fast moving train to knowwhere and end up somewhere.
Stay with me as I tell the story of a young girl, who for decades searched the hearts of many, and entered many doors to find answers. Let’s explore what is behind each door, how it helped, how it hurt, and how we can find the answer to all our issues.
My upcoming book with the working title, The Four Doors, is dedicated to Mack and Helen Morgan, my parents, who did the best they could. I love you, Mom and Dad. I look forward to seeing you soon.
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The heart of the matter is the matter of the heart.
Dr. Michele Morgan
