Stop Waiting

...for the money

for the boo...
stop waiting for the thing in your imagination to become reality before you decide to value the life that already exists in front of you.
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Life is not waiting for you.
It will pass with or without you —
— whether you’re single or not, whether the kids come or not, whether you make money or not, life will continue.
•Choose• to live it to the fullest with what you have now, where you are now, the way you are, now.
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There’s a lot of life to be lived and enjoyed if we just stop waiting for a future that may or may not happen as we have imagined 🤷🏽‍♀️

everyone is hurting

There's a man out there who feels guilty: Once, he was with his girlfriend. She was sleeping over but said she didn't want to have sex. But the making out got hot and heavy and he pushed his way through. After, she wept. He said he was sorry. He never did it again.

So he feels like he doesn't have a right to speak out against rape. "No man is without sin," he says. Guilt has silenced him.

There's a woman out there who feels disqualified: when she was little, her big brother used to touch her for fun. He’d make her watch while he got himself off. But he never raped her & she never reported. They didn't do anything wrong… right?
So even though she weeps when she hears stories of abuse, she feels like she's just trying to "feel among". Because her pain doesn't count.

There's a guy who feels ashamed. The housegirl molested him when he was younger and he developed an addiction to rape porn. He goes about like he's the baddest playa, breaking hearts up and down, but his own heart is broken & he doesn't have the courage to share his pain. So he forms, "I don't get involved with social media gist," goes home alone & doesn't understand that he’s depressed.

There's a girl who lied once. The guy had hurt her feelings, left her for another girl and she promised to show him. So she got him drunk, slept over & when they woke up she lied that he had raped her. She hates herself for doing it, but she never apologised. So now she insults every woman who shares their story because all she can hear are her own lies.

There's a man out there who saw his dad rape and beat his mum. He tried to defend her & she slapped him and told him to mind his business. So he thinks that women who say they don't like it are just pretending. His babe doesn’t complain.

There’s a woman who was raped in sec. school. Her mum told her never to speak of it. Her dad told her to be strong & move on with her life. So whenever a woman tries to speak it feels like she’s breaking the rules, so she tells her to shut up, too.
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Everyone is hurting.
Christians: the law of the land doesn’t take away our Salvation; forgiveness and justice aren’t opposites.
And if you can find the courage, speak.

Heal.