If you get my newsletter you know there’s been a heavy weight of intense drama I’ve been dealing with.
While in the trenches, I did a lot of praying, and soul-searching. I tried to not fall into a pool of self-pity and depression. But an answer arose as I fought the flu, asthma and my two-year-old, this simply was me being the protagonist in my own story.
As I student of picture book writing, I’m continuously taught you need to make your character’s bleed. You need to push the boundaries of what they’re capable of. And every action or situation needs to move them closer to the story. There is a purpose for drama. It’s placed there to pull life out your character. It actively reveals what’s truly important to them.
Similarly, I came across this passage from Melody Beattie’s infamous The Language of Letting Go:
“Listen to this truth: We are each in our present circumstances for a reason. There is a lesson, a valuable lesson, that must be learned before we can move forward.
Something important is being worked out in us, and in those around us. We may not be able to identify it today, but we can know that it is important. We can it is good…We must go through it until we learn, until we accept, until we become grateful, until we are set free.”
What is your greatest obstacle right now? Imagine if you were the main character of your own story. Why did the author put you in this particular circumstance? What is it bleeding out of you?
