I got an e-mail from my best friend the other day. It really blessed me! First, I want to say how important it is to have cheerleaders in your corner. In this race we call life, sometimes you need someone to encourage you to keep the pace, keep running, and/or push a little harder. But as I digress…...(LOL)… here’s an excerpt from her e-mail: “"You preserve and you have perseverance. Some people hold on to negativity and junk but you hold on to the positive and precious. Some people start from scratch but you’d rather add to something old to make it look new by sprucing it up. I really admire that in you. Keep preserving and persevering. That really is a gift and not everyone knows this about you so it had to come from me. …I see you!”" I really never thought about it, but it’s true. I hold on to a lot of things; from jewelry to clothes to poetry from years past. Now I’m not talking about junk (I declare I am not a hoarder! LOL!) I mean things that will never go out of style or things to remind me of a certain time in my life. I learned this from my mother. When my mom found out I was pregnant, she revealed to me that she had saved my crib that she used when I was a baby. It was in perfectly good condition. Given my mother passed before my oldest was born, this meant a whole lot to me! I used it for both of my children.
If something isn’t worth preserving, it should either be destroyed or given away. To preserve also means to maintain or keep from danger and the opposite of it is to destroy. Oftentimes, we do well at preserving tangible things but fail at preserving the things we can’t see or touch. There are some things in our lives that we need to preserve, things like our hearts, love for people and things that are healthy for us, positive relationships/friendships, positive thinking, health, family traditions, fond memories of loved ones who have passed away, etc. So many of these things can be preserved and built upon to make your life more abundant. Some of us have some intangible things in our lives that need to be dusted off, shined up, and spruced up to use as building blocks for other things in your life. For instance, it use to be so painful to think about my mom. We were so close and when she passed it was one of the most painful experiences I have ever encountered. Given this, it was much easier for me to tuck her away, along with the pain, and not think about it. But one day I realized that to think of her was to think of the things she taught me, which I decided to dust off and use as one of the building blocks for this website you are reading right now. So, what I hope you get from this is, destroy or let go of the intangible negative things that are of no worth and will do you more harm than good and preserve the positive intangibles in your life and use them as building blocks to persevere and reach higher heights!
Love Y’all!
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