Move forward on the path

I was reminded recently of a revelation I had a few years back.

Driving home one day I saw a couple on a tandem bike, and as I sat at the light watching them it hit me…

The only person that can see and control where they are going is the person in the front. The person leading. The person in the back is really just there to help balance and steer and make sure they don't fall over.

It was so simple, but it was so heavy for me because she had to trust that he was leading her in the right direction. That he was taking her down the right path and just be support on that journey, and I was like damn.

We move through so many phases and stages of life. We are led to change in relationships, on our jobs, in our faith or spiritual practices, or within our family, and we struggle, resist, and fight against them. We fight against and resist each other. Regardless of circumstance or context. Because we are taught, told, and through certain experiences shown that we must be strong and we must be independent. Especially as women, and even more so as black women. Because We don't need NOBODY, but that's not true, and it's actually a trauma response that has been past down from generation to generation and therefore we convince ourselves that it's ok. That we are, but...

Whatever path you're on...

Wherever the journey leads or takes you...

Submit to that.

Surrender to it.

Relinquish the need to control the journey and trust that you are being led in the right direction.

Trust yourself.

Trust your heart.

Be free.

And…

Move forward on the path.

Love