Retrace Your Steps

 

Sometimes retracing your steps can bring the brightest of joys again.
Finding that pure open rawness of your heart.
And letting yourself feel that rawness.
Your hope lives there.

By finding that hope again you’re opening yourself up to the possibility of it.
To the certainty that God gives us that hope.
 It’s there, and it’s by His grace that He gives that hope to you.

I’m proof that it’s there.
I can’t tell you how many times I doubted it.
How many times I catch myself thinking maybe it isn’t there anymore.

But as soon as you go back, you stop and retrace your steps…
It’s there. He’s always there.
With open arms and grace.

This quote isn’t particularly religious or spiritual but if you read it and really think about it. Open your heart to try and understand it, I think it is.

“Retrace your steps and go back to the purest place in your heart,
where your hope lives. You’ll find your way again.”
--Everwood

I feel like that could have come straight out of God’s mouth himself.
Like the two of us are sitting down for coffee and He looks dead straight into my eyes and says, Hillary why are you questioning it? Think about this. Open your heart, feel this. It’s okay to doubt. But why are you doubting? You need to go back. Retrace your steps Hill; go back to the purest place in your heart. You know it’s there. You know I’m there. That’s where your Hope is. You knew it all along. You’ll be okay. You’ll find your way again. 
And it’ll all be okay.

Do you ever feel like that? Feel like God has been telling you something. Heard words, or a story, or saw something so magical, or beautiful that it made you stop and I mean really stop. To soak it all in. And breathe it in, realizing He sent that message for you. It’s His way of sitting down for coffee and having a conversation.

Yeah, I know it’s going to be okay.

Because I know I didn’t stumble on that quote back in my first year of college nurturing a broken heart and feeling homesick just to reread those words five years later, and once again feel how true they are.

Feel how very very true they are now.
Even more now than they were back then.
I saw the beauty in those words five years ago, but I didn’t feel those words the way I do now. But I saved them for when I would need the reminder.

God works in funny ways sometimes. I needed to have a conversation
over coffee to be reassured everything is going to be okay.
And He did that in His way.

So today, I’m grateful for a cup of coffee and that silent conversation I was craving with God. Thank you.

I’m linking up with Jess and Ashley with their, it’s the little things series. One I’m so grateful for because I get to share these words with all of you. I hope you’re able to stop and hear, or see something that reminds you just maybe,
He sent that just for you.