Rather than hiding at home, disguising the hurt as bravery, we have to choose to actually do the raw, hard, vulnerable thing and travel outside our comfort zone. We have to choose to blow right past that orange and white barricade that reads, “Travel at Your Own Risk.”
I Write to
I write to empower another voice to speak, to be the helping hand to others laying face down in the arena of life, to help lead someone bravely past the “Travel At Your Own Risk” sign, even if there is pain on the other side.
I write to encourage you to do what sets your heart on fire, and all the hard things it will take to follow through with it. I write because hitting “post” on the vulnerable places of my heart is a hard thing to do. I write because we have a commitment to our children to do hard things. And ultimately I write because the Truth found in doing hard things sets us free.
~Karli
I feel a bit like a fraud right now.
I say on this website: "I write because hitting “post” on the vulnerable places of my heart is a hard thing to do. I write because we have a commitment to our children to do hard things…”
But the reality is that when I’m weary, face-down tired and confused, I don’t hit post on anything. There are hurdles that my pride just can’t seem to get over...
There are literally millions of good things to say yes to in this world. Righteous causes, hurting people, mouths to feed. But when we say yes to too many of them, we get so busy in the doing we forget to embrace all that is right in front of us. We often forget who we are called to be and how we got started in the first place
Picking up the pieces of my disheveled heart and staggering to the finish line of following through, last September was a month where I still felt like I was treading water deep at sea. I could breathe again and no longer felt like I was below the surface of life struggling for air but I was still treading in deep, dark waters. Afloat, but still feeling stranded between my yeses and nos.
Cultivating community through the hard things in life, inspiring courage, pursuing what sets souls on fire. We’re traveling at our own risk.
- Brené Brown
