If you are anything like me, you find yourself wishing you could turn your brain off at will. Thoughts are running faster than you can count them. And just as you start to feel some peace, you come crashing back to an anxious reality.
But, is that supposed to be our reality?
For most of my adult life (and teenage years) I think I would have answered “yes.”
For years, I felt doomed to be a captive of my chemically imbalanced brain. OCD and depression had ravaged my life until I was a shell of my former self. What hope was there for a kid who had tried to do life right and found himself deeper and deeper in a pit of despair?
I read a verse about the possibility of becoming stable like a “tree firmly planted by streams of water.” And I thought to myself…
“That is the furthest thing from how I would describe my life.”
A more apt description would be a twig that broke off the tree to be carried by a raging river. That was how I would describe my life.
Maybe you are in a similar boat. Boatless. Drifting wherever the currents of your mind take you. Crashing into every stone, bank or object in your way.
There is hope. There is real change. I am living proof of it.
This blog is intended to serve as an encouragement to the hopeless, a guide for the wandering, a connection for the lonely, and a beacon for those lost at sea. My hope is that you can find the peace and stability of becoming a tree firmly planted by the water.
I have.
This blog will explain how.
Free to be Funk 