The Fall

Do you remember where you were 14 years ago? I do- to the minute ...the square of carpet I was standing on to the click of my boots on the hard aisle as I went to the TV.  My heart still aches. 
Just like thousands and thousands of others we won't forget that moment when America fell.

When my heart hurts or people around me are hurting I fly into beast mode. I want to DO! Love in action. Answer the CALL.  I try and figure out how to make the hurt stop.

Ask any of my village and they will tell you I always ask "whats next?"

 But what I am learning in this journey is that maybe we don't need to always rush to action after a fall...

Which brings me to this amazing bad ass author Brene Brown whose book Rising Strong I am reading right now. Or I should say listening to... I'm totally phoning this one in and opted for a book being read to me by none other than the author herself. 

I'm only in chapter 9. I have like 82 left. But on the eve of 9/11 there is so much of that book that translates and makes me say yep. I got it. I get it. Good!!!!

In our life we have all these things that happen- crappy things. Not so good things and then there are amazing things right? They look different to everyone but they all give you the good bumps and make you say "ahhhhh".

But as we rise and fall and fall and rise things at least for me get a little clearer.

Hear me out: 

1. Blue skies and green lights are awesome. But they don't happen all the time. So we have to hit a few red lights and get caught in the rain without an umbrella to appreciate those sunny skies. 

2. We all want the quick fix and the hero stories, but isn't the real winning in that beautiful, hard, struggle where we are battling to get back up? Let's hear about that. 

3. Life isn't perfect. It's not easy and it's is certainly not fair when we are face down after a 50 story fall. But. There is a but - if you are brave enough to embrace the fall and rise again -that is where that sweet beauty is. 

14 years after the United States fell flat on its face and the wind was taken out of our lungs we are still getting back up. New struggles knock us down. The survivors and heroes of 9/11 are still showing up. A new memorial has risen. It personifies the rise and fall of this moment in history that no one will forget.

Thank you 9/11 and all those people that lost heir lives and their loved ones. The children of 9/11 that won't know their parents and the Heroes that sifted through ashes to give a family peace. 

On that heartbreaking day lives were changed forever.

So if you fall, come on you are human. You will fall. 

Embrace the fall

Pace yourself 

Adapt and overcome. 

This happens 15 times a day for me; and that's on a good day!!!  I fall. A lot.  

So take a deep breath. And never forget what that fall felt like.  The rise will be so much sweeter if we remember it with humility and unabandoned truth.