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I understand that everything in my life came to teach me something. The relationships that worked. The ones that didn’t. The opportunities I fumbled. The doors that closed in my face. The people who loved me beautifully and the people who irritated the absolute shit outta me. All teachers.

And that realization has given me a different kind of peace.

Because when I stopped asking “why did this happen to me?” and started asking “what did this come to teach me?” I don’t have to hate somebody just because their season in my life is over. I don’t have to be ashamed of a failure when it taught me something success never could. I can be disappointed and still be grateful. I can grieve it and still honor it. I can know I deserved better and still appreciate what the experience revealed about me.

Some lessons arrive wrapped in love. Some arrive disguised as disruption. Some will break your heart, humble your ego, expose your patterns and make you meet parts of yourself you’ve been avoiding. Damn, I needed to hear that, even right now writing this ya’ll. 

Because my babies, when you start seeing life as a classroom instead of a courtroom, you stop needing everything to be guilty or innocent, right or wrong, good or bad.

Sometimes it was simply the lesson. I pray we all learn it, thank it, and let it be over.

There is so much peace on the other side of no longer needing the lesson to apologize for how it taught you.

Forgive. Release. Rise. And always, #takewhatyouneed
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