Within the Struggle: Unveiling the Healing Path to Abundance

The solution always lies within the problem, never outside of it.

I know that sounds simple, but it’s not. Because most of us are trained to run. Conditioned to fix it, flee from it, numb it, avoid it, curse it, pray it away. We go looking for the solution anywhere but here. We scroll, we swipe. We stay busy and hope distraction will do the work that only intention and attention can.

Healing doesn’t live in the distance. It lives in the center. In the middle of the very thing we’re evading and avoiding.

Sometimes– oftentimes, always, even??– the breakthrough doesn’t come from striving or shouting. It comes from stillness. Through honesty. Through letting your shoulders drop down to their rightful place and your jaw unclench and finally saying, “Okay God, I’m here. I’m listening. What are You showing me? What will You have me know?”

We try everything else first. To quote Solange in Cranes in the Sky:

I tried to drink it away, I tried to put one in the air, I tried to dance it away, I tried to change it with my hair. I ran my credit card bill up, thought a new dress would make it better. I tried to work it away, but that just made me even sadder. I tried to keep myself busy… I slept it away, I sexed it away, I read it away…

We pray it away. F*ck it away. Curse it away. Drink it away. Put one in the air. Dance it away. Change it with our hair. Run up the credit card thinking something new will make it better. Work it away. Stay busy. Move fast. Distract hard. We try to outpace the ache. Because if we never stop, maybe the pain won’t catch us.

Solange said it plain—and she wasn’t wrong. That’s what we do. And maybe, for a moment, it even works. Rather, it “works.” That is, of course, until it absolutely doesn’t.

Because what if the pain isn’t here to be erased, but to be examined? What if it’s not here to ruin you, but to reveal you? What if the thing you’ve been running from is the very thing you need to walk with you through—not to shame you, but to shape you?

The fear, the ache, the tightness in your chest—it’s not punishment. It’s a door. A holy invitation to go deeper, to get honest, to be made new. The abundance we’re praying for doesn’t only come after the pain. Sometimes, it’s buried inside it. Quiet. Holy. Waiting to be uncovered by grace.

When we stop running and start noticing, what once looked like ruin begins to look like revelation. That’s the moment the shift happens—not because everything around you changed, but because you did.

You’re not broken. You’re being broken open.
You’re not being punished. You’re being positioned.
You’re not stuck. You’re being still long enough to hear the instruction.

Prayer
God, I confess—I’ve tried to escape the very thing You’ve wanted to use to free me. I tried to seek the solution outside of the problem. I tried to seek the solution outside of me. I tried to pray it away, distract it away, outrun it altogether. But You’re inviting me to stay. To be still. To be honest. With myself first and You second. To trust that even in the discomfort, You are God. Even in the silence, You are speaking. You are here. And even in the mess, You are making a way.

Help me surrender the hurry. Help me continue to surrender the deep human desire of wanting to run away. Help me to face my feelings and my fears. Help me walk through the fire with You. Through the valley of the shadow of death. Help me believe that the challenges and trials and tribulations are not my enemy—they are my portal to You.

And with You, I don’t just survive it. I learn to love it. I learn to thrive in it. Still, like air, I rise from it.

And so it is. It’s already done– in Spirit and in Truth. Amen.

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If you’re walking through—or thinking of walking through—your own fire, I hope this helps you stay instead of sprint.

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