I’m honored to have my article When Life Doesn’t Turn Out How You Expected published on The Kindred Voice blog. It explores the reality that life rarely turns out the way we’ve planned or pictured in our minds. But despite the disappointment that can come from this unexpected side of life, it is possible to still find grace and joy and beauty in a life that looks different than the one we once imagined. Below is an excerpt from the article:
What do we do when we wake up one day and realize that our life looks nothing like the life we had once dreamed of for ourselves? How do we keep going when disappointments sometimes leave us feeling broken? Where do we turn when losses seem so big that we feel we cannot take one more step forward?
My life today looks nothing like the life I had once pictured for myself. By 33, I expected to have a family full of children in a comfortable house on a big plot of land. I expected to either stay home and raise my babies or be working in a fulfilling job counseling and helping others to live their best lives.
But the thing about expectations is that so often they serve only to feed disappointment and frustration…keep reading!