Life in My Lane
In my last blog post, I touched on the importance of operating from my niche, basically my purpose. I have said this a lot but the noise is super loud on social media these days, more than usual, therefore it is important to do a soundcheck. It is okay to be a slight skeptic of the information that comes through social media or any other medium. I have crowned myself the google queen. I never take things at face value. I often take on my own research to make sure that the information is valid. I love learning so I will admit I find myself falling down the rabbit hole on some random subject a lot of the time. But I digress, what I really want you to get from this is that it is very important to think for yourself. Even if you agree with the information or the thoughts given you ultimately determine your response.
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I will also admit this, I have always been slightly averse to following the crowd. I have for most of my life never liked being forced into a point of view. That is why I wholeheartedly take responsibility for my actions because I surely made the decision myself. I will rebel if I think in the slightest I am being manipulated into something. So I already have an aversion for just going along with things if I haven’t thought it through for myself. So I understand that this way of being is sort of innate for me. So it can be easier said than done. It takes a lot more effort to question what has been presented but it is important that we find our own voice so we can live out our full potential from that place.
This reminds me of my relationship with God. My relationship with Him could never thrive if I did not personally make a decision to know Him for myself. I was raised in the church and it would have been easy for me to settle into sort of this outward show of Christianity because that is how I was raised. But I wanted to know more, I wanted to be able to make a real decision for myself. And I did and it has been the best decision of my life.
It is super easy these days to fall into groupthink, but the way things really change is that we move within our gifts and skillsets. We are all uniquely made for this time, there is a reason we are alive right now. Don’t allow the noise to make that decision for you. I would hate for something to be left undone because we are living in a lane that is not our own. One of the great things that I have learned from my identity in Christ is that He sees me for exactly who I am and I live from that space. I implore for you to first understand who you are and then move through life from that place. My hope is that we leave nothing wanting because we have done exactly what we were put here to do.
With Love,
Cree
Photos & Editing: Lucretia Scruggs
