Take a breath. You are not as late as you think you are. I know it feels like everyone else is getting there before you. Like opportunities are slipping away, doors are closing, and somehow you’re falling behind a timeline you never meant to race against in the first place.
What is meant for you will never miss you.
What is yours is not fragile. It doesn’t disappear if you take a wrong turn.
– Jacqueline Whitney
You’ve been so afraid you’re going to miss it. The right person. The right opportunity. The right timing. You’ve been trying to engineer the perfect circumstances, position yourself in exactly the right place, do everything correctly so nothing gets accidentally lost in the shuffle of your life.
But what is meant for you doesn’t operate on luck.
The right love will recognize you even on the days you can’t recognize yourself. The right opportunity will find you when you’re not even looking for it. The right people will move toward you the same way you’ve been quietly moving toward them, even when you didn’t know you were.
What is yours is not fragile. It doesn’t disappear if you take a wrong turn.
It doesn’t get reassigned if you spend a season healing. It doesn’t expire because you took longer than someone else to get here.
Stop gripping so tightly. Stop being afraid of missing what was always going to find you. The thing you’ve been believing for has your name on
It always did.
Jacqueline Whitney is the author Held: A 50 Day Devotional For Parents and All That You Deserve.
