When you ask God for more, when you decide that you want an extraordinary life...brace yourself. Because, before the filling comes an emptying. Before the anointing comes a stripping away.

You will confront things you have lived your life ignoring. You will, like Jacob, wrestle the angels for your blessing. Your hip bone will shift but you will hold on...sometimes because you are too weary to let go.

But morning comes. And when it does...ah...when for the first time you see who you are becoming, who you always have been...it is a humbling experience.

I wish I had the words right now to tell you about wrestling with life to the point where you no longer care about how good you look. Where the answers you seek are more important than the pictures you are painting for a world that really, doesn't care.

But morning will come. And you will look at yourself - changed, sweaty, different...you will look at yourself and understand why it had to happen. And it will be worth it. Because glory is a weight all its own...but you will be ready.

Some of us are frightened of the person we are that no one knows. How can you be frightened of your truth? Sitting with yourself - without subterfuge, without pretty answers and clever stories... Meeting you for the first time, as you are...it can be scary

But the answers, the discovery... The lessons and the knowing - the morning of you - it makes it all worth it. I don't have the words yet, but that's OK. Been taken through fire and water, but I am finally looking at my wealthy place. Morning always comes.