If your future self could send you one sentence, what do you hope it would say?
“You’ll get here, just hold on.”
To a place of surrender, peace, less stress, and more joy. Better direction. More writing. More books. Much more bravery and adventure.
A life of simplicity, fruitfulness, and purpose.
A life that is full.
I’ve been wanting to do a movie night in the backyard for awhile. And I finally got the chance.
After getting everything I needed, I spent a couple of days getting the backyard together making sure it looked nice and we wouldn’t have to deal with too many bugs, specifically mosquitoes.
But the night of, things didn’t go exactly as planned—we had a few hiccups along the way. It took me more than a hour to set up. Additionally, the cords situation had me out there like I was solving a much more complex math problem. And after all that work I did to make sure we didnt have to deal with the mosquitoes, they unfortunately decided to join us for movie night. But that is okay. We ended up having a good time anyway.
Check out the short video below to see some of the set up and good time we had.
Are you seeking security or adventure?
I am seeking continual healing. As I mentioned before, healing is a process and an ongoing journey. And healing isn’t just for your body, but for your mind, your heart, your spirit, your finances, and your relationships. And I want healing to permeate every area of my life.
Healing is crucial to have a clear mind, light heart, and a different outlook that allows you to respond from a healed place, not from a place of pain, projection, or fear.
And I am seeking security. When you are healed or continually healing, you feel more secure. Security or feeling secure pertains to feeling safe and having certainty, soundness, and stability.
Like many women, and due to my own trauma, I want to feel secure. But to be honest, I will assume that all human beings, male or female, want to feel safe and sound. I want to feel safe and not just physically. I want to feel safe to be myself and express my heart. I want a stable future. I’m not aiming to always be in survival mode but in thriving mode.
“I am seeking security and healing… and adventure will follow. Life is an unfolding adventure, and I choose to walk it whole.”
– Tannika Nikeya
And so I am seeking security and healing. And I am taking the necessary steps for such. Acknowledge pain, sin, and fears. Seeking counsel and taking accountability. Setting boundaries and learning to enforce them. Doing the work to create the life God and I approve of. Healing my finances and allowing God to also heal my heart. I’m getting my affairs in order as the saying goes. This is all healing homework.
And with the healing journey and our preparations for the future and making things right in the present comes adventure. Adventure will tag along through every lesson, blessing, ups and downs, storms, setbacks, revelations, memories, and moments. Life is one big adventure, and I pray grace for us to all to trust God, grow, heal, learn to pivot and persevere, and live life to the fullest.
Tannika Nikeya 