✨ If you want beauty in exchange for ashes, you’re going to have to give up the ashes.
✨ If you want peace that surpasses understanding, you have to give up your right to understand.
✨ If you want to be forgiven, you’ll need to extend forgiveness to others.
✨ If you want patience, you’re going to walk through situations that require it.
✨ If you want to live in freedom, you’re going to have to untangle from things that are keeping you bound.
✨ If you want new, you have to let go of old.
You have to be willing to exchange what’s not working for something that is, or you’ll hold onto things that are broken and ill-fitting.
If you were to go to a store to make an exchange, you’d give back the item you no longer want to exchange it for the item you do want. You don’t get to keep both – that’s not an exchange. If you keep both items, that’s (potentially) greed, or usually, at best, it’s unnecessary.
If you want something different, be willing to give up the familiar “same old, same old” you’re used to.
If you want things to change, you have to change.
If you want to exchange, then be prepared to hand over the item (i.e. belief, mindset, pattern, habit….) that you no longer want so you have room to welcome in the better option!
