What Happens When You Put Your Foot on the Gas, Without Letting Up?

What if I fall? But oh darling, what happens if you fly?

What happens when you push yourself beyond your limits. 

Chapter Harmony preaches about the power in being still, the power in slowing down. Black women deserving rest in high favor. But hear me out, what if there’s also power in putting your foot on the gas, and not letting up. Just to see what happens *lifts hands* just to see! 

When I think about being paid in high favor, or loved in high favor, in most cases it asks for us to step in a little discomfort at first. 

Life is just constant seasons and cycles, right? Think of winter, as our time to rest, and spring, as our season of new ideas and fresh vision. It reminds me of the woman’s menstrual cycle, with our ovulation phase like summer and the luteal phase like Autumn. Same for the moon. The new moon, the waxing moon, the full moon, and on and on.

Everything around us is constantly evolving and transforming and becoming.

Chapter Harmony’s vision was to encourage Black women, specifically, to get everything they deserve, including rest, because for so long we simply weren’t at all. We’re often forced to be on the go, to be under pressure, to be in ‘hustle mode.’ It is simply our state of survival. And most times it’s our own self that's putting this amount of pressure on our backs. It’s all we’ve known. But we do deserve rest in high favor. We do deserve to take a second to breathe, deeply. We do deserve to take that day off, to allow ourselves time to think of what we want to do next or even celebrate ourselves for completing that one thing before simply moving on to the next. We deserve rest. We deserve slowness. 

In that blessed season of rest when you have a moment to think about what it is you want, you have a moment to do, and to be, and to decide what feels good for you. You have a moment to ask, ‘What am I seeking?’ ‘What am I curious about?’ And oh baby, the things that come from us giving our minds and our bodies the rest it needs.

Sometimes God places an assignment on our hearts, and we’re either not sure what to do with it, or we’re still waiting on that next piece of clarity. Okay, yes God, now what? We want the GPS to navigate us, left turn, right turn, to our final destination. How do I do it, God? 

But just like you heard the vision loud and clear, you know your next move. Right? 

Is it imposter syndrome that’s stopping you from going full force? Is it beliefs about yourself that's in the way? Are you scared of leaving this new found pleasure of slowness and stillness? Are you afraid pressure is on the other side of saying yes to God? 

Think about it, God led you to rest, God gave you an assignment, and now you’re fearful ‘saying yes’ will become too stressful? It’ll be too much? Too hard? Too fast? After all we’ve learned? Because remember there was a moment when we felt resting was too hard and we couldn’t slow down as well.

What if there’s more pleasure on the other side? What if there’s a world that exists where there’s balance throughout? What if it doesn’t have to be either/or? 

What would that look like? 

It looks like me executing this assignment that has been on my mind, on my heart, in almost every thought. It would look like me following through because I know I can do it. It would look like me showing up for myself in ways that I have shown that I can show up for myself before. I have pushed myself to new limits and new heights time and time again. This wouldn’t be different. This would just be another chapter in my book of things that I am proud of. This would be another opportunity to allow God to use me. This would not be hard. 

But then that voice would say, ‘But this is hard’. Sure it just might be hard, but I can do hard things. Everything that I thought was once too hard, or too much, I’ve shown that I am able. I am capable. I have been assigned this mountain to prove it can be moved. I am not going to burn myself out or become overwhelmed. Instead, I will use this as an opportunity to create more balance. To create more space for myself. 

I am not going to allow myself to get frustrated when I don’t know what to do next. I may get to a point where I am unsure, but I have so many tools. There is so much power in being seen. In being seen trying. There is so much power in asking for help and in learning and in researching what to do next. My community is continuously expanding. Life is continuously finding ways to help me and make space for me and my dreams and my goals. 

This vision was placed on my heart because there is a future version of myself that has it. My future self NEEDS my current self to do this. She needs me to say yes, right now. She needs me to put my foot on the gas and not let up. She needs me to push beyond what I think I can do. Something deep down knows there is something so incredibly beautiful waiting for me on the other side. 

After all, we’re just seeing, right? Right. 

So go ahead. I can’t wait to hear all about what was on the other side, my love.

Xo, 

Ry

Affirmations to hold close: 

I believe I have been assigned this mountain to prove it can be moved. 

God has entrusted me with this vision, and I trust myself to fulfill it.

I can do hard things. I’ve done them before, and I can do them again.
My dreams are worthy of my energy, my heart, and my time.
I create space for new ideas by honoring my moments of stillness.

Even when I feel unsure, I am always being guided toward clarity and purpose.
My future self is cheering me on; I step forward with faith.

Every chapter of my journey is part of a beautiful becoming.