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Injury can, many times, cause the need for a medical device that will support us in our rehabilitation.  In the beginning, our cane is indispensable, reducing much of the potential for further injury and pain to occur.  While holding onto your cane is often necessary while in the healing process, failure to release reliance on your temporary support can greatly delay the needed recovery.  Following adequate time of restoration begin the attempts to walk independently when in comfortable circumstances. When the time comes to fully release dependency on that temporary support, we must let go and bring our vision to reality.  Letting go may be unpleasant, frustrating and even painful at times, but failure to relinquish your temporary source of support will hinder ultimate recovery.

 

Letting go of your cane is often among the most difficult challenges in overcoming the defeat that has been given to you.  We all have a cane.  Some of us may have a physical medical device used to supply the needed support when on our feet.  Others of us have one or more sources on which we have become reliant to maneuver throughout our lives.  Any device that is meant to provide temporary strength and comfort through our struggles is the cane in reference.  Much of our dependency derives from the copious assistance that was provided from that cane during our strengthening process, but refusal to release our reliance will often result in the inability to complete the race we are meant to win.

 

Many canes can be damaging to our health and may cause danger to those around us.  Support from drugs, alcohol and abusive relationships are some of the first substances that come to mind.  There are a countless number of programs and groups that specialize in helping people break free from those elements of destruction.  But go beyond that with me.  The canes of which I speak are oftentimes positive attributes we are encouraged to obtain.

 

We are often encouraged to request counsel or supposed-wise advice from others when seeking direction and the desired support that will help us survive the storms of our lives.  The words spoken can be extremely beneficial when what is expressed is intended to build you up and help you advance.  Many times however, that advice tends to cause more DE-struction than CON-struction.  Being given proclamations of defeat, reminded of your inabilities to succeed, having your dreams demolished by constant negative assumptions and negative perspectives helps create low self-esteem and feelings of inferiority, restraining the development of the life you are destined to live.

 

Positive and truly wise counsel may be readily available to some of us. Intertwined with that wisdom however, you are reminded of the need to “face reality”.  Reality, to many of us, involves admitting our inadequacies and the reasons we should abandon the pursuit of fulfilling our dreams.   Fear seeps in and worry becomes our director, instructing us to cease our strenuous efforts, give up, attempting to convince us that we will never become the person needed to complete what we attempt.  Our passion for victory dwindles.  Overcoming tragedy now appears only as a story you would read about or watch.  Losing motivation to achieve victory causes self-worth to diminish and a loss of courage.

 

Searching for a satisfactory source of inspiration becomes a continuous endeavor.  You then conclude the ultimate source of support to be contained within yourself.  With faith in yourself, it appears as though failure is an impossibility.  Your life seems to be reaching the desired conclusion.  Until everything begins to go wrong, causing self-confidence to slowly disappear and the search for adequate support revives.  Time passes and the needed strength for which we seek is nowhere to be found, causing loneliness to emerge, lessening the ambition to obtain triumph.  The instability of self-reliance becomes evident.  Consistent belief in self is inaccessible without adequate self-knowledge.  Empty, in need of discovering who you are and what your purpose is.  To thoroughly overcome your prognosis of defeat, you must identify who you truly are and remain determined to conquer your impossibilities.

     A plan must be created.  Planning, setting goals is important.  However, never loosening our grip on this perceptual cane can hinder our advance toward accomplishment.  A systematic approach is an essential attribute to possess.  Failure to loosen your grip on your invariable agenda, however, is likely to result in keeping us stuck in a state of defeat, awaiting the ideal opportunity to arrive before deciding to take the first step needed in our healing process.  Free yourself of the inflexible agenda and begin to walk boldly in pursuit of your purpose.

 

Retaining the confidence essential to obtain the desired results can exhaust you and diminish your ambition to prevail, causing a struggle between the defeated you and your victorious self.  Climbing mountains causes considerable fatigue.  From the beginning, the road will be challenging.  Though there seems to be no end to your tests, keep breathing.  Holding your breath until the complications disappear will induce suffocation.  Comfort is not promised in life.  When determined to reclaim life, there will always be struggle.  The sun may set, but it is sure to rise.  Be strong, don’t give up.  Remind yourself that there is reason for your being.  Until that purpose is fulfilled, you must maintain the determination to defy every hinderance on the road to wholeness.  Everything will never be perfect.  Convenience does not exist in the pursuit of wholeness.

 

Whether it be what is spoken by others (good or bad), your view of reality, an overabundance of self-sufficiency, unwavering punctuality, always expecting comfort and ease in life or whatever temporary system of support upon which you depend, that cane must be released.  

 

Let go of your cane and step out to walk in your purpose in life.

© DAVID DAVIDSON