Hi there. Thanks for listening to the Sister Circle podcast. My name is Crystal Evanshurst,

and I'm your host. Thanks for tuning in to another episode of the podcast that's designed to help you

live your life well and to make it a life you love. Listen, you get to choose. If you ever said to yourself,

I'm actually gone enjoying my life because my life is not going the way I wanted it to go,

or you are feeling depressed, disappointed, sad, grief, stuck, frustrated with God

when things aren't happening in the timing you expected, all of those feelings, all of those thoughts

can steal your joy and it shouldn't. You can still have an experience a great life in the waiting

and joy in the journey. So let's talk a little bit about

what it looks like for you to understand how you can craft your emotional journey,

even while you are feeling like your dreams are delayed. Because your delayed dreams don't have to

mean denied joy. You know, there is this idea that if things don't have to mean denied joy.

You know, there is this idea that if things don't happen on our timeline, that we have expectations.

And it's because we have expectations that we get disappointed.

If you aim for nothing, you hit nothing.

And what will happen sometimes is people will say, well, because I don't want to be

disappointed, then I won't hope. That's the wrong thing. Without hope, you won't even look at what

you're aiming for. Without hope, you won't persevere when things are hard. Without hope,

you won't believe for the best and talk about the best as if you expect it to

happen. So you hoping is important. But the reality is if you hope, you are leaving room to be

disappointed. Okay. But you shouldn't dumb down your hope just because you don't want to be

disappointed. Let me just say that. Just because your dream hasn't come to pass yet doesn't mean it won't

come. It doesn't mean it won't come. It's probably not going to come in your time. So your focus in

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