Becoming and Overcomer

It's interesting how often times we are meant to do something. How we are meant to turn our mess into a message. Our pain into a presence. The test into a testimony. I suppose that is the cosmic joke of it all. You are born with something so frightening that just rears its ugly head one day and you use it to help others.

I was born with what my Mother always called, 'An anxious spirit..."

In other words, I was a few quarters short of a dollar. That was to be my lot in life. My grandfather has a nervous soul, as does my mother, and now I do. I pray I don't pass it on to my children, but that is a conversation best left for another day.

Today, I want to tell you about me, this blog, and where we will be going from here.

Who am I?

Well, my name is Ron and I live with OCD. For those of you who don't know, that is Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. A debilitating disease that steals your life, rips out your heart, and slams your emotions into overdrive.

I am what they refer to as Pure O. That means my life, for the most part, is lived within the boundaries of my head. I think thoughts, then those thoughts have thoughts, and then those thoughts lead to fear, anxiety, pain, sickness, and more.

However, I am happy to say that after 3 years of very hard work, I have come an extremely long way. The man sitting here and typing this is not the same man that sat in a room and tried to write a few years ago. I assume it is because I am a different person and I know that I just wasn't me.

What is this blog?

It is simply a place where people can come and get a little help. Where those who suffer silently each day can get a little boost. Where positivity and peace reign. Where we celebrate happiness in all its forms and learn not just how to deal with OCD but how to thrive at life!

Where will we be going?

I will be posting once a week (sometimes more) but at the minimum I will post a positive, uplifting, and straight talking post. We will examine life, its hardships, and how to work through everything that comes our way.

The bottom line is this. You can be an overcomer. You can overcome anything that comes your way. You are equipped. Inside each and everyone of us there is a set of tools we just have to learn how to unlock, unpack, and use.

1 John 4: 4-5 (Amplified) reads:

⁴ Little children, you are of God [you belong to Him] and have [already] defeated and overcome them [the agents of the antichrist], because He Who lives in you is greater (mightier) than he who is in the world.

⁵ They proceed from the world and are of the world; therefore it is out of the world [its ^[d]whole economy morally considered] that they speak, and the world listens (pays attention) to them. 

You are an overcomer. Never give up. You can do it. Together we can do it.