You Deserve The Goodness Coming Your Way

I was talking to my friend and he made a comment about how much he was looking forward to a trip he was going on, 3 days of fishing with his father. This friend has been going through a lot recently - a messy divorce, financial hardship, and losing a sense of purpose. This trip was meant to do a lot for his soul and healing.

While on his trip I sent a message to him saying “You deserve the goodness and peace coming your way”. Embedded in the message were so many implications, I really liked the way it came off, and I wanted to share the details around that for you. Because if you’re going through some challenging times and need a perspective shift, this might do it.

Let me break it down in reverse order:

What’s “coming your way” has two meanings. It’s both future-facing in that it’s yet to arrive, but you can expect that it will. This inspires hope. It also could be true in the present where what’s coming your way has been coming your way. You’ve been actively receiving it. This means things are “coming your way” today and tomorrow.

Then, there’s the “goodness and peace”. In the crazy and busy world we live in today, we all want more goodness and peace. Goodness involves all the good things in life: quality health, great relationships, more presence and connection, more financial abundance and freedom to be the person you want to be. And peace gives you the satisfaction that you’re right where you’re supposed to be, not strained or overstretched, but filling the role in the world you were meant to without it feeling too demanding. Who doesn’t want goodness and peace coming their way?

And then there’s the beginning: “You deserve”. Especially as it relates to personal hardship, it often comes as the byproduct of our own mistakes, errors, or lapses in judgment. There are certainly things out of our control, but when our life gets harder and we know it’s our own doing, we can feel shame and guilt about it, and reason that we deserve the challenging things happening to us. That’s why framing it this way is so powerful. It takes the responsibility you associate with getting what you deserve but applies it to phenomenal and uplifting things. It reminds you that you are responsible for the blessings in your life.

So let’s put it all together again: “You deserve the goodness and peace coming your way”. 

I’m saying to you. Whatever you’re being too hard on yourself about, struggling with, or anxious about… You deserve the goodness and peace coming your way. 

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