Stories for when you're not where you thought you'd be
Welcome to the Wayward Fish
A place to share stories,
to gather when you feel stuck in the sand or lost in the tides.
A place for those in-between or on the edge,
the gentle laggers-behind, the ones to whom things come slowly.
A place for those who hold back from doing what they love for fear of failure,
who struggle to allow themselves permission to create.
And a place for those whose souls simply need to breathe,
away from the constant ‘shoulds’ of life…
Throw your towel at the water's edge.
Swim through the clear, guilt-washing waves.
Come and find musings on how we spend our time.
Stories for when you’re not where you thought you’d be.
Usedom Island - C O'Driscoll
I'm Clare, a self-confessed ‘career-flounderer’ and a lifelong straggler behind, I have wrestled with purpose and vocation, I have panicked about productivity and lost time, I have ached for creativity.
When life takes an unexpected turn, it’s easy to think all is lost. Not just that we are lost, but that we've lost a part of ourselves.
But, like pebble-dashed beach streams trickling and winding their way to the water’s edge, we will find our way back.
Those streams rarely run in straight lines to the sea.
They curve and twist, cutting into the sand and leaving their mark along the way.
And, in the end, they reach the place.
So come and swim through the deep waters and down the clear and twisting channels of God’s grace.
Come and find stories for when you're not where you thought you'd be; a way back to the things you love.
The things you were told were out of reach.
And in doing them, to know that none of it is wasted.
Find me on Instagram: clare_thewaywardfish
they curve and twist, leaving their mark along the way
