Be Open to Growth — No Matter Your Age, No Matter How Long It Has Been

In the last post, I told you about the conversation that changed everything for me. The unplanned afternoon in early October that became the turning point in my story. If you have not read it, I want you to go back and read it first, because what I am about to say will carry far more weight if you understand where it comes from.

But today, I want to take what happened to me and speak to you directly  because the lesson in that story is not just mine. It belongs to every woman who has ever wondered whether it is too late to grow into who she was meant to be.

I want to say this as plainly as I know how: It is not too late. It was never too late. And the moment you open yourself to growth, truly open, not just nod at the idea of it, everything begins to move.

Growth Does Not Check Your Birth Certificate

There is a lie that circulates quietly among women, especially mothers, especially women who have spent years building lives around other people. The lie says: that window of possibility is closing. You missed your moment. Growth is for the young, for the unburdened, for the woman with no responsibilities and no complicated history. Not for you. Not anymore.

I know that lie well, because I lived inside it for years.

I was not a young woman when October came. I was not at the beginning of my journey. I had already built structures, walked through systems, survived challenges that would have stopped many women in their tracks. And yet God showed up in a conversation I did not plan and said, in the way He always does, not in a shout but in a quiet, unmistakable knowing: there is more. You are not done. You were never done.

Growth does not require youth. It requires openness. And openness is a decision, not a season of life.

I want you to think about that for a moment. Openness is a decision. Not something that happens to you. Not something that arrives with the right circumstances. Not something you have to wait for until your children are grown, your finances are stable, or your schedule finally clears. Openness is something you choose, today, in the middle of the life you already have.

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What I Faced in That Season — And What Kept Me Standing

I would be doing you a disservice if I presented that October and everything that followed as a smooth and beautiful unfolding. It was not. There were temptations. Not the obvious kind you might be thinking of, but the quieter, more insidious ones that come when you begin to step into something meaningful.

There was the temptation to shrink back. To tell myself that what I experienced in that room was emotion, not direction, that I was being dramatic, getting carried away, reading too much into an afternoon. That temptation whispered every time I sat down to build, every time the work felt hard, every time I looked at how much still needed to be done.

And through all of it, every whisper, every doubt, every moment of wanting to put it all back on the shelf, one thing kept me steady. One thing kept me standing.

Communicating and connecting with God. Not just praying at Him — truly connecting. Waiting in His presence. Letting Him speak back.

He reminded me, again and again, that He is the giver of strength. That my ability to do this does not come from my talent alone, or my network, or my experience. It comes from Him. And because He is the One who placed this assignment inside me, because He is the One who breathed it back to life in that October room, He would not abandon it halfway. He does not start things He does not intend to finish.

That knowledge changed how I showed up every single day. Not perfectly. Not without fear. But with a kind of quiet confidence that was not mine to generate, it was His to provide.

What Being Open to Growth Actually Looks Like

Being open to growth is not a feeling. You will not always feel ready. You will not always feel inspired. You will not always feel equal to the thing you are building. If you wait to feel ready, you will wait forever, because readiness is rarely a feeling. It is a posture.

Being open to growth means you stop treating your current limitations as permanent conclusions. You stop allowing where you are right now to define where you are capable of going. You stop giving the ceiling that others have placed over your life the authority to determine what is possible for yours.

It means you say yes to the conversation you did not plan. You walk into the room even when you are not sure why. You pick up the pen, open the laptop, make the call, record the video, even when nothing in you feels certain. Because certainty is not a prerequisite for growth. Movement is.

It means you invest in your own development, not selfishly, not at the expense of your family or your responsibilities, but with the quiet conviction that a woman who is growing is a better mother, a better leader, a better everything to the people she loves. You cannot give what you have not developed. And you cannot develop what you refuse to invest in.

And perhaps most importantly, being open to growth means you stay in conversation with God throughout the process. Not just at the beginning when everything is exciting. Not just at the end when you need a breakthrough. But in the middle, in the slow, uneasy, ordinary middle where the real work of becoming happens.

The woman you are becoming is not waiting for the perfect season. She is being shaped right now, in the conversations, the obedience, and the quiet mornings when you choose to keep going.

A Word to the Woman Who Feels Too Late

I need to say this clearly, because I know she is reading this.

You are not too late. I know the years feel like they have moved quickly. I know you look back and see moments when you almost stepped into this and pulled back. I know there is grief in that, real, legitimate grief over time that felt wasted and opportunities that passed. You are allowed to feel that.

But feeling it is not the same as being defined by it. And your past hesitation is not a verdict on your future. It is simply context, the story of a woman who was not yet ready, who is now ready, and who has decided that ready is exactly where she will build from.

The God who brought a long time dream back to life in me in October is the same God available to you today. He has not changed. Your assignment has not expired. And the version of you that walks through the door of growth, at whatever age, in whatever season , is exactly the version He has been waiting to work with.

In the next post, I want to take this conversation even further. I want to talk to you about the scope of what is possible, because I believe that many of us have been thinking far too small. Stay with me. The next one will stretch you in the best possible way.