Josephine has been trapped inside a sand timer all her life. The timer draws her in as the sand flows from one bulb to the next, and she has trouble pushing her way up. Whenever she thinks she finds her way upstream, she falls all of Joesphine’s dreams, down all of Joesphine’s hopes, and up all of Joesphine’s fears.

Josephine’s fears were of herself. Would she succeed in life or fail? Would her disability be the champion within her? Or would it become her demise as she moved forward in life? 

Again, the sand timer is pushing Josephine even deeper. She is not even trying to find a way out. Josephine knows that she will get pushed back down deeper if she tries. She is tired of being defeated by the sand timer. 

To Josephine, time is the one thing that holds her back, but is it truly time holding her back, or is what’s in her holding her back? 

Josephine has a physical disability that slows her down. While her disability slows her down in life, it does not stop her from getting what she needs or wants. Again, Josephine is pushing between the bulbs of the sandtimer.  She sees time as the one thing she wishes she could control. 

Josephine knew she couldn’t control her body but wanted to control something in her life. She thought she wouldn’t fall so behind in life if she could control time. Little did she know that time was not to be chased. Time had its law; it came when it wanted, not when Josephine called. 

When Josephine called or tried to outrun time, she fell deeper down the dark path and felt like she was the bulb in the sand timer. After an extended period, she realized that if she wanted to balance out the bulb of the sand timer, she would have to balance herself out.

Balancing was challenging for Josephine as she wasn’t born with physical balance. Yet she was born with mental and emotional balance. Due to the physical part, Josephine was behind in time a lot because it took too much longer to do and be a part of things in life. Ultimately, it took time for her to get on the path she needed to take or see herself on.

What Josephine learned about time and life surprised her in ways she didn’t even know existed. She realized it wasn’t time that was holding her back; it was herself holding herself back. The one thing Josephine needed to balance out the bubble in the sand timer was acceptance within herself.