Keep pressing on

Have you ever been in a situation that you just could not help? A time when despite your best efforts everything did not work out how you wanted it do. I have been in more times and situations like this than I really want to count or can honestly remember. Some that had big impact and some that only I noticed. Last night I ever forgot my keys and left them at my parent’s house. Andrew drove so I did not even think I took them let alone took them inside but I did both.

Life happens. It happens to all of us. How we respond to life happening is another story. There are times where I want to be ignored and sit in a corner and just cry, other times when Andrew pulls me out of my shell and says get over it or when mom or dad says, “it is what it is”, no matter how much they hate that saying. I can only do so much after something is completed and finished.

In a world where people are people and we make mistakes all the time we learn from them and we have the choice to grow from them or to let them define us. Sometimes and in some seasons. They define me more than I want them to. They impact my heart and my head and put me in a place of insecurity and doubt but knowing there is only one person who ever walked that was perfect sets my soul a little more at ease.

So here this is to my colleagues, to my friends from my doctoral program, life group and to others who are on this journey called life and we are stuck in a different but equal rut. I salute you. I salute your journey. Your trail to get here and your ability to stand even stand in a rut and to be ok with learning how to climb out on our own and with the help of others. Maybe just maybe you realize someone else is sharing your rut with you. How can you be encouragement to one another and help each other when we slip and fall? Two are better than one, and three better than two. It does not have to be a gigantic expressing of support or push but it can be as gentle as the wind reminds me that I am loved and there is something bigger out there. May you be the wind for someone else.

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