Oh, hey. Yeah, I haven’t written in a while, but I’m trying to change that. God has been stirring my heart lately to write more so hopefully this will be the first of many blogs to come (hopefully). Thanks for continuing to follow me on my crazy journeys and interesting thoughts. Speaking of interesting thoughts, have you ever had one of those moments where you literally forget what you were doing and went into a totally different place in your mind? And not just any place, this is a specific place. One that has hopes and dreams and questions and lots of crazy incomplete musings. I hope I’m not the only one. When I go to this place in my mind, I affectionately call these times “shower moments” because they happen to me a lot in the shower.
Here’s a typical example:
- I get in the shower thinking about something random (my life in a nutshell)
- Probably stand there for 5 minutes before I remember I am actually supposed to be showering
- At some point I wash my hair once (sometimes twice because I’ll start thinking about something else, a few times it’s been three times…yeah)
- Once I have made it past hair, I always remember to wash my face (my dad always taught me to wash from top to bottom so I wouldn’t forget anything…it’s the only thing that keeps me focused in the shower!)
- Somewhere in between face wash and body wash, I’m in my thoughts again
- Somehow I get back on task because I start thinking about what I have to do
- I eventually remember that I’ve spent too much time in the shower and finally get out
Yeah, that’s pretty much it. I had a point too…and here it is: I want to have more shower moments in my life. Just follow me for a second. Far too often I shut this part of my mind down because it’s not seen as “productive” or “beneficial” by our cultural standards. It doesn’t accomplish anything, and a lot of time it can distract me from the task at hand. But when is the right time to let my mind go to this place and run free? If I was never in a position to relax and wasn’t able to go to that place, I would probably lose it.
I love that God has given me a creative mind (He’s given YOU one too) and that it is constantly filled with things that only He could have put there. Think I’m crazy? Maybe, but I’m willing to be crazy to chase a dream He’s given me or a question He’s laid specifically on my heart.
The Lord has been teaching me how to relax and how to free a lot of the clutter that is clouding my mind to make room for those dreams and thoughts. I’m coming to find that the more time I spending asking those questions or really pressing into my dreams or just thinking, He really becomes more tangible in my relationship. The more I speak LIFE into what He has given me, the more He is alive in me.
Quite honestly, I’m not sure if any of this has made sense. I hope it has, but if not, that’s okay too. I’m on a journey to discover more about me and what makes me tick, and hopefully in the process, my meandering through the jungle of thoughts that is my mind will bring you to a place of understanding who you are more or at least to a place of starting to ask questions (I hope that run-on sentence didn’t freak any of you grammar people out). So my encouragement to me and you is to ask God to give us space to dream and think and explore. I think this quote by Mark Twain really sums it up:
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream.”
Here’s to more shower moments!
