“If you dig in and fight the change you’re facing, it will indeed smash you to bits. It will hold you under water, drag you across the rough sand, scare and confuse you.” -Shauna Niequist
This season of my life is characterized and defined by change. It’s challenging, uncomfortable, and as soon as I get a foothold and I understand how to use the “shower”, I leave and I lose my footing.
The world race is hard and real life is pretty much the exact same way. But I am learning that we can either resist the change or press into it. We can hope that the next season of life will be easier or we can put as much into this season that we want to get out.
If we long for what is next, we miss out on what’s right in front of us.
In this life we have a common misconception that the next season of life will be better so we decide to just survive and get to the next season as soon as possible.
I can get caught up in thinking that the next month on the race will be easier or that life won’t be as challenging once I get back to Chicago. Or we ALL believe that once we get that new job or diploma or marriage certificate, life will be sweeter and easier and everything will be fixed. But that’s just not true.
I don’t want to look back on the world race or this season or even this life and see where I allowed to be tumbled by the waves when I could have learned to swim. I don’t want to look back and see all the seasons where I wished I could be in the next one.
So I am learning that since we can’t flip our circumstances, how about we flip our perspective instead?
Instead of wishing for better days, what if we chose to believe that today is the better day. What if we lived instead of resisted, learned instead of fought, and realized that this season might be about growth and becoming and that can be just as valuable.
