Ever feel like you are just spinning your wheels? Burning daylight? Wasting your life? Me too.
This fall included several times where I felt like I was stuck on pause. I felt as if what I had been doing with my life was not yielding any results. The feedback loop on what I was doing was either too wide or broken. I struggled with depression, motivation, focus.
It’s funny. At the end of the year, I entered a very different season. Within two weeks, I had five to seven experiences where I realized the invaluable role God was allowing me to play in the lives of other people. Old friends, new friends. People in Phoenix, people in Texas. Places where I had been laboring for a LONG TIME. With people I hadn’t had a serious conversation with in weeks. People owning up to things that had been unspoken for months.
Relationships offer us a guaranteed return on investment.
Now, that return may be brokenness and pain if things go bad or a dissolution that sends us in different directions permanently. And I realized my experience was the idealistic type where it was all possible rate of return. I know the other side of the fence because that’s where I lived all fall – watching friends marriages fall apart, onetime friends go separate ways, transparent sharing result in someone not listening and not being open to change.
However, as we move into the 10′s, I implore you – keep your heart open to people. You will be hurt and disappointed, and you will enter seasons where you feel that you are stuck on pause, spinning your wheels. Leave room for God to come in and surprise you. In those moments, you will realize every relationship that you trust to God offers a guaranteed return on investment. Our surrender enables the impossible to become possible.
