Take A Step

After church service this weekend, I had a heart to heart talk with a friend of mine regarding the future. As with another mutual friend of ours who is turning the page in his career, my friend was telling me of his intentions to return to school to pursue a degree. The more we spoke, the clearer his vision became for his next "new thing".

I'm also looking for something new in my life. Whether it's the beginning of something else in my career, or breathing life into my current daily routine, it's important to do something. Anything to escape the "rut". (It was once said that "a rut is simply a grave with the ends kicked out".)

Positive change begins with a single step.

Romans 12:2 (The Message)

Place Your Life Before God

1-2 So here's what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life—your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life—and place it before God as an offering. Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for him. Don't become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking. Instead, fix your attention on God. You'll be changed from the inside out. Readily recognize what he wants from you, and quickly respond to it. Unlike the culture around you, always dragging you down to its level of immaturity, God brings the best out of you, develops well-formed maturity in you.

What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. -C. S. Lewis

When you feel that you have reached the end and that you cannot go one step further, when life seems to be drained of all purpose: what a wonderful opportunity to start all over again, to turn over a new page. -Eileen Caddy

Good Night