You are Right Where You are Meant to Be

It is tiring, right? Always striving, reaching for the next thing, that one thing you are meant to do. To become the one you are meant to be.

It is hard. When you are tired. When you are not sure what to do. What to do next? Sometimes, we get so focused on the next thing that we miss out on the now. On the rich things happening now, the lessons being taught now. We miss the gems we are to collect now and we move to the next, with an empty basket. We are too quick to move, too limited to appreciate what we have before us before it becomes ‘had’. Pace, pace yourself and slow down. What is meant for your good will be given to you. There is no need for us to be chasing the next thing, presented to us as the ‘best thing’. I need to stop and look carefully at what is around me. What I can take care of now, what I can do now and do that. There is no need to reach beyond what is in front of me. First I have to address the present in order to successfully greet the future.

Forget perfection, it is not achievable. What can happen is that we devalue our efforts, the efforts of others and God’s awesome efforts on our behalf, because we are waiting for perfection. There is no perfect life. Yes, it is hard to admit and even harder to live this imperfect life but it is the truth. A truth I do not like is that death is sure. What we need to do before we get there is to embrace life with all its imperfections and just give ourselves the grace to live it.

So, we push through and beyond the stones we encounter in the now, before we move on. We do not need to turn back and seek another path. Really we can never go back, so why try? We push through and we take note of our strengths and weaknesses. We learn about our idiosyncracies and we push to thrive, no matter the harsh conditions. We do not stop. We may pause, cry out our fears, and wonder what we are doing here, but we never stop. We may slow down because it’s what we have to do. We may even pause for a good long while because the lesson module is so large, but we will eventually move again when the time is right. The only constant is change. therefore, we can see little changes in the little things taking place around us now. Sometimes even those little things become big things. But, we never stop, we are never stuck, and we are getting to where we are getting in a time that matches our ability at that time.

So, while it may be tempting for us to abort the boat in the middle of a storm and hop on a passing ship that seems destined for greater things, let us pause and think. How did we get here? Where were we told to go? Is that ship headed for our promised land or an iceberg? Sometimes we are meant to be in the boat, going at a steady pace, being led, because what is ahead for us is still in preparation mode and God needs time to set it up right for us. Just remember in the now you are in, you are where you are meant to be.