A new direction

If I were to ask you about the path that you have followed that brought you to this path I am certain that you would speak of the slippery slopes that you have had to brave to live another day. There is always a story of a narrow escape, moments of endearment and past experiences which left you scarred and possibly traumatised. Yet, irrespective the hills that have been witness the injustices of your past; the path you have once travelled beckons you to take a new direction. The problem with life is not that it has become predictable - it is that you have not discerned the need to change your direction.

Somehow the only way you will get to the place prepared for you, which has a reservation sign for you in your name, is when you understand that you can no longer continue a journey in the company of others who have not enriched your life. There are some things which have turned your life into a hoarder of memories which are stale and moldy and which screams for change and desires a life well-spent on the new. You don’t seem to understand that pitiful is not a word which should be used in the same breath as your name, because you have been created to be much more than you are right now. Nothing can be sadder than to see good potential wasted on a path which ultimately will lead you nowhere slowly.

May I suggest to you that you were not created so that you wait around for this path to be named after you? There is already a place which has your name on it, but it waits at the end of this journey, not at your mid-point. You have to move on, but you have to abandon a path where you are able to name the things you have encountered along the way. Your new direction could be the prospect of a new and exciting career, the fulfilment to bring joy to someone else by availing yourself to volunteer; it could be to meet new friends and people along a new intersection of life or to break tradition in your family by doing something never attempted by your kindred folk. You can feel the tugging; the pulling of a desire so profound that you know causes your heart wanting to explode, but the knowledge that this decision is much greater than a new haircut. The satisfaction will be greater than the known, because the experience is riddled in the unknown. And somehow while you have heard my voice speaking to you thus far, you are beginning to hear the voice of One so great, and ultimately the One who called you to be His own.