One Step at a Time

map-blind... but we know its go-time

The world isn’t good at living in the messy middle.

If Fixer Upper were a show that only shared the run-down house and neglected to show the finished product - I bet a lot less people would watch.

If college ads only showed late nights of homework after double shifts to cover school loans and skipped the images of grads smiling at dream jobs - nobody would enroll.

If a gym actually showed how much time, pain and sweat goes into lasting change and hid the expected results of healthy living - I don’t think that gym would ever sell another membership.

As a society, we’d often rather skip over the hard work it takes to achieve big dreams, build strength, increase our faith or deepen our most important relationships. We opt instead for cheap versions of the real thing.

We want prayers answered hours after they are uttered; quiet and safe lives that don’t require big leaps of faith. And we often want God’s WHOLE PLAN before we’ll agree to follow Him another step…

But… What if there’s another way?

What if we got comfortable doing hard things to achieve results that matter most?

What if we learned to live well in the messy middle before we can clearly see the end?

How much more joy would we have if we loved the journey and not just the final result?

I’ve been contemplating this a lot lately because our family has had to make camp in a “messy middle” for a long while… on a seemingly endless journey with steps labeled “Soon”, “Not here”, and “Not yet.”

For context’s sake, a little backstory…