Recently I was in a situation that wasn’t what I wanted, but there wasn’t anything I could do to change it.
Usually I’m the type of person who takes action to change things when I want an outcome, so this presented me with a challenge.
Instead of staying stagnant I stopped asking myself, “How can I change this?”, and started asking myself, “Where’s the grace in this?”
Ask a better question and you get a better answer.
As soon as I started asking the better question I was able to see exactly how this situation was serving me, how I needed to learn to be in the present and not in the future, how I needed to learn to let go of a complete attachment to the outcome.
And I was able to find peace and to grow.
Because I saw the grace in it.
One of the greatest lies we tell ourselves is that we’re falling behind. That someone else is ahead.
As a young man I associated strength with force; louder voices, sharper opinions, firm lines in the sand.
There’s a strange kind of pride we’ve developed in being exhausted. But even lions, the king of the jungle, rest.
I can't remember a time in my life when I didn't have ambition.
We sometimes believe strength means self-sufficiency — that being independent means being isolated.
We often try to outrun the storm, emotionally, physically, spiritually.
We’re entering an age where machines do our thinking before we’ve even had a chance to try.
In church the other day, the pastor gave a sermon that really stuck with me. He talked about two people.