I realized the other day that I have a hard time keeping up with life. Everyone and everything just fly forward at neck-breaking speed. I spend my days trying to keep up with life, and it just so happens that I have the personality that shuts down when there is too much to do. I struggle with keeping up with my house and making sure that we make it to church every Sunday.
As I was thinking about what I should do today, I remembered this blog. I looked up the URL and saw that I haven't written here for over a year. This just goes to show how much I let slip through the cracks because I'm too busy trying to keep up with life.
Perhaps, instead of trying to keep with life, I should try to lead it. This may sound silly to a lot of people. I mean, come on, leading your life is what this culture is all about right? We constantly see magazine articles for women to "take control" or lead the pack in their social lives. Start new, be the one that everyone else looks up to. Turns out, very few of us follow this advice. Most of us pull into our personalized turtle shells and allow the world to change around us, while we simply follow along and try to keep hidden among the look-alikes.
How great can this advice be if no one really follows it? Maybe it's time to stop trying to lead everyone else, and start leading our own lives. Minding our own business so to speak. Maybe the real way to succeed in life is to stop trying to follow all of this so-called advice around us. Maybe Paul put it best when he said:
"Don't copy the behavior and customs of this world, but let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think. Then you will learn to know God's will for you, which is good and pleasing and perfect." (Romans 12:2 NLT)
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