One of our greatest gifts is our ability to adapt in the midst of change.
The true fear we have in the midst of change is actually a fear of the unknown. So we tend to fight, fly, or freeze when change and an unknown future is on the horizon.
Here’s the catch: change is the horizon. Your gift and reward is your adaption through this horizon.
Merry Christmas.
They carry us.
They build new worlds.
They can oxygenate a suffocating room and they suffocate a room that breathes on hope.
They take us to new places.
They shine the way.
And, sometimes, they’re all we have.
You design and choose them and they will go wherever you send them.
And, in the end, our worlds reflect our words.
So before you say it, type it, text it, or even repeat it…think about what type of world you want to live in.
Here’s the good news, the answer to the question ‘what’s next’ is currently in you.
Have you noticed the trees recently?
The leaves are beautifully falling away right now, but where would you expect to find the next ones that are waiting to replace them?
On the inside.
Though outwardly we’re wasting away and losing our leaves, yet inwardly we’re being renewed and prepping for the next bloom.
So may you rake your leaves and be grateful for their role in this last season.
Just don’t keep trying to glue them back on.
Every day the sun comes up and literally provides a light for you to see your opportunities.
Opportunities to connect, opportunities to lead, opportunities to make your music, and opportunities to engage with the world through your humanity.
Most will choose not to look, not to engage, and not to experience the beautiful mystery revealed to the lookers every day.
Most are bored.
…the often overlooked, not public, and soft art of being human.
Except for the recipient of your humanity…
They may never tell you, but rest assured, there’s a song called You that’s buzzing in their bones.
Ashton.Gustafson 