normal

Do you ever wish you could simply blink and get to whatever it is you are trying to achieve?

I know I do.

If someone told me tomorrow if I followed a strict plan and in one month I would be at my health and fitness goals I would do it in a heart beat.

Lately with the projects looming around me at work I just keep wishing that I could get over the "hump" so to speak and get "there."

I want the projects to be finished, I want to the to be in sight. But somehow, I know that the end that I think I need to get to is only the beginning of something else. There are moving parts and new things will surface that need effort and attention.

Don't we do the same thing in life?

If I could only reach a certain size.

If I could only achieve a certain goal.

If I could only have a certain relationship.

Then, then I would be happy.

Then I could rest.

Then life would be as it should be.

Then I would be normal again.

I can't tell you how many times I have said in the last few months, I just want things to be normal again on my job.

I wanted to make it through time of crisis, now I want to make it through time of transition.

But here's the thing, whenever we think we have "made it through" to normal, there is always something waiting on the other side.

Let me let you in on a secret...

"There is no such thing as normal."

It doesn't exist.

Life is weird.

It will always be weird. It will constantly through us curveballs. What we do with those curveballs is what shapes our character.

Sometimes those things are massive and dramatic. Sometimes they are simple and subtle. But they cannot be avoided.

We live our lives in pursuit of destinations, but when all is said and done those destinations are just another part of the journey.

I know I want to be healthy.

Sometimes I can't see beyond that.

I want to be "normal".

Here is the thing though, I am not meant to be normal. Neither are you!

You're meant to be exceptional and in order to get there we have to keep pressing on from destination to destination until we reach the REAL goal...

Being one with Christ in His presence.

That my friends is anything but normal.

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