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Prompt: In Between
If I do nothing, if I don’t take intentional steps towards healing while I walk through this valley then all the bad stuff wins. The pain was in vain. Make all this crap count for something.
It was Lisa-Jo’s email about the word prompt and a newsletter email I received from Jeff Goins this morning about his new book The In Between (coming out next month) that prompted this memory in-between my sips of coffee. This was the internal conversation I had with myself years ago when a decade of running and decade of wrong turns brought me to the Valley of Choices.
Do I continue doing things the same way I have always done them or do I choose to take a long, hard look at how I got here?
For some reason anytime I think about not allowing the pain to be in vain I think of that scene in Saving Private Ryan when Tom Hanks says to Matt Damon, “Earn this.” I can picture Jesus saying that to me in that valley years ago.
Let me just clarify that I know there is no way I can repay him for His grace. There is nothing I can do to repay Him for taking all of my wrong turns and nailing them to the cross with Him that day…but I can make it count for something. I can make choices that lead me towards wholeness and healing.
That’s how I feel about the in-between. It’s an opportunity to position ourselves in the right direction. We might not have any say on how long we stay there…but we do have a say on the choices we make while we’re there.
Are you in the in-between? Make it count!
yes, yes, yes, Eileen … to the choices, the opportunites, this crossroads that can send us soaring ahead!
Those crossroads can lead to some beautiful places.
So true. Our Christian walks are all about right choices and godly perspectives. Nice post:).
Yes, I think it’s easy to forget how powerful choices and perspectives can be.
This was great! Very nice perspective and really made me think!
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Blessings,
Shan
The How to Guru
Thank so much for stopping by, Shan!
So often I am looking around trying to figure out how to get myself out the whatever in between I am in, I forget ‘It’s an opportunity to position ourselves in the right direction’. I need to be still and listen for His voice to tell me when and how to move forward.