perspective and forgiveness

Getting short-term priorities and long-term goals to line up is a whip.

• We want to get in shape, but we need a caffeine fix… which is accompanied by mass amounts of sugar.
• We want strong relationships with God, but we’re too busy to pray or read Scripture regularly.
• We want to be pure, but it’s a quick look and no one will every know.

Any action items on a topic like this would be redundant. I don’t know about you, but one of my problems as I set priorities in the present is that I want to travel down the road and disregard the detours. But how much farther would I be if I weren’t stopping every 15 feet? Or having to double back?

I know part of it is living with the understanding that everything counts – even the small stuff. But more than that, I’ve learned sometimes it’s forgiving yourself for the past.

What if we learned from every detour we’ve made? What if we became experts at spotting them from miles away? What if laser-like focus comes from future-orientation and past experience?

And if changing the world only comes through changed people, what if we embraced the journey we’ve already traveled as the foundation for the future?