Have you ever had a moment where you realized you had been running through life with your headphones on & you had been a little too lost in your own world, and so when you finally opened your eyes and looked around a little you noticed you were completely off course and had to find a new path?
That happened to me a year ago. I thought I knew where I was headed, and even when I encountered rough patches, I was able to readjust and keep trucking along. It was like I had signed up & trained to participate in a 5k and then realized that I was actually supposed to be running a marathon. My brain freaked out a little bit and I wanted to get out of there as fast as possible but, because of someone I met, I stuck around instead.
The people you meet...that change everything.
The reason why I began sharing about people that I have met is simple- If things were up to me a year ago, I would never have met any of them. I had surrounded myself with people and things that brought me down and I forgot that I had purpose, and when I finally looked up and I saw where I was headed, I couldn’t handle it. Then I received a simple text message from an incredible woman.
While I met her a decade ago, only recently has her influence in my life changed everything so drastically. She went from someone that I saw at school, to someone I saw occasionally, to someone I see all the time. The day I realized I was in for a much more difficult journey that I had anticipated, she was right there to guide me and, because of her, I have encountered obstacles, and people to challenge me to be better and stronger. I have water stations, and people to refresh me and encourage me along the way. She is the reason I live, work, and worship where, and how, I do. Not because she has told me to do any of those things, but because through her encouragement I am making choices that I never would have made before.
I promise that I don’t intentionally look for meaning in every aspect of my life, and I try not to take myself all that seriously, but I do keep in mind that the life I am living is not about me, and that I have work to do. You can treat the people you meet however you please, obviously, but when you start meeting them with purpose, things change fast.
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