Maintain Momentum on Your Inspired Purpose

Do you feel called to do something, be something, or create something? Does life keep getting in the way? Here are some thoughts on doing that.

Do you feel called to write a book, build a course, launch or expand a business, create a sustainable property, offer retreats, build a healing practice, start a nonprofit, form a ministry, etc.? Does life keep throwing a monkey wrench into your plans? Life has a way of doing that to most of us. So, here are some thoughts on keeping your momentum going when life keeps getting in the way.

My husband, Dave, and I feel like part of our purpose is to prepare our property to hold retreats and day classes on connecting with God in nature. We’ve held retreats in the past, but our property currently needs some preparatory maintenance. Unfortunately, I haven’t been able to do much physically on the property with the sciatic pain. I’ve felt very useless in that regard, and Dave’s had to double up and do a lot of it.

On the flipside, I’ve made some significant emotional and spiritual progress on the messages I’m here to share. I’ve had revolutionary epiphanies that have been an outgrowth of this pit of pain that I’ve been in. My season of disability has caused me to dive deep and release some of my personal fears — like not being good enough, not being perfect enough, needing to earn my value, and even not belonging. These are all typical fears that get in the way of doing what God is asking us to do. My pit of pain has helped me release a lot of these things.

Fast Tracking Even When You Feel Disabled

I was telling Dave that it’s sort of like the moving sidewalks at the airport. You can either walk to your next gate, or sometimes they have those moving sidewalks. You can get on one of those and literally, lean back and let the sidewalk take you where you need to go faster than you can walk there. You can physically rest completely, but you’ll still make great progress.

Sometimes life puts us in these positions where we feel like we’re not physically contributing to forward movement, but we really are making great strides. We’re on some kind of fast track of emotional and spiritual growth. Much of what I’m getting out of my personal pit of pain, I’ve been documenting for a future book. While I’ve not been able to perform physical labor, I’m making progress in other areas.

Looking for Alternative Growth Paths

What can you do alongside your everyday challenges, responsibilities, and setbacks? Life gives you both challenge and support all the time. Which are you going to focus on? Are you going to focus on the challenge? Or are you going to say, “Okay, maybe I’m not able to move forward in this direction because of certain limitations and roadblocks, but how could I move forward in another way? Where could I dive deeper emotionally, mentally, spiritually? What is opening up to you for me?”

Hopefully we get to the point where we’re moving forward in a concerted effort, but let’s face it. We’re all living in a mortal world. There’s always challenges and there’s always obstacles that we can use as excuses to keep us from doing what we feel God calling us to do. So, when those obstacles arise and close one path, look around and ask, “This closed up for me today, what else is opening up? Maybe God’s asking me to step in a different direction. Maybe He’s asking me to climb through a window because a door just closed.”

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