Day Twenty Five

A part of being intentional is learning to live in the trenches to get things done. I think about how many times me and billions of others have started things and not stayed in the trenches. Those who live intentionally have known for a while what I am just learning. In the past, I lacked the burning desire to really dig in and finish what I had started. It was easy to just let it drift away – not intentionally stop – just find other things to get in the way or take a higher priority.

This year in the trenches, I am pushing to make things happen. It is not pushing to make artificial things happen. It is pushing to make me happen – to change the patterns and let the real me emerge. At the base is a confidence that I can see the other side. As Paul said in the New Testament, “it is the belief that someone has created something of infinite value in me and I want to manifest it.” I want the other side. I am willing to do what is not so comfortable now to have what is possible in the future. It is a different way of thinking and acting.

We head into the Easter weekend and I look forward to a time of celebrating new birth. I already feel like the stone has been rolled away from the tomb of my own heart and mind. The grave cloths may be there, but the body is gone.

May the gift of the resurrection become real in your life as you allow something old to die so that something new can be born. More on that tomorrow.