Piloting Faith: Instead of FOMO (fear of missing out), let's embrace JOMO in 2019
A Word for the Day...
At the beginning of every year, I complete a Vision Board. It's a practice that I began in my early 20s when I was focused on conquering the world. If I wanted to run companies, start churches and fly planes...well, I needed to be focused on accomplishing ALL. THE. THINGS.
I'm done with that.
I don't need to be busy every minute. I am finding I need to be less busy to have more impact.
I was talking with a colleague the other day who said, "I am done with FOMO, the 'fear of missing out.' I am embracing JOMO, the 'joy of missing out.'"
This year, I strongly encourage you to make a vision board for how you want to spend your time in 2019. But look at the final result through the lens of the change you wish to catalyze in the world or the difference you want to make. You can make a big difference with little effort. Knowing where and how to invest your gifts, time and talent is the key.
- Rev. Cameron Trimble, author of Piloting Church: Helping Your Congregation Take Flight
Prayer for the Week
Holy One,
As I begin this year, show me how to be God-minded without being self-righteous. How to wear my faith lately, yet hold it deeply.
I want to find that way. I want to receive the gift of piety, that I may have a rich reservoir of faith and trust in you, without an ounce of self-regard seeping in.
Keep holding me fast to your ways, and let me not take pride in doing so.
May I be mindful of you first. May I look and listen for your well in all things.
Save me from making the gifts a spiritual practice–
meditating,
reading a sacred text,
praying a sincere prayer,
walking through the door of the church –
occasions for pride, for that warm feeling of achievement that I so easily mistake for your "well done."
Let piety be your work in me, your genuine goodness suffusing my heart.
In the meantime, thank you for receiving me...just as I am.
Amen.
(adapted from The Prayer Wheel by Patton Dodd, Jana Riess, and David Van Biema)
