Piloting Faith: How did I get here?

A Word for the Day...

Do you ever wonder, "How did I get here?" Here, in my case, living in Atlanta, leading organizations, flying planes, addicted to CrossFit. Why here and not somewhere else? Is this what I intended?

Most of us are grateful for our lives and all that we have gained along the way. Questioning how we got here isn't out of dissatisfaction. It's a curiosity that can teach us something of who we are and who we might become.

Is this where you intended to be or where you just ended up by default. Did you shape your life or did life shape you? Need or want to change anything going forward?

As my coach taught me many years ago, everyone gets somewhere in life. The rare person gets somewhere on purpose.

- Rev. Cameron Trimble, author of Piloting Church: Helping Your Congregation Take Flight

Prayer for the Week

Gracious God,

You have said that the meek are blessed, that those who choose to serve others for no personal gain will inherit the earth.

But how can this be? Show us how. In our world, the meek get ignored. The humble end up trampled and left for dead.

Yet meekness is what you modeled. Show us how to live with faith and confidence in your upside-down kin-dom. Change our imagination, rearrange our priorities, re-create our very way of seeing. Otherwise, pride and power make so much more sense.

Show us the giant promise of your "little" ways. Help us to desire humility, honor it in others, choose it for ourselves, that we may look more like you in this world.

Amen.

- (adapted from The Prayer Wheel by Patton Dodd, Jana Riess and David Van Biema)