Standing Still

So here is the question.

(I'm going to warn you in advance that I do not have an answer so I am hoping that someone out there in the community will weigh in.)

What do you do when life begins to sort of level out? It's not high and it's not low. You are just sort of coasting. Is this a good or a bad thing? Is there something that you are missing?

For about three months things were moving at a fast pace. Now it is settling in and may be on the verge of, dare I say, routine. Have you experienced this? When this journey started it was about tackling the things in life that we all encounter. Perhaps the mundane is the biggest facet of life that we either ignore, or get incredibly frustrated with.

Jesus talks about the lukewarm believer, but what about the lukewarm existence?

Maybe these times are ideal for recharging and preparing for the next phase that is sure to be on the horizon. We have no problem acknowledging when we become physically/emotionally/spiritually fried, but do we give the same acknowledgment to the time we get to simply be?

A lot of it I think comes from the idea that we always need to be headed in some direction. Typically either up or out. Stagnation is a very dirty word in America. I get it. Except that the human race continually has a declining lifespan that one could argue is directly tied to increasing expectations.

STAND STILL!

How many times does God's word tell us that we need to rest in Him? That He alone is sufficient? Yet we pick and choose. It makes for good lyrics in a worship song, but real life application...?

Then again maybe I am totally off-base. Like I said I have no real answer, or opinion for that matter. I know how much I have grown in my thinking and attempts to apply learned principles over the past year and a half, but what do you do when it all plateaus?

Do you look for a trail on which to escape, or...do you stop and take in the scenery? The answer seems like it should be simple, but - as with the bulk of life - it appears much more complex than on its surface. We get older, we gain experience, maybe our circles become tighter and we start to question.We were made with purpose, with reason and just knowing that doesn't mean that we are going to understand.

It may go against everything we feel we have learned, but simply riding out the wave has to have a place in this world. Right?

The goal is to #LvLUp on a daily basis, difficult to do on a loading screen.

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Please comment and let me know what your thoughts are on this. Dialogue can illuminate things that hiding.