"When you look at your face in the mirror, what do you see in it that you most like and what do you see in it that you most deplore? If you had only one last message to leave to the handful of people who are most important to you, what would it be in twenty-five words or less?...To hear yourself try to answer questions like these is to begin to hear something not only of who you are but of both what you are becoming and what you are failing to become." (F. Buechner "Listening to Your Life" pp.56-57)
Life often seems to be a series of questions. Some are easy what will I wear this morning? Some a little more complicated? Should I take this job? Others can really keep you up at night. Who am I? What am I doing with my life? Why me?
Yet those really hard ones are in fact the most important ultimately, and yet the ones that usually get pushed to the back of our minds.
We don't take stock of ourselves when things are going well for some reason. These questions seem to scream for answers when we are in a valley period or feel stuck. Perhaps if we took the time to address them when things are going well, they might not feel so overwhelming when we aren't in a good place.
Don't be afraid of that person in the mirror, but have an honest heart to heart with that person. You may be surprised with what you hear.
Blessings,
Ed
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