Getting the Wheels to Move

We have just about made it through another year intact and with our chins held high. That's reason to celebrate! So while we wait for that very last night of the year, we can glance back for a moment and dream about where we want to go in the coming year. No serious plans right now--that can wait for a few days at least--just a fun peek into the future. 

Wheels of any kind--bicycles, motorcycles, Ferris wheels, roller skates, potters' wheels, and all those planes, trains, and automobiles--have one thing in common and one purpose: momentum. Once they start moving, it's very hard to get them to stop. This is really a semblance of ourselves.     

Maybe we didn't choose it and, we still feel a little shaky, but our single-again lives are moving whether we want them to or not. The questions are which direction, how fast, and who is at the wheel? If 20mph was the speed we couldn't get past this year, then maybe it's time to step on the gas a bit.

Direction
Where do we want to go in the first place? The wheels are moving, so this is no time to let go! Surely there are things we really want to do with our lives. It could be leaving one job and taking a better one that will fit our gifts and talents. It could be finding a better place to live or even moving to a town/city we have always loved. Anything is possible! Just ask God.        

Speed
Is the time now? Or will it take six months for the preparations? We may need to map out how fast we can get to our dream place. Do we need to get a higher degree for that new job? We can take a vacation to that new town and check out a place to live there. That new job could be in that new town. "Two birds with one stone" we might say!  

Control
It's never too late to be what you might have been. T. S. Eliot, American Poet

Maybe we begin a new life by jotting down plans in a journal. When we see it on paper, it becomes real. Attainable. Possible. We register for that college class. We ask for that job promotion. We stick our necks out for our dreams once and for all. We don't look back. 

Being single-again, we are responsible for not only ourselves, but children too, if we have them. No one else is going to do this for us (nor would we want them to). Only when we rely on God and try, are we going to arrive at a point of accomplishment which builds our confidence so we can do even more. 

So, are we ready to have some fun? 

Now all glory to God, who is able, through his mighty power at work within us, to accomplish infinitely more than we might ask or think. Ephesians 3:20