Many times, I have these strong ideas for blog posts, but then get busy and forget. This one just won’t go away, however.

I think sometimes in life, we come across things that seem like a roadblock in our way. Something we have a passion for, a desire for, something we would give our right arm to do. But either something or someone stops us. This is so disheartening…and this is where most of us completely fail. We give up, and we get BITTER. Or, some of us run away and try to do our great passion in another place - some of us succeed, and some of us fail.

No matter which you are, there is a great lesson to be learned in the place of the roadblock….and that is what we do with it. I am close to many people, and if I spoke of the exact situation in my life, I am afraid too many would know what it is, so I have to mask what I say in a way. But know, I know this just as well as anyone else. The feeling of frustration, anger, “WHY,” when you hit this wall and feel like you cannot do what you were born to do.

God knows what He is doing. My greatest lesson was not in the fact I was able to live out this passion or not, but how I responded when I wasn’t able to do what it is that I wanted to do at the very moment I wanted to do it.

Just recently, things have come full circle. The place in my life where I lacked opportunity, received rejection, and became wounded is the exact place that has now come to me for direction. Say what?! Talk about humbling. I chuckle here as I write. Had I responded in a wrong way at the time, would have totally shut the door of opportunity that is now being created to bridge a very large gap which is full of things I’d rather forget.

God is using this particular place to not only heal my own regrets, but to essentially do more in that previous place then I could have ever done myself. It can only be God!

So the point of this post is that you can never see the forest for the trees. You will NEVER completely understand the hold up in your life at the present moment. There IS a reason….there IS a lesson to be learned. Stop looking at what you cannot do, or what you cannot reach, and ask the reverberating question, “WHY?!” Look at you, look at your character, your motive, your RESPONSE. That is the key.

And it probably will come full circle to you too.

Way of Life is totally facelifting it’s Community Groups coming this summer 09. With that, we are putting out a catalog, but we have a small problem. We don’t have a name for it.

That’s where you come in!

We are looking for help in naming this catalog, and the winner will be mentioned in the first publication printed! (you will be a superstar).

Comment below….or find the Way of Life Community group on Facebook and comment there!!

Examples:

Atlas (National Community Church)
Waypoint
Compass
Threads

We would love our catalog theme to go hand in hand with our core values at WOL (Live. Love. Be)….visit us at www.mywayoflife.org