New Opportunities

This year has already begun to fill with new opportunities for me, which has me thinking about how we know when we're supposed to wait and when we're supposed to move.  2010 was a super-charged jolt after a few years of languishing in a holding pattern.  That seems to be par for the course for those of us post-grad 20-somethings.  I know I spent a lot of time refusing to move on and honestly had to have things yanked out from under me before I would give up.  But here I am, and things are going much better than I could have planned.

As I think more about it though, the frustrating experiences I went through in the last few years were integral in who I am today.  Is that usually the case?  Do we have to go through dark times in order to be ready for great joy?  If we have no reason to accept new opportunities - if we remain comfortable in our day to day lives - perhaps we will never decide to move on.  Growth is painful and uncomfortable and messy.  But it is also Good.

John 12:24 (The Message)

 ^24-25"Listen carefully: Unless a grain of wheat is buried in the ground, dead to the world, it is never any more than a grain of wheat. But if it is buried, it sprouts and reproduces itself many times over. In the same way, anyone who holds on to life just as it is destroys that life. But if you let it go, reckless in your love, you'll have it forever, real and eternal."

K.