Starting Line

The one thing about running on a circular track, which honestly I haven’t done in about 15 years. I just turned 34 so that is more likely 16 years since graduating, man I have almost doubled my high school age, who knew that would go by so fast. Back to the track. When you run on a circular track you get to pass the starting line a few times.  The great thing about that is if you had a bad lap you know you can recreate the same path and do it better.  I’m not going to go into the metaphor of running life in circles which many of us do. What I am suggesting is that sometimes starting over to redo a lap is a good thing. I haven’t touched this page in well a long time. So time to redo a lap and take it to the streets for forward running.

I wasn’t sure why I stopped. I really do love writing and sharing wisdom.  Then it hit me the other night while speaking with my wife. Many revelations come to me that way, just conversing with her clears my thoughts.  We should probably do that more. I had stopped because I was so focused on my numbers that I forgot to be focused on the writing. A few minutes later I heard God say, “were you writing for the applause of man, or were you writing for me?”  Enter Galatians 1:10 “Am I now trying to win the approval of human beings, or of God? Or am I trying to please people? If I were still trying to please people, I would not be a servant of Christ.”

That hit me pretty hard.  From this point forward I am writing for God and if he and I are the only ones that read, so be it.  

It’s amazing when you do receive a humbling revelation like the one I did. It’s not to often that I clearly know that something was not from my own mind and was a true word of the spirit. 

The one thing I do know is that when one hears one must obey.

Till next time and there will be a next time,

It’s a blessed life,

Joseph Cortez