Monday, November 8, 2010

Flying Solo

This year has been a banner year for me as far as decisions go. I mean real decisions. The ones that stick. That's because I made some real hard ones when noone one else was around. It wasn't anyone else's idea that I was jumping on a bandwagon for. Some of them have been profound enough in their ramifications that the results were very noticeable and others have just led me down a better path with no outward manifestations. It's all about decisions. Like my friend Troy Brown says, "It's in your moments of decision that your life is shaped."

I've been in a lot of group environments in my life. Lots of church revivals, special women's events, business seminars. Most of them move me to make decisions and at some of those events I've made some very significant decisions. Where I make the ones that REALLY matter, though, is when I'm staring at the ceiling as I'm waking up in the morning. There are so many voices that speak to us to be less than we can be - and listening to those voices causes us to live up to their prophecies over us. But to catapult up past all those limiting thoughts and choose to live on a higher plane where the voices can't be heard as loudly, is a solo flight. Noone can make that choice for you. If you choose to be all you can be, you might make some people feel uncomfortable - because you don't match their perception of you anymore and that's hard for them. Can you feel that heat and not snap back to the "normal?" It's a solo flight.