As you know, this last month I have attempted to try "stillness" for the sake of becoming more authentic. The process has shown me a number of things. It has bubbled to the surface of my thinking many motivations for my "high drive" disposition. The purgation of non-essential motivators has given me the clarity I needed to appraise my life and its trajectory. But it has also revealed essential motivators, like progress and beauty. I've asked myself: What is it that I actually do in this world?

 

If our lives are likened to a growing plant, then my focus in life is our need to be repotted. I strive that we would not be root bound in the small containers we came in. My work will be about replacing the skimpy plastic shells of our germination and formation.  This is about progress: personally, professionally, and culturally.  It's about the necessity for new paradigms. New ideas. New ways of understanding and relating to God and our fellow man.  Scripture says new wine will burst old wine skins, or a new patch sewn on an old garment will tear the old garment.  If that is true, advancement will require unapologetic destruction of the tired things we've been wearing.