You are allowed to change your current path and move to a new one.
What do you want?
Do you ever stop and ask yourself that question?
What do you really want?
It’s a question worth returning to often. Life has a way of putting us on autopilot. We move through the same routines, the same conversations, the same patterns, until one day we look up and realize ten years have passed.
You are allowed to change your current path and move to a new one.
You don’t have to keep repeating yesterday just because it’s familiar.
As I prepare to turn 60 later this year, I’ve been asking myself this question again. Here’s what rises to the surface, no particular order, and certainly not a complete list.
I want deep, joyful relationships and meaningful experiences.
I want to create wonderful memories.
I want to deepen my relationship with my wife, my sons, and my daughter.
I want to invest more intentionally in family and friendships.
I want to meet new people and discover how we might help one another.
I want to savor life, really savor it.
A cup of coffee.
A book I’m reading.
A show I’m watching.
A walk around the neighborhood.
Even a simple drive to the store.
I don’t want fear to keep me small. I want the courage to step outside my comfort zone, at work, in my marriage, and through Silence Teaches.
I want to travel and see new places.
I want weekly dates with my wife.
I want long walks with my daughter.
I want to text my son who lives a couple of states north of us, just to say hi.
In a previous post, I shared about a time my wife, my son, and I were in Charlotte and decided to hand out gift cards to people experiencing homelessness so they could have a free meal. I want to do that more often.
I want to sit in the silence of centering prayer and allow God to pray in me.
And outside of those sits, I want to discern the prayers God has planted in my heart, and most importantly, act on them.
I want to publish my second book in 2026.
I want to help people become who God created them to be and take courageous action from that identity.
If you’d like to explore that together, you can click here to learn more about working with me one-on-one.
I want to be honest and vulnerable in these weekly reflections.
If I feel nudged to share something that might help you, I want to share it.
And I will keep asking myself this question.
I encourage you to do the same.
What do you really want?
I recently listened to an interview where James Martin spoke with Anne Lamott. I had never heard her speak before, nor had I read any of her books. Within minutes, I was drawn in by her honesty and vulnerability.
I especially appreciated their conversation about the power and simplicity of prayer. It was thoughtful, real, and deeply human. You can listen to their conversation here.
After hearing her, I’m looking forward to reading her book, Help, Thanks, Wow: The Three Essential Prayers, very soon.
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