Have you ever been stranded? I mean just stuck someplace that you couldn’t escape from? Maybe it was physical or emotional or spiritual. It can be hard to admit when we are stuck whether we are trying to admit it to ourselves or to other people.

Last week my car broke, and I was stuck at the repair shop. To ease myself I walked to the grocery store while that were fixing my car. I had this need to not feel stuck, this need to take control over my life again, so I left. I spent my hour walking around the store doing all the grocery shopping a person could do and when my cart was full I decided it was time to go back to the repair shop. I had succeeded in not being stuck!

So I thought. As I am walking back with my cart full of groceries, my cart just stops. This was not some act of God stopping me, this was the kind of cart stopping that causes you to walk into the cart full force. All the wheels on the cart we just magically frozen. I couldn’t push it. I couldn’t pull it. There was no where to go. I was stuck somewhere between the grocery store and the mechanic. For almost an hour I waited until someone could come to my rescue, but until then there was absolutely nothing I could do but be stuck in the middle of the Asphalt Sea of nothingness.

It is the New Year, a time where we often make a lot of promises to ourselves to be better, to be healthier, to save more money, to take care of something that has been hanging over our heads. I hope that in this new year we don’t get stuck in our old ways yet again, I do hope that we can break through into the hope of what is before us, but if we are stuck, if we find ourselves in a sea of asphalt, know that you are not alone. For everyone is stuck at some point in their lives.

Peace,

Heather