How do we shift in life?
Women’s lives are full.
Media feeds us false messages of who we should be. The fast pace of life leaves us harried and exhausted. Social media tempts us to compare ourselves with women in our church, community, across the nation and even around the world. We frantically scour the web, television, or shopping aisles searching for peace neatly wrapped in pleasure. In our efforts to run through life, we grind our gears and idle in agitation.
We need to shift into another gear—to a life of freedom.
When I picture the word shift, I think of my first driving lessons. Like many other baby boomers, I was taught to drive with a stick shift. My dad’s red Ford pickup was equipped with a stick shift—a long skinny metal stick with a knob on top that came up from the floorboard. The stick danced a bit as you moved down the road. When I was driving it was positioned to the side of my right leg.
In newer pickups the gear shift was a lever located behind the steering wheel. The driver had to visualize the letter H to know how to shift. First gear was at the top left of the H. Second gear was at the bottom left of the H. Third gear was at the top right of the H, and reverse was at the bottom right of the H. If you never learned to feel for the gentle nuances between the clutch and the brake, the truck would jolt and jerk, and you wouldn’t get far. And if you shoved the “stick shift” to the middle of the H, you went nowhere, even though the engine kept on running. That’s called idling.
Later in life, I’d discover that learning to shift that old truck would be a lot like my journey through life. Like many women, I’d be tempted to remain stuck or push my way through the gears without learning the rhythms of the engine. My spiritual life would sputter, stall, and get stuck in idle.
Isn’t that a bit like so many women’s lives? We run, but do we get where we want to go in life?
Enable Me, Lord, to Shift is a series of inspirational coaching devotionals that teach readers to examine each domain of their life. To change, we must look at who we are and then evaluate our life. We must embrace the good but also pull up the dead weeds to plant the seeds of Truth that bring about transformation and wholeness. Transformation takes time and practice. Only you can choose to change yourself. I know because I learned these principles through the discipline of pain and personal practice. I invested my time, and the seeds that were planted years ago have begun to multiply.
Are you ready to make the shift?
Enable Me, Lord, to Shift, offers you a self-assessment report card, verse, an inspiring story, and coaching questions to help you evaluate your life and align it with the Truth of God’s Word. The book will teach you how to shift from being stuck—to gain Truth to live a life of freedom and walk in your true identity and to step into your life purpose.
Purchase books Book ONE!
Book 30 minutes of coaching with me Book 30 free minutes of coaching with me~
