“To” is a time when growth happens.
It is the Saturday between Good Friday and Easter.
It is the sometimes grueling, sometimes waiting, sometime unapparent, but always growing/transforming period.
And I am almost finished with my to period in two major ways:
1. Graduate School (and potentially all formal education)
2. Single life
I have really started to understand that no matter how inherently powerful a finish line is, you have control to make it even more enjoyable…
By buckling down heavy when you don’t have to.
Matthew 5:41
“If someone forces you to go one mile, go with him two miles.”
Push heavy when you aren’t expected to, thus resulting in an expansion of expectations about you …
This is ridiculous sounding because the lower expectations are, the less you have to do – right?
No – and this is the issue.
The less somebody expects of you, the less you get to do with any tied implications, and a lack of discipline all too easily results in a lack of growth (because we are humans and want the easy way out).
I think there is a balance that exists between freedom and discipline, but in either case …
Power through the to.
Any stories of when you pushed through the “to” getting to a finish line greater than expected?
ltlo
