Creating Is Your Greatest Form Of Control

​You create life, or you continue journeying through life discovering what life is making of you.

I am one, who with great experience, can say that what life makes of us isn't always a bad thing. But what might be a bad thing is life missing out on all the things I was capable of making of it.

Every time we create something that looks like our future, we take a step toward THAT future.

A future of our design.

Of our contribution.

I am proud of what life has made of me. But I often wrestle with all that I might have made of life. I often wonder what my future would have looked like if I'd taken a more active role in creating my future.

That used to feel a lot like regret. These days it feels more like motivation. Inspiration. For as long as I have breath I am capable of creating.

Creating a future that will look like a father and sons who can belong to one another.

Creating a future that will be filled with the many words that have come to me in some past that I have taken the time to jot down and share.

Creating a future that will look like love and acceptance. Sometimes we receive what we long for by first creating it.

Creating a future that will look much more like my design than life's surprise.

I often say that one of the big reasons I believe in the God of the Christian story is that God's heart for being a creator. That God's story started with him imagining a future and then creating it.

And constantly re-creating it as that future unfolds.

I believe all who have been created inherited that part of the heart of the creator. In our quietest moments we are all, one way or another, dreaming of that which we might create.

Contribute.

Leave behind as some meaningful sign that we were here.

What best turns life's surprises to your designs? Create what you dream.

Take your step into YOUR future, not life's future.

We all crave control but often hesitate to create all that we long to create. Creating IS our greatest opportunity to have some control in life.

We all have an opportunity to create our future and not show up for the one that is somewhere out there waiting for us.

Take your step today.

Create.