Chapters: It's Time To Move On To What's Next In Life

Have you ever felt stuck?Like there must be something more, better, than what I am experiencing right now? You know there is something better for you, but it just seems like there are things happening or that have happened to you that are preventing you from getting "there".Our creator designed our life to move towards a desired fulfilling, challenging, and adventurous life. A steady march of improvement towards who he has created us to be, and the life we were destined to live. The chapters of our life have been ordained to occur in an orderly fashion, but they rarely do. We often get stuck between or within chapters and our lives become stale or worse.We have all enjoyed a stream of water as it trickles by. The sound the water makes can be so relaxing and soothing. That sound is made because there is movement, progress if you will.A closer look reveals that there are places where the flow of the stream is interrupted by a turn of direction or something intruding into the stream. Behind each of those is usually a gathering of debris. At one point the debris was making progress and was part of the life of the stream. But now it is stuck and unless something happens to break it free, it will slowly just be worn down by the ongoing rush of water.Some of you reading this can relate. Your life took an unexpected turn. Something happened or someone came along, and you have never been the same. You have never felt " right" since. Life happens around you, you may even enjoy the noise of it but in the quiet moments you feel very stuck and very alone.God did not design us to be stuck or alone but alone and stuck we often are. Loneliness is easy to identify but how do we know when we are stuck? When the comfort of our present misery is greater than the passion of our hope to move forward, we are stuck.Being stuck is miserable. Miserable for us and miserable for those who have to deal with us. Being stuck is dangerous and can literally make us sick. Sick of our job, family, marriage, sick of life. People often do stupid things when they are stuck, which usually just makes them more stuck. Like flailing in the midst of quicksand we are placated by the struggle but seem oblivious to the reality we are only getting more stuck.Can this book help you?Not in the usual sense of a self-help book where the author tells the reader what to do and success is dependent upon the reader properly carrying out those directives. If the step by step self-help books worked, then why are so many new ones being written every year? Besides if we could self-help would we still be stuck?This book was written in the solitude of nature, in my truck, in my bedroom, or the quiet noise of a nearby coffee shop. This book is about life, and it was written while life was ever present. Much of it written while fasting to most clearly hear from God.Hemingway has been quoted as saying there is nothing to writing, just sit down at your typewriter and bleed. That seems dramatic but I kind of understand. This book has been in the works for years, in fact most of my life. I am not sure if I am writing this book or God is writing it through me. Something beyond me has unfailingly compelled me forward. My hesitation to write is found in the fact that many smart and gifted people have written books, I am neither. After all that has been written what could I possibly add? Seriously, I am nobody. Besides, I can be lazy, and writing is work. And yet God would not let me avoid it.As I have written these truths I have laughed, winced and even cried when I thought of the experiences I had so I could learn these truths, and prayed from my heart that you would know his heart for you in whatever you face.