John Ortberg's book, The Me I Want to Be, has been a great summer read for me. Ortberg writes:
I'm a grown man, I thought. I do not know how many years of life are before me. I cannot wait anymore. When I was going to school, I was preoccupied with good grades or getting cute girls to like me. As the years went by, I became preoccupied with work and my circumstances because I thought they would make me feel alive. I can't wait anymore to be that man, I thought.
I realized this then, and I know it now: I want that life more than I want anything else. Not because I think I'm supposed to, not because it says somewhere that you should. I want it. There is a me I want to be.
As I am being reminded periodically by faithful servants in the church, I am nearly 50! I think the questions Ortberg poses are good food for fodder throughout our lives. Am I the me I want to be -- at this point in my journey. Having two weeks of vacation helped immensely in helping to shake out the cobwebs and chew on these questions. I look forward hearing from you as you look at your journey. Are you on stuck or are you continuing to emerge into the person God has called you to be?
On the journey,
Alecia
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Bought the book. :)
ReplyDeleteCan you ever BE the person you want to be? If life is a journey, you should never stop trying to improve. I find now that I am wiser, I know better what I'd like to be, but wish I had the energy I wasted when I was younger and didn't have a clue. An advantage of age is that you can be a lot calmer about the things you let go of in order to work toward the being you want to be.
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