The Greatest Lie

This is just a quick break from giving a rundown of last years resolutions. I’m gonna finish it. I just wanted to share this really quick.

I was listening Rob Bell’s podcast last night and he made the statement that the Greatest Lie is that this is as good as it gets.

I thought this was fantastic. I look back on my life and I think about how many times I’ve settled into circumstances telling myself, “This is better than nothing.” When in reality I was miserable and unhappy.

I’ll be honest. I’m not really all that thrilled about where I’m at in life right now. I’m caught in this weird time of transition. I’m in the process of moving. I have an apartment in one town, but most of my things are in a spare room at my parents. I only really get to see my girlfriend on the weekends. I have a decent job and a great boss, but it’s exhausting and worse than that it’s not challenging. That may not make sense, but imagine coming home everyday completely wiped and when you’re asked what you did you can honestly say you did nothing. It’s not fun.

The Greek Orthodox church has this notion of the divine called Perichoresis. It literally translates into a “circle dance.” It's this idea that each person of the trinity was involved in a dance with the other two. For them god was dancing with God’s self, and that the divine goal is to invite and draw all of creation into this dance. For the Greek Orthodox church the center of the universe is dancing, it’s joy, it’s fun and everyone and everything is invited.

Now maybe you don’t believe in God, or terms like the trinity aren’t all that helpful or maybe they’re even harmful. That’s ok. I still believe the metaphor works. Regardless of our beliefs and opinions about metaphysical things, I believe we can all agree that at some level when we know when we’ve stepped into that dance. We feel it when find ourselves doing that thing that we believe we were meant to do. There’s a rhythm to it and you can feel it in your guts.

It’s like we all kind of instinctively know that life at it’s core should be a dance.

So maybe this is more of a pep talk for me, but maybe you guys can get something out of it too.

I have big dreams and ideas. I have things that I want to do that seem fantastic and out of reach. I think that 2016 is going to be a huge year for me. It’ll be tough. It’ll require working a less than satisfying job to pay the bills and when I’m not there I’m chasing this other thing. There’ll be exhaustion and stress and a ton of work involved to get where I want to go, but man, I’ve seen glimpses of things and I’m like, “What if I went after them?” I feel this energetic potential and rhythm and I’m thinking, “What if I stepped into that?”

Start dancing people. The world needs you.