The Journey

I heard a quote yesterday while at a coaching conference that I thought was absolutely brilliant. Here it is: "If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go with others." The context of this quote is our life journey, specifically our spiritual life journey.

Why is it that we prefer the fast lane? Why is it that we prefer to go alone? Is it the speed of life? Is it that we don't really want to be inconvenienced by having others around for our journey? Or is it that we are afraid of having people so close to us that the might see us for who we really are? No matter what the cause, it is time for us to re-evaluate whether we are in the mood for speed or distance.

Let me share an example of how far we have pushed ourselves toward the need for speed. I was recently reading a missions magazine that had an advertisement for "Evangelism Tools for the Twenty-first Century." The ad exclaims, "You can reach people for Christ without leaving your house!" and asks, "When can you find the time to reach out to those people between all of the other things you have to do each day?" If those thoughts resonate with you, then face the facts, your cruise control is set and these ads might as well be billboards whizzing by on the interstate of your life journey.

I don't want to spend too much time here (since we have so little time to waste), but let me simply ask the question again, do we want to go fast... or far, in our journey with Christ, and with others? Let me know what you think.

Blessings,

Shiloh