I have a good friend who frequently uses this expression. He believes there is a path that everyone is destined to walk and no one can walk that walk for you. I woke up this morning thinking on his words in light of some recent decisions I had made and I suddenly realized I had departed from my 'walk' when I made those decisions. I'd allowed the influence of someone to cloud my thought processes. Certainly, I'm not casting blame. I take full responsibility for my choices but as I pondered those choices in my first waking moments, I knew the choice I'd made was not what I would have normally done.
Here we go with hindsight again! It's just so amazing how clearly we see things after the fact. But, Amen, I did see it this morning and I recognized that I gotta walk my walk! It might not make sense to someone else why I live the way I do, why I do or don't do certain things, etc. But it's MY WALK and no one else can walk it for me.
We each have a rhythm, a pace, a cadence that we move to in everything that we do. I'm talking more than how fast you talk or walk although that is a part of your rhythm. Rhythm includes the way you think. How you mentally process things. Your general attitude about life. For example, usually when I wake up to start the day, although I love my morning coffee, that's not what I reach for first.
I turn on some music!
I greet the Lord and the day in song. I dance my way to the coffee pot and turn it on. Yeees! Now the day can start. That's my rhythm. I walk with it in my head and I flow with it through out the day. When something happens that stops the music in my head... we have a problem. I need to pay attention to that. What just knocked me off my rhythm?
Are you feeling me on this?
If you find that you have been distracted from your walk and knocked off your rhythm then you need to figure out how to get back on your path. What worked for you? Start there. Often we leave the very things that were helping us to follow after stuff that just doesn't work. Whew! What's up with that?! Ok.... don't worry about it... shoulda, woulda, coulda ain't no gooda! But here's what you can do:
Recognize what works for you and pursue it.
This reminds me of David. When King Saul put his armor on David to fight Goliath, he tried walking in it but it was just too heavy for him. He couldn't maneuver in it. I'm sure the King meant well. He was simply outfitting David in what all the other soldiers were wearing. I'm sure David didn't want to disrespect the Kings efforts but he recognized... This is not my walk. I don't fight like this. So he took it off and went back to what worked for him. And we know the ending of that story...Goliath got his head chopped off!
You know, when we get off our walk, we make it easy for the 'giants' of life to really knock us down for the count. But the count ain't over! You can make the choice to get up and try again. So I'm encouraging you today to:
Get back on your path!
Get back on your rhythm!
Walk your walk!
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