Who Wins The Race?
In the race of life, who wins?
When you come to the end of your days, will you look back and believe in your heart that you won this so called race?
Or will you look back and wonder if you made the right decisions, took the right turns, and raised your kids in the way you intended to?
The race of life of getting from one thing to the next in record time is making us all sick. It’s making us tired. It diminishing our relationships with one another. We’ve all been fed the lies that we are in competition with each other to win this race and those lies are the things that become our truth if we let them.
So why should we let that happen?
Can we decide to call the race a draw and back out just in time to actually truly live?
What happens when you make a choice to intentionally slow down long enough to enjoy the scenic views without actually making it to the finish line first?
What if you made the choice to heal? To take off the watch, stop counting calories burned, and throw the miles ran to the wayside? What if you slowed down long enough to see that this race isn’t one meant to be won, but one meant to be enjoyed with every fiber of who you are and what your soul is?
Once we make the choice to stop racing, life becomes more enjoyable. We can make the choice to live intentionally for ourselves and our family. We can make the choice to give the glory to God in all we do. We can choose to run the race for ourselves and ourselves alone instead of always comparing our miles ran to the person next door.
The race of life isn’t one to be won.
The race of life isn’t one to be compared.
The race of life isn’t even a race at all.
It’s journey through valleys and mountaintops. It’s wading in shallow waters and swimming through rough seas. It’s sunrises and sunsets next to the person you love the most. It’s pizza night on Fridays, early morning coffee with your baby in your arms, and bedtime stories with your kids laughing around you.
This race isn’t a race but it is your life.
You deserve to fall in love with your life again and not feel like you’re in a race against everyone else.
So slow down.
Let the race go.
Forget the invisible finish line.
And please, just go live your life in the fullest way possible.