What Is That Big Rock Doing In The Middle Of My Path?

Most of us have some sort of a plan on how we see our lives progressing. It may only be in our head, but it is an expected direction we see ourselves going. High school, college, work, family, kids, work, retirement. Each of our paths are different.

But scattered upon our paths, most of us come upon some great big boulders. I’m not talking about ones that will move out of the way if you put back your back into it. I’m talking about those huge mammoth boulders that wouldn’t move with a stick of dynamite.

These boulders could be a lot of things. Health problems, money problems or relationship problems. These boulders can almost be anything. Each of us have our own, very specific and personal boulders and no two boulders are exactly the same.

Boulders appear for a myriad of reasons. Our poor decisions or others’ poor decisions. Sometimes we see the boulders from far away and other times they drop down in front of us from nowhere.

How we deal with these boulders says a lot about who we are.

We can go around them and try to avoid them. We can change our paths. We can stand there forever looking at the boulder and let it stop our journey. But if we don’t do something with the boulder we’re stuck. They will stay there and block our paths, always keeping us from getting to our desired destination.

The best way to deal with these boulders is to attack them. Take a pick ax and start swinging. Break them down to the point where all that is left is dust.

It, more than likely, will take some time. These boulders are enormous! But every time we grab the handle, exert the strength to lift the heavy head of the pick ax and swing, something incredible happens. We grow stronger!

After days and weeks and months of swinging, it gets easier. The pick ax seems to be getting lighter. Our swings are able to chip larger pieces of rock off of the boulder. The boulder gets smaller and smaller to the point where only a small pebble is left.

With this strength gained from dealing with a boulder, other boulders become less daunting and are easier to destroy. It’s a never ending cycle of building strength through crushing our particular, personal boulders.

It may be time to grab the handle of the pick ax.