2. No one will see you... and that's ok

What I've learned about life, riding a motorcycle:

2. No one will see you, so don't assume that you're safe because they know you're there.

It's interesting to me how much of my sense of security is rested on the assumption that others see me. There's a healthy awareness of our affect on the people around us, but if I am relying on others' awareness of me for my safety or sense of security, I'm putting my future in their hands.

In life, if I am waiting for my life/work/ministry to be seen and validated by others, my future is directly reliant on them: their awareness, ability to respond and do so in a healthy way... That probably isn't gonna happen.

When I exist in an assumption that "the opportunity will come through him/her", I exist in a dependency that limits my world to the capability of someone else to include, affirm and empower.

One of the greatest lies that I sometimes believe is that my life is dependent on another's validation of it. If I behave as if someone else will provide my role for me, I am behaving with a faulty assumption that they have the ability to give me what I'm really looking for... my significance.

The truth is, the world is waiting for us to discover significance for ourselves and become an active participant.

1. You go where you look.

What I've learned about life, riding a motorcycle:

1. You go where you look.
Where ever you're looking, the bike will follow. So, when there is a hazard in the road, don't put your attention on the hazard, look your way through it. Also keep your attention up, not right in front of you. It's interesting how much it affects the ride.

When taking a tight turn on a bike, the rider has to look to the exit of the turn, not the place in the road that he's currently on. This will bring the bike smoothly through the turn. If you get stuck in a challenging turn, just look your way through it. It's amazing how often it's the make or break factor in surviving a hard turn.

This is true for every turn.

Sometimes, in the canyons, I've got a mountain keeping me from seeing the exit of the turn. But the reality of what is helpful still remains, even if I've got reasons for why I shouldn't do it. To pull through the turn smoothly, quickly and safely I have to look through the mountain at what I can not yet see... at what is not yet there.

In life, I will go where I look. I'll get closer to and act more like the things I put my attention on.

When the road is challenging, putting my attention on the exit- what I want to accomplish in the season; who I want to become through the opportunity will often be what pulls me through well.

And sometimes, I will have to see what is not yet there. If I can see what I am yet to create, it will make the small decisions along the way very easy. If I can look at the person that I will soon become it is as inevitable that I will get closer to that man as it is that time will pass.