Happy New Year! With new years come new experiences.

My brother has been learning to fly and shared with me an interesting tidbit about his experience. He told me about how he and his instructor were pushing the plane back into the hanger, which surprised me because planes taxi and fly and so on. He tells me planes (at least the kind he flies) are not very good at driving, especially the finer movements that are required for hanger entrance. That hit me like a truth bomb. Driving is not what a plane is designed to do. Operate within your own calling. Stay in your lane. Sometimes if things aren’t going so well and you have to “force” something to work, that could be a sign that you’re not in your own lane. So many people are not living to their highest potential because they aren’t operating in their own calling, what they were designed to do.

38 Then Saul dressed David in his own tunic. He put a coat of armor on him and a bronze helmet on his head. 39 David fastened on his sword over the tunic and tried walking around, because he was not used to them.

“I cannot go in these,” he said to Saul, “because I am not used to them.” So he took them off. 40 Then he took his staff in his hand, chose five smooth stones from the stream, put them in the pouch of his shepherd’s bag and, with his sling in his hand, approached the Philistine. (1Samuel 17:38-40)