dailydatewithgod

There is a sense of relief when we feel like we have found where we belong.  It settles a fundamental part of our nature because it assures survival.  If we fit into the groove of people we will not be left to fend for ourselves.  If we match the groove of the way others think we will not be considered too strange to belong.   This primal nature drives us more than we realize. Our grooves may extend outside the group we belong to but provide a connection point from which to grow.  Unfortunately many of us end up experiencing grooves as ruts.  We feel like it is something we are stuck with because we were born into it.  The perspective of being stuck in some cases provides an easy excuse not to explore and in others a reason to rebel.  Our hearts find us somewhere in the middle.  What if the grooves we were born into were only meant to provide an initial training ground from which to grow?  What if we were never meant to stay put in our grooves but branch out and discover new ones?  What would it look like to value the grooves we started with and use them as a springboard to grow in our hearts and minds by carving new grooves for our lives and the lives of others we have not yet met? Our lives are not predetermined and we can create new grooves if we choose.  It takes courage and commitment because the challenge of carving and forming new grooves will come from within ourselves and those who belong to the groove we started in.