As we grow and progress in our lives there are designated markers which let us know we have reached the top. The awards, the graduations, the promotions, the accolades, and the prizes. There is a concrete expected way for us to know we have reached the summit, we have made it, we are at the pinnacle. Since we live in a world that readily has available a number of ways of knowing whether or not we have accomplished the goal or deserve to say we have reached the pinnacle we do not often stop to pay attention to all the little pinnacles along the way. How many marathon runners consider it a pinnacle the first time they went for a run or even put on their sneakers? How many actors consider it a pinnacle the time they memorized the lines of their Oscar winning role? More importantly, how many people just stop being and living once they have reached a pinnacle of any kind? Unless the pinnacle is a death certificate, no one. God invites us to look at all the pinnacles we are reaching each day of our lives. How about our first breath of the day? What about the smile we gave someone instead of a frown despite how frustrated we were standing in line? Measuring the pinnacles of our lives only by the outside world’s recognition leaves little if any acknowledgement of the journey especially the journey of the heart. When we use our hearts to open our eyes to the variety of pinnacles we are reaching within one given day, we open up the power of gratitude and see all of life through a new lens. It is so easy to take for granted the idea that taking our first breath today is a pinnacle and the only way we were able to set a course for the next step which will get us to the pinnacles that everyone else is able to see. It is not an either or proposition. It is both and. Allowing our hearts to adjust the lens of our minds to seeing the pinnacles along the way to the understood or accepted summit changes who we are being and makes room to fully embody the experience of reaching the pinnacle everyone else is able to recognize. God calls us to see ourselves as the pinnacle of creation she sees at every moment of life.
Is it possible while we are busy trying to reach the pinnacle of accomplishment according to the world we are clouding the vision of our hearts present to our embodiment of the pinnacle of life today?
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