Stay in your lane
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A friend and I have been chatting recently about how easy it is to get in the 'wrong lane'! Not necessarily with regards to falling into sin, but about the fact that it is so easy to move into someone else's lane, which may take us off on a detour, cause a delay, or mean we take on more than we were meant to. It's not easy to 'stay in your lane'. Instead, it's far easier to allow ourselves to be distracted from our own journey than it is to focus on what is right in front of us. 'Distracted' can take a lot of different formats: getting busy doing other things, worrying or overthinking, criticism of others, and procrastination, to name but a few. When we embark on our spiritual journey, we find out quickly that there are others in the race. Have you watched an athletic race? You look on as the runners start and then gradually move to the inside lane, which is where you see most of the calamities happen as everyone is trying to ...