Again and again and again. Some mornings I wake up not wanting to face the day. I’ve laid in bed assessing the day before and the recognition of how wrong I’ve got it and keep getting it sometimes really drags me down and causes me to feel like I don’t want to face another day of it. How will I have the strength today to not succumb to the ways that I know are not good for me? Or succumb to the ways that are not good for the people around me? I think about the example I am setting for myself to live by, my kids, my friends, and even the strangers I come into contact with.
But everyone who knows me knows that I approach every day as a new day, a new opportunity to start again. And while some days are harder than others to feel like I can start again, I do it. Some days it feels like the weight of many days of getting it wrong are pressing on me and that I am too far away from the woman I want to be to be able to get back.
I know that many people feel this weight. The sum of all our days can really add up to something so much bigger than we are and feel insurmountable. I am in the midst of those days. But as anyone would tell me, the best way to approach eating an elephant is one bite at a time. So, each day, I am slowly changing the course. I didn’t get here by one event, so I won’t get out by one. unless I chose death. But I don’t choose death because the possibilities of life are too great and the opportunity to make the changes, even the small ones regularly are available. They are available every single day to every single person. I don’t care where you’ve been or what you’ve done, the opportunity to change is always right there.
I love the song One Step Away by Casting Crowns, because that’s really all it is–one step, it might be a baby step, but that’s it! One step!! And knowing this, I am able to rise and greet the day and know that whatever failings the day will bring, I will have taken one step, even one baby step and I will continue to do so despite everything, and I will make my way.
What if you could go back and relive one day of your life all over again
-Casting Crowns, One Step Away
And unmake the mistake that left you a million miles away
From the you, you once knew
Now yesterday’s shame keeps saying that you’ll never get back on track
But what if I told you…
You’re one step away from surrender
One step away from coming home, coming home
One step from arms wide open
His love has never let you go
You’re not alone
You’re one step away
It doesn’t matter how far you’ve gone
Mercy says you don’t have to keep running down the road you’re on
Love’s never met a lost cause
Your shame, lay it down
Leave your ghosts in the past ‘cause you know that you can’t go back
But you can turn around
You’ve never been more than…
One step away from surrender
One step away from coming home, coming home
One step from arms wide open
His love has never let you go
You’re not alone (not alone)
You’re one step away
One step away
Lay down, lay down your old chains
Come now, and take up your new name
Your best life up ahead now
You’re one step away
So come on home, come on home
One step from arms wide open
His love has never let you go
You’re not alone (you’re not alone)
You’re one step away
Lay down, lay down your old chains
Take up, take up your new name
Lay down, lay down your old chains
Come now, take up your new name
Your best life up ahead now
One step away
Lay down, lay down your old chains
Come now, and take up your new name
Your best life up ahead now
You’re just one step away
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