It’s been a month since 2020 began. I usually choose a word for the year and somewhere along the way I usually forget it, or give up on it. 2020’s word is PROGRESS. I sat at my journal reviewing all this month had brought and I thought to myself “there wasn’t really any progress”. But the more I wrote and thought, the more I realized exactly what progress is.
In my mind progress is doing big things, accomplishing everything on my list everyday, eating a certain way, and putting in ___ amount of hours in the gym. This month I failed at these. But what if progress is choosing to see things in a new perspective.
Perfection screams, but progress steals its name. I too often believe progress equals perfection, but that’s impossible. I’m not perfect. I didn’t have a perfect month. It was a month full of things that were out of my control.
I can use these as excuses..balancing a job, college classes, and student teaching, having a lost grandpa that’s dying of pancreatic cancer, missing my boyfriend who lives 17 hours away, having family issues that aren’t being resolved, doubting myself constantly, sickness..this month I’ve had it all.
Everyday I showed up. Everyday I did what I had to do. It might not have been pretty and it wasn’t easy, but I did it. That is what I’m choosing for progress to be.
Sometimes progress isn’t evident until later down the road; sometimes it’s inward where no one else can see. Choosing to show up for those you love, showing up for yourself, showing up when you just don’t think you can-that’s still progress.
To choose to fight another day when your boxing gloves are worn out, to choose to say another prayer and once again not receive an answer-that progress, and one day progress pays off. God is forever faithful. He will not fail you. He has not forgotten you. Keep on walking! Keep on fighting. Keep growing! Keep going! You ARE making progress. Don’t forget to give yourself grace.
I usually pick a verse for the year as well. 2020’s verse is:
But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and for ever. Amen. -2 Peter 3:18
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