A younger friend told me about a life crossroads, which felt weighted by conundrum. I asked, “So what’s next?” She replied, “I’m just waiting for God to show me what he wants from me.” “OK,” I said to her. “But in the meantime, until you have your life and self figured out and straightened out, I have a suggestion: Live this day, with this self, without holding back. Today; savor, doubt, embrace, question, wrestle, give, risk, love, fall down, get up, accept your incomplete and fractured self, know that anything worth doing is worth doing badly, speak from your whole heart, and whenever you can, lavish excessive compassion and mercy and healing and hope and second chances and grace and restoration and kindness on anyone who crosses your path. Who knows, we may love one another into existence. And I’m sure God won’t mind.”
