Lines

# Chapter 208

What lines are you drawing with your life? Everyone does, few recognize them. You are drawing lines in morality, you are drawing lines politically, you are drawing lines relationally, you are drawing lines in so many ways as you interact with the world. You leave these lines in your wake, visible to those who experience you and interact with you in the world, so why don’t you make a conscious decision to make them good lines? There are already so many bad lines in the world and in the sand, so draw something elaborate and beautiful and life-giving! Yeah! That sounds way more better.

But then there are those like me that truly cannot draw a straight line without a ruler or square to keep the line straight. So I am not talking about straight lines, I am talking about good lines. Lines of character and love, lines of goodness and kindness, lines of strength and hope, lines of purpose and integrity, lines of joy and peace. There are more that we could list here, but you get the idea and now you can run with it in your own life. I just wrote down the ones that I need the most and that those in my daily path need the most.

Most of all I just want to advocate the thought that we are making lines and impressions on our world, to own that and be intentional about it. The opposite can be all too easy, where we don’t have any ownership in the life we live, the lives we impact or the actions we inspire. But you were made for more than this.