Slow Growth Equals Strong Roots by Mary MarantzSample

Let Today Be the Day

There’s a good chance that the biggest lie you are telling yourself right now is this: There is no room for me. That idea you have? It’s already been done. That book you have in you? It’s already been written. That stage you want to speak on? It’s already too overcrowded.

I get it. I mean, I wrote a book about going from humble beginnings to the Ivy League. Which is literally a book that has been written at least ten different ways.

But here’s the thing. I can’t change my story. I can’t change the gifts God gave me. And I can’t change the fact that I felt like he was asking me to use both.

I could only ask myself, What does it look like for me to tell the truth here?

Let today be the day you start telling the truth. Let today be the day you start telling your story. Let today be the day you do something about that thing you can’t go a day without thinking about.

God is asking you to stop dismissing the gifts he’s given you while wishing for someone else’s. To stop hiding your story away believing it disqualifies you from what he has for you. He wants you to lean into the places he’s calling you. And to stand in unqualified awe at the miracle it is that we get to do this with him every single day for the rest of our lives.

Let this be the year you commit to showing up. To telling the truth as best you know how. You never know, it may be your voice that finally gets through to somebody.

Your story is not a mistake.

And the place where your gifts meet your story has the power to change lives. Most of all, yours.

Lord, every work you create is an original. Which means that when we are standing in the spot where our gifts meet our story, every single one of us has the ability to be a reflection of your love in this world that has never quite been seen before. I just want to sit in that for a minute, God. I don’t want to be moving so fast that I miss it. I have spent far too long missing it. What are you calling me to today? Amen.