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I love to travel.  I love to experience new places, new cultures, new foods, and new people.  Yet, one of my favorite parts of traveling is the airplane ride.  

For some reason, each time I look out of the window, like a little girl, I’m amazed at the wonders of God.  The clouds, the sky, the seas, creation begins to testify to me that God is indeed all-powerful.  

On my last trip, I gained a picture-perfect illustration of why many people are feeling stuck in life. 

Vantage Point

The vantage point is the perspective from which we view something.  For several reasons, our vantage points often serve as a disadvantage when measuring our progress in life. 

Here is how your vantage point has you feeling stuck in life. 

Proximity 

You are too close. 

As I looked out the window, I noticed something strange. It appeared the plane was moving slowly.  From this vantage point, there seemed to be little progression.

Of course, the average speed of a plane is over 500 mph, so my perspective was completely skewed.  This made no sense to me.  

How can I, the person with the closest view, the person inside the plane, not be able to know just how quickly the aircraft was moving?

From inside the plane, I could not see the complete picture. However, anyone outside of the plane with a different vantage point could recognize how swiftly the plane was arriving at its destination.

This scenario gives an accurate picture of what some of our lives look like.  Silently, we carry burdens on the inside, feeling like we are not progressing.  We feel like our forward movements are slow.  

Yet progression is taking place more rapidly than our visible eyesight can access. Any person on the outside looking in (different vantage point), can visibly see progress. 

Partiality 

You can only see a part of the story

Chances are you are focusing on a partial view of the journey.  

From the inside of the plane, I only had a partial view. I could only observe bits and pieces of my journey.  These bits were not enough to give me a full understanding of my progress.  Only someone with a complete view of the journey or different vantage point could do that. 

In addition to this, in our personal lives, we tend to focus on what is broken.  We look at all that is going wrong.  

• The bills are not paid.  
• Feeling rejected or overlooked. 
• Life is not falling together seamlessly.

Humanly, it’s easy to maximize our flaws, insecurities, and issues.  In the end, this behavior minimizes the progress we have made because our magnifying glass is only fixated on one portion of the map.  

Direction 

You are looking ahead. 

Understand the measurement of your progress will never be completely accurate, looking forward. 

Why? 

Well…your measuring stick is moving in the wrong direction.  It is all wrong. 

Can you imagine trying to use a ruler to measure the distance a plane should fly? That would be totally pointless because the ruler is incapable of stretching into that distance.  

This is precisely the way that we look when we try to piece the puzzle of our lives together, moving forward. It’s impossible because we do not have complete knowledge of the future. 

It is not until we look at our life in retrospect that we soon realize that feeling stuck in life was all a part of God’s process. In fact, we were learning, growing, maturing, and yes … progressing. 

You may think that you should be at a particular place in your life right now; however, God has an entirely different plan on where you should be at this moment. 

In these moments we should trust God and his purpose for us. 

Trust that God’s wisdom is infinite.  Furthermore, even God’s foolishness is wiser than any human being (1 Corinthians 1:25).  

Our standard of where we think our life should be can never compare to where God knows that we should be.  

In conclusion

I came by to remind you that you are not stuck in life. 

You are not stagnant.  

You are not failing at life. 

Instead, get dressed, take a cute selfie, and trust that God is leading your life. 

In moments when you are feeling stuck in life, remind yourself that God has a plan for your life, and it will come to pass.  

Rest in the faithfulness of God!

Until next time…

Be strong, Be Courageous, Serve God Wholeheartedly. 

Gilberta Thompson

P.S. For a long time, I was feeling stuck in life. It turns out I was smack dab in the middle of a quarter-life crisis.

In this book, I share all about how I overcame the feeling of being stuck in life.