Today, this post marks a milestone in my ramblings here at Clay In The Hands. Next month, I will have been posting my thoughts and struggles, joys and heartaches here for five years. Today is the 800th post. So as I have thought about this post, what keeps coming to mind is the journey I have been on over these last 800 posts.
I have come to believe that we drastically overestimate the change that will come in a year, but just as drastically underestimate the change we will see in five. As leaders, we see things that need to happen and we work toward those endeavors with passion believing we will see immediate results. However, normally, as the days wear on, it seems nothing is happening. We look toward the goal and feel we are making no ground at all. It can be frustrating, draining and discouraging.
But then you hit a milestone and you turn around and look back and realize, it may not have come in a year but the distance covered in five years is astounding. I look back on where I was five years ago and to be honest, I am not sure I could have ever seen then where God has me now. God has led me these past five years – sometimes kicking and screaming – and sometimes letting me think it was my idea – but God has been with me every step of the way.
“So the point of all this is?” you may be asking. The point is that we are in the midst of a journey on The Way that should be seen as a marathon and not a sprint. Just look back at your own life. It should not be hard to realize the progress you have made over an extended period of time.
Regardless of where you are on this path, God is at work. As long as you are striving each day to be more like Jesus and to live for him, you are moving forward. Even when it may not seem there is any progress at all, God is forming you.
Stay with it.
God is faithful.
Clay in the Hands 
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