Are you a someone?

Have you ever noticed that there’s always a something before we can be a someone?

Like the becoming what we want can only follow when the something has been recorded as done?

As if the bills being paid or the project list being completed or the pinterest-worthy party being thrown or the college degree sitting in a box is going to make us into the thing we think we need to be in order to be the person others wish they could be. 

As if we can re-write history and make the purpose of mankind to be something when really the real reason Jesus came is because we are not the everything and we cannot be the everyone so he had to do the ultimate everything. 

When dawn broke I broke into a swiftly moving pace to accomplish that which was suffocating me. So much to do with a clock that plagues me with stress as the hour hands keep jumping forward and stealing time. Then, in my hurriedness I felt a soft tug on my hurried soul…

Will you let go of the something so that I can be the everything? 

Will you pause your pace to allow me to re-play in your heart who I am and how I love you so?

Will you stop your hurried clock and let me re-set your ticking soul tuned to the rhythm of my pace today? 

Because the thing is that Jesus’ pace is different than ours and the hours translate as a mystery to each other. Hour-to-hour they give the illusion of sameness but his view of time feels a lot more like moving towards eternity than tackling the something that fades with mortality. 

I heard his soft whisper and I couldn't turn from it. Because he woes us with a soft calling to lean into his warm shepherd heart which embodies all we need to be filled with what we’re parched for. Sitting with my Bible resting on my weak and weary legs, I tilted my head back and breathed in the soothing sunshine that was bursting up over the golden horizon. 

And I remembered. 

This is why the something doesn't matter. Because the something will never give me the everything. It’s the everything, found in Jesus, that gives me everything I need to face the hours with a pace of strength, love and compassion. I don’t need the racing pace of do, I need the steady pace of be. Only then will I become what I need to be - only then will I be the truest version of my someone. 

Jesus says come to me for what you really need. Come and be. And then, you will be-come. Because the cross of Jesus is the only thing recorded as done that gives us the gift of being a someone.