The Destination Was Never the Purpose

All of the signs and synchronicities said that it was the right thing to do, but now you can’t find the path forward.

You had the idea, the insight, and thought God wanted you to build a business around it. It felt aligned, it felt right in your bones, and everything was going smoothly. But a few months—or years—later you realized that what used to flow easily suddenly felt like tar.

You began to grip this calling more tightly and thoughts began to spiral, ‘I have to make this work.’ ‘God, how can I make this work?’ ‘What if I misunderstood?’ ‘Maybe I’m not the person to do this…’ ‘Have I wasted all this time? All this money??’

‘God, what am I supposed to do?’

It feels like you’ve let him down; that you’ve squandered what was entrusted to you.

Perhaps what you thought was a calling, a destination, was merely a portion of the journey. What would it mean if God didn’t call you to create the business you originally dreamed of? What if he called you to become someone capable of building what he envisions?

The skills, the healing, the depth and strength you’ve gained are the purpose, but you made the idea, the business, the offer into the purpose. What if your purpose is not to build something worthy of this world, but to change hearts and lives for the world ahead?

What feels like failure or giving up and pivoting is not diverging from the path God set for you, it’s realizing that this is the course you were walking all along. It’s realizing that God has something planned for you that is more sacred than you allowed yourself to see or believe.

And maybe it’s not a crossroads, but the long, winding path leading you to who you were meant to be.