Move Into The Stretch

Humpday Haiku

December 3, 2025

Move in a new way.

Once you’ve changed, you can do more.

Stretch. See what God has.

Have you ever been given an assignment (divine or otherwise) that no one else you’ve ever met has done before? I have. Faced with moving into an entirely different way of being, questions may come up.” How to shift? What’s the process? What’s my process? Am I nesting in this familiar place, even though it doesn’t fit anymore?” Here are two things that help me get and stay grounded.

First, relax. Brush off the mental/emotional gremlins and stop deciding what things will or should look like, and just get at it. Get comfortable with what I can do. Get comfortable with what may be uncomfortable at first, because it is new. But I am new, which means I CAN do this thing. I don’t want to stay where I have been. I am searching for more, and I’m excited to see what is possible.

Second, remember. What I need will show up. All I have to do is keep centered on progress. On forward motion. On living at a higher level for a greater purpose. Incremental steps. Incremental growth. In short order I’ll feel the flow.

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All the songs that the Holy Spirit whispers to me as I awaken in the morning for the past month or more have been reminding me that I have made it out of the place that kept me constrained, that I am new, and to give thanks and praise to the Lord for the healing reconstruction and for whatever is next. They have encouraged me to stretch myself into a new person, then relax into that new posture.

Psalms 118:17-20. (The Message Bible version)

I didn’t die. I lived! And now I’m telling the world what God did. God tested me. He pushed me hard, but He didn’t hand me over to Death. Swing wide the city gates, the righteous gates. I’ll walk through and thank God! This temple gate belongs to God, so the victors can enter and praise!

Have you stretched lately? Get comfortable finding out how powerful you are.