How Did I Get Here ?

Too often we are so inordinately consumed in the everyday tasks of everyday living that we don’t raise our heads up sufficiently to figure out where we are, and in the busyness of it all, where we’re going. In essence, we’re just going. The journey becomes defined by the need of the moment, not the goal of a lifetime.

When circumstance or situation or age finally cause us to look up, we are not where we planned to be. And in both the jarring shock and thick sadness that follows, we try to figure out exactly where we are and how far away we are from the place that we’d hoped to be or thought we were. This episode suggests both tools and remedies for those who find ourselves not where we had planned to be.