Shaun Groves
It’s rarely happened to me. Sometimes a situation is so difficult, so stressful, that you move (or get moved) beyond anxiety or fear to a calm so deep and overwhelming that you feel guilty for experiencing it in such a tempest. You feel lazy for not yelling “The sky is falling!” like everyone else.
That’s where I am with ‘Help Haiti Live.’ Two curve balls were thrown my way yesterday pertaining to the LA show. Doozies. All I can say is buy tickets now. Please. Buy twenty and give them away. Seriously.
When they came hurdling across the plate I immediately spiraled into self-doubt, worry, even a little anger and then the weirdest thing happened: I got perspective.
Out of nowhere I was sitting at dinner last night chewing nervously on my cheek and feeling all angsty when my mind zoomed out.
I thought about life ten years from now and what will seem important about today then. I thought 10,000 years from now too. I thought about the world – all the people, all the drama, the joys and struggles happening simultaneously.
It felt good to feel like a grain of sand on the beach. It felt good to be small, out of control, reminded that I didn’t pour the ocean and I didn’t whittle the planet from nothing and that competence is an illusion that keeps me from depending upon God’s.
No matter how stressful my life today is it’s only that: My life. Today.
There’s a lot more going on out there than me and now.
Oddly calming to be a grain of sand on Someone’s beach.
dubdynomite says:
You know, there are some people who can knock a curve ball out of the park. I’m praying you’ll find your swing.
I just wish I could do more to help.
But I will be in Nashville for the show next Saturday.
Shawn says:
I can not imagine what you may be going through with this situation, but I can identify with the grain of sand analogy.
Praying for you and this situation and that God will intervene and work it all out for His glory.
God bless you Shaun as you are working so hard on this event. Thank you for being such an inspiration.
Judy says:
Wow, Thanks for the reality check! Sometimes it seems that me and I and my is all I think about. God orchestrates things and we don’t get it, and are overwhelmed, but it’s His story. It sure puts things into perspective!
pendy says:
Oh, yes, how enlightening it can be to step back and get perspective on our wrapped-up-in-ourselves humanity. Thanks for the reminder.
Megan says:
The life-long lesson is that we’re called to faithfulness. God is responsible for the results.
Let me know when you figure out how to be ok with that all the time. I understand the principle, it’s the application that drives me crazy.
Heather B says:
Hi Shaun, I’ve been reading for a few weeks not and really love your perspective on things. Especially this one. Sometimes remembering our place in God’s universe does help. I’m glad you were given that moment in the midst of this crazy time of planning etc.
Brad Ruggles says:
Dude, your perspective on this situation is amazing. We can’t see how God sees. All we can do is everything he has called and created us to do…nothing more. Thankfully, at the end of our lives He is going to judge us based on how well we listened to what He said…not on how good we were at our jobs or what people thought of us.
From one grain of sand on the beach to another…keep on pressing on buddy!
dean says:
well, i was about to go buy tix and try to give them to some folks out in the L.A. area, but when i clicked the link, it said the show in cancelled. i’m really sorry to hear that, shaun. i guess i’ll do it for the nashville show now instead, since work prevents me from making it there either. praying for you, brother…
Meredith says:
oh good… so it’s not just me?
Very comforting. I’m not crazy. Or perhaps I am, but if everyone else is too, then normal is suddenly redefined. Great news.