Thresholds

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Friday, August 22

I’ve been thinking lately about the idea of thresholds. I heard someone say recently that the idea of a threshold is that it is the in-between of two seasons. To go from one season of life to the next, you pass through a threshold.

To pass through this threshold, you must change. You must leave things behind. Things that served you well in the previous season but will prevent you from thriving in the next season. Without this shedding, you never pass through the threshold. You constantly live in the tension of knowing that you’re still living in a season that you were supposed to, for lack of better word, graduate from.

The things you shed might be material things, it might be relationships, it might be a job, it might be fears and insecurities and old beliefs. It might be a combination of those things.

But life is full of threshold moments. Moments that demand something from us in order to move into the next season of growth. Maybe you’re in one now. And the question we must always be asking is, “What do I need to leave behind?”

You’re carrying things you were supposed to put down a long time ago. And those things are preventing you from living into your potential. Your next season is waiting. Let go of what no longer serves you.

Step into the next season with freedom.
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Keep chopping wood. 🪵🪓

-Kevin