Beloved of God

Cure for the Common Life: Living in Your Sweet Spot

There is a portion of the book that encourages you to, in a sense, go on a trip down memory lane. You’re basically using childhood aspirations as tool for learning what your career may be as an adult. This would have been a lot easier for me, if I was more open about my aspirations as a child. Instead I blocked them out and pursued what others saw as my reason for being - drawing.

I picked up the hobby from my brother; I liked the attention he got as a result of the gift (as if being the baby didn’t give me more than enough attention). So I continued to mimic him, not knowing that practice has a tendency of making you better at things. Go figure. As the years passed and my skills improved, I became known as “the one who can draw”. It’s what people knew. It’s what people expected. It’s what I lived up to. I did this for most of my life until I got tired of it.

Reading Cure for the Common Life is like detoxification for me - breaking down insecurities and instilling a sense of purpose. It’s helping me to be honest with myself and others who still only see me as the one. There is and always has been more to me than some sketch on a paper.

See your desires as gifts to heed rather than longings to suppress.  - Max Lucado

Max Lucado, Cure for the Common Life (W Publishing Group, 2005)29

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