Now is your time. Become, believe, try. Walk closely with people you love, and with other people who believe that God is very good and life is a grand adventure. Don’t spend time with people who make you feel like less that you are. Don’t get stuck in the past, and don’t try to fast-forward yourself into a future you haven’t yet earned…

Don’t get stuck. Move, Travel, Take a class, Take a risk. Walk away, Try something new. There is a season for wildness and a season for settledness, and this is neither. This season is about becoming.

 ~from Bittersweet by Shauna Niequist 

A favorite

How to Climb a Mountain

Make no mistake. This will be an exercise in staying vertical. 

Yes, there will be a view, later, a wide swath of open sky,

but in the meantime: tree and stone. If you're lucky, a hawk will

coast overhead, scanning the forest floor. If you're lucky,

a set of wildflowers will keep you cheerful. Mostly, though,

a steady sweat, your heart fluttering indelicately, a solid ache

perforating your calves. This is called work, what you will come to know,

eventually and simply, as movement, as all the evidence you need to make

your way. Forget where you were. That story is no longer true.

Level your gaze to the trail you're on, and even the dark won't stop you.

~Maya Stein