Stop Drawing Maps You Don't Have

The afternoon sun is unforgiving. It exposes the dust on the desk and the blank space in your mind.

Someone looks at you, waiting for the map, and you feel the terrifying urge to draw a road that isn't there. To fabricate the confidence you do not possess.

To pretend you see the turn when you are standing at the edge of a cliff. But the light does not require you to be the guide who knows the way.

It only asks you to be the one who is present. Jesus looked at the crowds and saw them as sheep without a shepherd—harassed and helpless.

He did not scold them for being lost. He had compassion.

The same compassion is available to you now. You do not have to be the shepherd.

You just have to be the sheep who admits they are lost. When you stop performing the answer, the real Guide can finally step forward.

The map was never yours to draw.