It’s possible to be moving very quickly and still not be going where you intended.
When something new begins — a role, a responsibility, a phase of life — momentum tends to take over. Routines settle in. Days fill themselves. What needs to be done gets done, and the machinery of life starts running more smoothly.
From the inside, this feels like progress.
The pressure shows up later. Not as failure, but as weight. Everything works, yet something feels off. The pace never really slows, but clarity does. Effort accumulates while alignment quietly erodes, and it’s hard to explain why things feel heavier than they used to.
What’s usually missed is that movement doesn’t choose direction — it only magnifies it. Speed makes whatever course you’re already on harder to change. Small misalignments, left unattended, compound not because of neglect, but because of continuity.
Before pushing harder this week, it may be worth pausing over a quieter question:
What in your life has kept moving smoothly — without being consciously chosen in a long time?
Texts for Advent Week 1
- Isaiah 35:1–6, 10
- Psalm 146:6–7, 8–9, 9–10
- James 5:7–10
- Matthew 11:2–11
Toward The Good 