"Are you stuck?"

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A friend travels on business a lot and recently entertained some customers on an overnight golf trip. He and his wife usually stay in touch with each other often while he’s gone, and typically on their cell phones. His wife couldn’t reach him for about 12 hours during one trip. Now for someone who’s accustomed to speaking with her husband often while he’s gone, well, you can imagine she was near panic.

So when he called the next morning and said that the area had no cell phone reception, at first she was just relieved to know he was okay, but then she got angry. She asked, "Well do they only have tin cans and string for land lines? You could have used the room phone to call me, you know!"

Finally her husband said after a long pause, "I didn’t think of that."

Do you ever find yourself stuck in a rut of routine like my friend did? Used to doing life one way so often that you don’t consider other ways of getting something done?

Today, step outside the confines of your typical thinking. Ask God to show you some different ways of doing life as you listen to life and make a life, not just a living today.

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