What Normal?

Ever watched the movie “Meet the Robinsons”? If so you know that the slogan, if you will, of the movie is Keep Moving Forward!!! I have found it proven to me today, yet again, that when it comes to relationships you have no choice but to keep moving forward. Now when I say ‘relationships’ I don’t mean the, guy and girl meet, fall madly in love, then date until it’s no fun, then break up, kind of relationships. I mean your friends, your family, and people in the work place. The people in your life that you have to coexist with, whether it was by your own choice, or Gods plan for you. Each person in your life you have a distinct relationship with, and those relationships are always changing, epically when you’re in high school. High school is when your best friend can become your worst enemy, and guys desperately try to get out of the “friend zone,” it’s when the tenth graders are convinced that they are fully grown and the seniors just want to be kids again. It’s where you first find out what love is to some extent, whether it be by the love of your friends or family or the person you believe God wants you to marry. So with all that crazy turmoil, no wonder, us teens try to keep all our relationships in a box. Never wanting to change, scared of what might happen if we let God grow our friendships, scared of how close to people who can disappoint us we get. But relationships change with the blowing wind. And they are out of your control; there is nothing worse than someone pretending that nothing has changed when everything has, someone clinging to the delusion that all can go back to a time before. Before promises were made, before feelings were made known, before hearts were broken, before arguments and flaring tempers. The ‘before’ is done, it is etched in time, and life will never be like that again, ever. As much as we wish it could go back to the “good old days” it can’t.

I have heard the phrase “back to normal” a lot tonight; I don’t think any relationship can ever go “back”. So I have stared saying “let’s find a New Normal” and that, though crazy in concept, may have saved a few friendships that couldn’t go back they HAD to move forward. That’s what I wish everyone could understand you must move forward. It would make people think twice before they start to date, or even start deeply talking about anything, the questions everyone should ask themselves are, are you prepared for the relationship to move forward? And more importantly is it God’s plan for this relationship to move forward?

 

I am not always good at this. My track record would say that I am AWFUL at moving forward. But God has shown me that the only way I can ever find peace in any relationship is to move forward and find a new normal.

 

So let me leave you with the words of Walt Disney

“Keep Moving Forward.”