MELT.
Probably not a word you’d expect for the year 2021, is it? Your first thought may be melty nacho cheese, or maybe that delicious chocolate bar that melts on your summer s’mores. Mmmmmm Although both rather delicious, I’m talking about something different.
I was chatting with a mentor yesterday about life. I scheduled with her 6 weeks ago and when my appointment came up, I admittedly could not for the life of me remember what I even wrote in my notes section. But I knew I needed to go, I didn’t really know what for, but I trusted it would come out when I got there.
We were getting deep into thought patterns, conditioning, roadblocks and barriers as she listened intently to my language as I verbally processed through life.
Bullet proof.
Armor.
Intensity.
Time.
These were all common themes throughout our talk when she stopped me in my tracks and said “have you ever just melted into it? Melted into the moment. Melted into the intensity with love and let it all just kinda run off of you? Armor is penetrable, you know.” Whoa.
You see, for the greater part of my life I thrived off of intensity, deadlines, long hours, grit and grime and blood sweat and tears. I craved it like a smoker craves nicotine. It felt weird if I wasn’t down to the wire with something. I’ve worked for the past 3 and a half years on this lifetime of conditioning, and I feel that this final layer of breaking this unhealthy pattern is close, SO close. So close it brought me to tears.
It was in that moment “Melt” became my word for 2021.
What’s even crazier? I don’t believe in coincidences. I believe at any time 2 seemingly completely unrelated events in life end up matching up, that’s when God smiles. Luke and I officially started a new development business together at the end of 2020 and when we were married on January 10, 2009, our song was…. yep, “I Melt” by Rascal Flatts. Full transparency, I don’t think either of us were 100% fully connected to the song at the time , we loved it, had a nice ring to it, but we loved it for the lyrics for each other and we loved the band. I don’t think we went out of our way to listen to it any time since. We were just young people excited to get hitched! But God knew what He was doing when we made that our song. Almost 12 years later to the day, it has even more significance than ever. And then God smiled.
So, friends, today I share the importance of melting.
Melt into your moments with love.
Ever experience those times when you catch the eye of your child or spouse and it feels like time stands still? That’s melting.
Ever experience writing your thoughts on paper and the words just seem to come to your fingertips with zero effort? That’s melting.
Ever experience reading a book and you’re so immersed a train could come through the room and you wouldn’t notice? That’s melting.
Ever experience that moment when you have 1,387 things on your list and your girlfriend needs a listening ear and you drop everything to be there? That’s melting.
Time doesn’t HAVE to be linear. Melt into your moments and watch the rest take care of itself.
Cheers,
Gretch