Picture this.  Walking fast, with purpose, heels clicking, boots stomping, arms swinging, confident this is the way until, wham! Smack dab into a glass door.   Surprised, head hurting I wonder “Where’d that come from?”

Or maybe this.  Walking fast, with purpose, heels clicking, boots stomping, arms swinging, confident there is no other way, but I begin bracing myself just in case the door of glass I suspect might still be there, wham!  Seriously?? I thought this approach might make a difference this time or at least crack that glass and force a break through.  

Or maybe this.  Slow and sluggish steps.  Dragging feet, head down, I’ve been down this road before, and I know what’s coming, I just can’t figure out why it’s still there.  This time though, this time I just surrender.  I just crawl up and stop at it, this time I look through the glass door.  I wonder maybe it’s not through that I’m supposed to go.  Maybe this time I should try turning my head a bit to the left or maybe right.  

And there it is.  A slight turn, an altered posture, a submission, compromise, whatever I might want to call it but as I turn my body, my mind, my attitude, my heart in a new direction.  

There it is.  

A pivot.  

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