Stop Going in Circles

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Here is this week's Yearly Cycle Update.

There have been studies done where people are dropped off in the middle of nowhere and told to navigate their way out without any navigation tools. During these times the people's default tendency is to walk in circles, because they keep making small decisions that are biased in one direction more than the other. This especially happens when they are faced with obstacles that they have to navigate around. But if the people are given landmarks or tools to tell direction then they can usually find their way out. 

In life sometimes we get stuck in vicious cycles and we end up going in circles over and over, despite putting in the effort to move forward. In these times you must have something to navigate with, and I believe God's grace is meant to be the standard that we use to navigate our lives. 

To stop going in circles we must do something different and allow his grace to navigate us out. This means we must rely on and trust in him and take the pressure off of ourselves to effort and figure it out. It also means responding to other people in a beautiful, graceful way and breaking free of some old patterns. 

If you have an area where you are going in circles, here is something to start implementing. Almost always there is some trigger that is causing the circles to happen. Spend some time seeking God and meditating on how you could rely on and trust in his grace more in that area when the trigger happens, and how you could respond in a beautiful way with elegance, poise, and grace. 

I am praying for you. 

Daniel