Backside Deserts

Winston Churchill once said, “Almost every leader goes through a time of the ‘backside of the desert’ before becoming what they were made for.”  I love that quote because it’s a quote of hope and there is almost a promise in there.  But that really depends on your perspective.  You can easily read that and only focus on the ‘backside of the desert’ part of it.  You can focus on the curve balls that life has thrown you.  The empty promises, damaged relationships and obstacles that seem to impede your process.  Or you can focus on the ‘becoming what they were made for’ part of it.  You can focus on what God is doing through you and in you when you are feeling like nothing in life is going the way you want or planned.  Winston Churchill finished that quote by saying, “Sometimes this even happens after some initial, lesser success.”  I read this and think for some of you life is good but it could be great.  You have a good marriage, good relationship with your kids, a good job and a good life.  There will come a time when you feel like it may all be falling apart but that could be right before you experience what you were made for on the other side of the ‘desert’ experience.  Keep your head up and your eyes focused and stay persistent.  God is not finished making you extraodinary.