I once had a boss say I was like swiss cheese. He meant that I was always taking perfectly good cheese and put holes in it. It was another way of saying “you’ve got a lot of excuses.” I’ve lived most of my life with excuses. I embraced excuses. I called it “being real” or coming to grips of “reality.” Some saw me as a guy with a “good level head.”
The truth is I really wasn’t living by faith or believing the God of the universe cared enough to make something happen. The truth is that I cared more about what people would think than believing it was possible with God and then hard work on my end.
During vacation a few weeks ago, I determined to try to break that mold for myself. You can read about it here. And the truth is that it hasn’t been easy and it’s hard to not let discouragement get me down.
I’ve also been noticing more and more people talk about excuses or say how they really don’t expect things to be very well done or attended. And I think they are right. It will never be well done or attended greatly when we go into it expecting holes and keeping our expectations down.
We shouldn’t put high expectations on what people can do because then we are trusting people and trying to seek their approval. But we should expect God to do what can do. I definitely believe that I have been a wall, or caused a fumble, or slapped the hand of God from doing some amazing things in the past.
I’ve always lived in the world of swiss cheese and low expectations. But I have a feeling and a belief that it’s not suppose to be this way.
Ever been there?
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