When Will My Life Begin?

I’m writing this one from my new office at the white table outside the Christmas Shoppe in Liberty Square. To be clear, no one assigned this table to me— I’ve just officially decided that this is my office from here on out.

An hour ago, Rapunzel passed by my office on the Festival of Fantasy parade, singing her famous line: “When will my life begin?”

How many of you have been asking that same question for awhile now? Maybe life is going great for you, and you echo her words:

I have so many things I should be thankful for… yes, I have everything except I guess, a door... perhaps it’s better if I stay in… but I keep wondering and wondering and wondering… when will my life begin?

Do you find yourself in a consistent stream of restlessness? Maybe you dreamed your entire life of working for Disney… and now you’re here, and you still feel it. It’s that feeling when there’s nothing really wrong with your world, and yet you feel the draw to something more; something bigger.

I call this a divine restlessness, because I don’t believe it’s there by accident. Personally, I believe there’s someone greater than ourselves who wants to pull us into greater adventures— that there is a God who knows us completely and still loves us unconditionally.. and draws us toward the unknown adventure via that inward desire. The divine restlessness challenges us to “keep moving forward,” as Walt Disney famously said.

It’s when we leave the tower and begin following that restlessness into our dreams that our life starts to feel like it has truly begun.

Where do you find meaning and purpose? Do you find yourself feeling the restlessness to even greater adventures? Let me know!

Hope is the anthem,

Josh